Josh Curry is a partner in the Atlanta office of Lewis Brisbois and a co-chair of the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. Josh serves as lead counsel in patent, intellectual property, and technology litigation cases and is a registered patent attorney. An experienced litigator with a physics degree and considerable technical expertise, Josh helps clients effectively achieve their business goals when enforcing and defending their IP and other rights. He has served in IP and litigation leadership positions, been highly ranked by peers and publications, and represented clients in all phases of litigation and a wide range of technologies in courts and proceedings throughout the United States.
Josh’s national practice covers all aspects of IP and technology litigation and counseling, with a particular emphasis on disputes involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Josh is often called upon to handle complex and difficult cases and has a reputation for effectively resolving them. As shown on his Representative Matters page, Josh has litigated numerous cases in federal courts across the country from New York to California including multi-district litigation (MDL) matters, and cases before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), International Trade Commission (ITC), and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Josh is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also litigates cybersecurity and data privacy cases, including under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Stored Communications Act (SCA), and other statutory regimes, and complex commercial and business cases, especially cases involving technology.
Josh’s technical expertise and litigation experience is wide-ranging, including the following technologies and industries: batteries, communications systems, computer hardware and software, consumer products, digital security, e-commerce, electro-mechanical, electronics, encryption, enterprise software and systems, financial technology and banking, Internet and website, health care, laboratories, LED, manufacturing equipment and processes, complex mechanical devices and systems, mobile phones and portable electronic devices, payments, pharmaceuticals (including Hatch-Waxman litigation), and wired and wireless networking.
Recognized in the area of IP litigation by Georgia Super Lawyers from 2016 to 2021 as a “Rising Star,” and from 2021 to 2022 as a “Super Lawyer,” by Best Lawyers from 2020 to 2022 for Patent Law and Patent Litigation, and by Georgia Trend as one of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” for Intellectual Property from 2017 to 2020, Josh is regularly published and invited to speak on IP and litigation topics. Josh was previously the Chair of the Patent Committee for the IP Section of the State Bar of Georgia and currently serves on the IP Section’s Executive Committee. He also is active in other business, industry, and community groups, and he dedicates a portion of his practice to pro bono matters.
Before entering private practice, Josh was a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy of the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida and, during law school, he interned for Justice Harry Lee Anstead of the Supreme Court of Florida and in the State Attorney’s Office for the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida.