Jeffrey N. (Jeff) Costakos

Jeffrey N. (Jeff) Costakos

Jeff Costakos is a partner with Foley & Lardner and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.

Mr. Costakos is a trial and appellate lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience litigating complex patent and intellectual property cases. Mr. Costakos has been lead counsel in dozens of patent litigations spanning technologies as diverse as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, encryption, compass technology, computer algorithms, construction technology, sails and sail making, agricultural genetics, and papermaking. He has argued numerous appeals before the Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Seventh Circuits.

Mr. Costakos was trial counsel in the landmark patent damages case, Rite-Hite Corp. v. Kelley Co., Inc., which was affirmed en banc by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Costakos is an adjunct professor at the Marquette University Law School, where he teaches Intellectual Property Litigation.

A graduate of the Ohio State University (B.S., mathematics, 1985) and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary (J.D., 1988), he is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Seventh and Federal Circuits, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.