Brenda Holmes is the Co-Leader of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Electronics and Software Practice Group. She focuses her practice on patent strategy and analysis for international and domestic companies. Ms. Holmes assists clients in identifying and patenting key innovations, developing domestic and international patent strategies, and building and managing their portfolios. Ms. Holmes advises clients on potential patent infringement issues and prepares invalidity and non-infringement opinions. Ms. Holmes also represents companies in licensing negotiations, patent reissue and reexamination proceedings, and analyzes patents in litigation.

Ms. Holmes has counseled clients in a wide variety of industries, including software, telecommunications, computer systems, wireless systems, signal processing, electronic commerce, and vehicle components. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Holmes was an engineer with IBM, working in the areas of system development and memory controller chip design.

Ms. Holmes was recognized as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" for Intellectual Property Law in 2008 and most recently in 2012 and 2013 by SuperLawyers magazine. She was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Intellectual Property Law in 2013 and each of the two years immediately preceding. Ms. Holmes is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies. 

Professional & Community Activities

American Bar Association, Member

American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, Member

Japan America Society of Georgia, Member

State Bar of Florida, Member

State Bar of Georgia, Member

Women in Technology, Board of Directors, President

Florida Law Review, Associate Editor 

Education

  • University of Florida College of Law, J.D. (1993)
    high honors, Order of the Coif
  • Florida Atlantic University, M.S., Computer Engineering (1988)
  • University of Florida, B.S., Electrical Engineering (1984)
    with honors

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia (1997)
  • Florida (1993)

Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1996)

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Fully engaged means listening to our clients, working with them to develop a strategy and then executing the strategy to obtain meaningful results.

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Brenda O. Holmes

Experience Highlights

Patent prosecution and licensing matters for Emageon Inc.
Represented Emageon Inc., a publicly traded provider of healthcare-related, dynamic user interface technologies and software for managing medical more
Patent counseling for one of the world's leading providers of lighting fixtures
Represents one of the world's leading providers of lighting fixtures and related products and services by reviewing and assessing the strength of more
Patent portfolio for technology company that optimizes Internet routing
Represents a company that develops technology for optimizing routing and content delivery across the Internet to implement a strategy for managing more
Patent prosecution and counseling for CardioMEMS Inc.
Represents CardioMEMS, a medical device company that has developed and is commercializing a proprietary wireless sensing and communication technology more