Duane Morris Welcomes Two IP Attorneys to Its Houston Office; Additions Expand the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice

January 16, 2008

HOUSTON, January 16, 2008 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to welcome Thomas Sankey and Gregory Luck to the firm's Houston office as partners in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. The addition of these lawyers furthers the firm's commitment to its intellectual property practice, which has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last four years.

Thomas Sankey, formerly of Thompson & Knight, has extensive intellectual property and commercial litigation experience, focusing on patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, unfair competition, employer/employee disputes and the Lanham Act. Sankey has represented inventors, medical supply companies, medical R&D companies, electronic device companies and others. He also is Board Certified in the area of Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

He has also handled appeals before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court as well as Texas Courts of Appeal and the Texas Supreme Court.

Sankey received his J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 1986 and received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee in 1983.