Debra J. McComas

International litigation. Applying her expansive knowledge of cross-border jurisdictional issues, Ms. McComas advises lending institutions on strategies for obtaining and enforcing judgments against foreign nationals both in the United States and abroad, including representation of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in international efforts to collect a more than $140 million judgment against a group of Indonesian companies.

Intellectual property. Ms. McComas is actively involved in intellectual property litigation, assisting in preservation in the trial court and participating in numerous appeals to the United States Federal Circuit. Ms. McComas was part of the trial team that recently obtained a judgment of non-infringement for Viewpointe Archive Services, LLC, a company accused of joint infringement of check-imaging technology. Further, as a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association's model patent jury charge sub-committee, Ms. McComas was actively involved in drafting the current Federal Circuit Bar Association's Model Patent Jury Charge.