Jeff Costakos is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is a trial and appellate lawyer. He has over 20 years of experience litigating complex patent and intellectual property cases throughout the United States. Mr. Costakos has been lead counsel in dozens of patent litigations spanning technologies as diverse as DNA sequencing and micro-arrays, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, encryption, compass technology, computer algorithms, construction technology, sails and sail making, agricultural genetics, and papermaking. He has argued numerous appeals before the Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Seventh Circuits. Mr. Costakos is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and the Life Sciences Industry Team.

Mr. Costakos was trial counsel in the landmark patent damages case, Rite-Hite Corp. v. Kelley Co., Inc., which was affirmed en banc by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.