George C. Summerfield

George Summerfield is a litigation expert and Partner at K&L Gates, in the US. George had served as first chair patent litigator in several dozen intellectual property litigation matters before district courts and the ITC. He has also served as amici counsel for numerous universities and university-related organizations in intellectual property matters pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. George has more than 30 years of patent litigation experience, including matters in district court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the European Patent Office. George holds a B.A., King’s College, 1983 and a J.D., from Wayne State University Law School, 1987.