Brian P. Doney

Brian is a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has experience prosecuting patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He also has experience counseling clients on intellectual property-related compliance matters, litigating a wide variety of intellectual property disputes, and representing clients in Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission.  

He previously served as an Associate with the Intellectual Property practice group of a Miami, Florida-based, full-service AmLaw 200 law firm. He also served as a Summer Associate with Calfee and as a Legal Intern for the City of Miami, Florida Office of the City Attorney.

Brian gained industry experience as a Materials Intern for the Worthington Industries Materials Lab in Columbus, Ohio, as a Program Management Intern for Covalus LLC in Nashville, Tennessee, and as a Research Assistant with the Vanderbilt Proton Exchange Membrane Lab.

Brian is a member of the Southern District of Florida and Middle District of Florida bars.

Brian earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School. During law school, he served as Assistant Rector for the Marilyn M. Keough Residence Hall and interned with the Notre Dame Intellectual Property Entrepreneurship Clinic, where he counseled local inventors, artists, and small business owners on a variety of intellectual property matters.

He earned his B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University where he was a walk-on wide receiver for Vanderbilt’s Division I Football Team and served as a volunteer Emergency Medical Responder with Vanderbilt LifeFlight.

Honors & Recognitions

• Vice Chancellor’s Scholar Athlete Award Recipient, Vanderbilt University

Education

J.D., cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School, 2021

B.E., Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2018

Experience

• Calfee is serving a multi-billion-dollar, multinational, publicly traded, Fortune 500 manufacturer for more than a decade, working with a team of in-house patent/IP counsel to handle the implementation of the client’s global IP protection objectives for all company divisions, including interfacing with Research & Development and business leaders concentrated in the United States and Europe. Specifically, Calfee oversees the drafting and prosecution of hundreds of patent applications throughout the world on behalf of the client and counsels the client on critical IP-related issues such as freedom-to-practice, trade secret strategies, and innovation harvesting.

Professional & Community

• Intellectual Property Law Society, Notre Dame Law School, Member (2018-2021)
• Marylin M. Keough Hall, University of Notre Dame, Assistant Rector (2019-2021)
• Vanderbilt Emergency Medical Society, Volunteer Emergency Medical Responder (2017-2021)
• Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout (2007-2014)