KIM LAHEY - Key Persons
Tony Nolte is not licensed to practice law in South Carolina. He is Licensed to practice law in Texas.
Job Titles:
- Attorney Charleston Office
B C Killough has counseled businesses and professionals for over 30 years. His experience, business training and education provide him with the tools to facilitate deals, solve problems and protect assets. As a registered patent attorney, Killough has obtained more than 350 United States patents for clients, participated in prosecuting more than 100 foreign patent applications and filed more than 1500 trademark applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of his clients. In addition, he has obtained numerous foreign trademark registrations for clients and his foreign patent work includes participation in contested proceedings before the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office. B C Killough formerly served as an adjunct professor, teaching patent law, at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Education / Duke University
Job Titles:
- Intellectual Property Paralegal
- Paralegal
Casey Martens has served both as an intern and a paralegal in a wide variety of legal areas - from product liability to probate - from the SC Department of Health and Environment to the US District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Job Titles:
- Attorney Greenville Office
Doug Kim, a Physics major from Davidson College, began his professional career as a computer programmer and software engineer. His intellectual property career began in 1998 when he combined his business experience with his legal education and was involved with enforcing a client's patent against multiple infringers. Since then, Doug has created a well-rounded IP practice that provides legal solutions and strategies tailored to each client from multinational corporations to start-ups. Doug provides his client with strategies to protect inventions (patents), brands (trademarks), websites, software, apps, music, photos, and websites (copyright, licenses, and Internet law), and trade secret (the "secret sauce"). Through the creation of intellectual property rights and their enforcement, Doug seeks to develop legal strategies that fit clients' business goals and increase the company's worth. Doug also assists clients with drafting, negotiating, and reviewing license, assignment, independent contractor, and employment agreements as they pertain to intellectual property and ownership. Doug's business background and legal education and experience make him well suited to understand the interaction between the legal services available to a client, a company's available resources, and the client's business goals.
Doug Kim's intellectual property experience spans many client types and industries from multinational companies to state and county governments to startups and new ventures, a sampling of the industries where Doug has experience include advanced materials, consumer products, software development, data privacy, data security, manufacturing, medical devices, healthcare, sporting goods, boats, kayaks and paddleboards, retail, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), books, music, product packaging, and distribution.
Awards
Named, Best Lawyers® Trademark Lawyer of The Year, Greenville (2022)
Named, Best Lawyers® Patent Lawyer of The Year, Greenville (2019)
Named, Legal Elite of the Upstate, Greenville Business Magazine (2015 - 2021)
Named, The Best Lawyers in America© (2016-2022)
Listed, South Carolina Super Lawyers®, Top Rated Intellectual Property Attorney (2017-2023)
Named, "IP Star," Managing Intellectual Property magazine (2015-2016)
Experience Highlights
Emily Bohan holds many titles: Attorney. Franchise Owner. Business Leader. Mentor. Mediator. Triathlete. Coach.
Emily Bohan focuses her legal practice on franchise law, business formation and organizations (Including LLC's and Partnerships), and labor and employment matters. And when businesses are in a dispute, Emily serves as a certified mediator, to assist parties to come to a resolution outside of the courtroom.
Job Titles:
- Attorney Greenville Office
Renee Contreras is a key member of our client support team as an intellectual property paralegal and administrator for our Charleston, SC office. Renee has worked as a legal professional since 1990 and has worked with B.C. Killough and Ernest Lipscomb since 2013. Renee provides managerial and legal support for corporate, civil and intellectual property matters. She has extensive experience managing intellectual property caseloads, following each matter from initial draft to maintenance of patents and trademarks/service marks both foreign and domestic. In addition, Renee manages the docketing for all intellectual property and litigation matters for the Charleston office.
Renee is a South Carolina Notary.
When not at the office, Renee Contreras enjoys spending time with her husband, children and grandchildren and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as a volunteer for Carolina Children's Charity.
Job Titles:
- Attorney Greenville Office
Seann Lahey's practice seeks to provide comprehensive and integrated legal services for companies whose products or services are technical in nature. Seann moved to Greenville in 2000, where he counsels clients in all aspects of intellectual property law and looks to develop client-centric strategies for companies to focus their intellectual property and build strong IP portfolios that maximize market value. Seann has extensive experience dealing with international and U.S. patent prosecution. His practice also regularly includes dealing with trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing of intellectual property rights, and rendering legal opinions on validity, infringement and enforceability of intellectual property rights, as well as litigation involving intellectual property rights.
Seann Lahey's practice involves advising startups, middle market companies, multinational corporations, universities, and individuals alike on various intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies. Seann has worked across a range of technologies and industries including automotive, agriculture, biotech, composite technology, construction, education, manufacturing, medical, and others. Seann's experience at dealing with clients of any size across a range of diverse industries makes him well suited to understand the interaction between the legal services available to a client, a company's available resources and the client's business goals.
Awards
Named, Legal Elite of the Upstate, Greenville Business Magazine (2014 - 2021)
Named, South Carolina Super Lawyers Top Rated Intellectual Property Attorney, Greenville, SC metro
Experience Highlights
Job Titles:
- Intellectual Property Docket Manager
- Owner and Instructor of Definite Defense