News
May 29, 2009
Stephanie D. Scruggs
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Shareholder
Areas of Concentration
Intellectual Property: IP litigation and transactional work
Office
Boston – (May 29, 2009) – Hanify & King, Professional Corporation announced today that attorney Stephanie Scruggs has been named a firm shareholder. Scruggs is an accomplished intellectual property attorney practicing in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She joined the firm as an associate in April 2008 when the firm’s Washington D.C. practice was founded.
“Stephanie is a rising star at Hanify & King and we are pleased to announce her promotion to shareholder,” said Jim King, founder and shareholder of Hanify & King and leader of the firm’s D.C. office. “Stephanie’s hard work, dedication and undeniable smarts have been an asset to the firm since she joined us more than a year ago. We know all that she has to offer and are confident that she will continue to provide Hanify & King clients with superior service and unmatched expertise.”
Scruggs represents clients in a variety of intellectual property matters. She is primarily focused on patent litigation, patent prosecution, and product clearance and patent validity opinions, but also has extensive experience in trademark prosecution and counseling, patent licensing, and due diligence associated with IP transfers. She represents both U.S. and foreign-based clients in a variety of industries including the chemical, biochemical, pharmaceutical, medical devices and mechanical arenas. Scruggs regularly appears before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In addition, she has been involved with intellectual property cases in the Federal Courts in Virginia, Massachusetts and Delaware, and the International Trade Commission.
Prior to law, Scruggs consulted for major global process industry clients in project system capital effectiveness and project feasibility evaluations for projects ranging from $500,000 to $2 billion. Clients included Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, consumer products, petroleum and heavy industrial arenas. Scruggs also conducted research on biological warfare agents and biosensors with the Naval Research Laboratories in Washington, D.C. She has co-authored numerous articles on biosensors, silane stability and array photopatterning.
Scruggs holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mississippi and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, respectively. She received her Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law. She resides in Vienna, Virginia with her husband and three daughters.
About Hanify & King, PC
Since 1980, Hanify & King Professional Corporation has been delivering effective, practical and cost-effective solutions to the legal needs of commercial enterprises and business people. The firm’s principal areas of practice are litigation, reorganization, corporate finance, financial restructuring, IP and IP litigation and employment. More info at www.hanify.com.
