A. Justin Poplin

Mr. Poplin is a registered patent attorney, and his practice focuses on both transactional and litigated intellectual property matters. He has extensive knowledge of the patent laws and regulations and spends the majority of his time assisting clients with patent issues. Mr. Poplin also has experience managing intellectual property portfolios and counseling clients regarding trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, and confidentiality issues.

In addition to being responsible for more standard patent prosecution (e.g., filing patent applications and responding to actions by the Patent and Trademark Office), Mr. Poplin has prepared and conducted inter partes and ex parte reexaminations, prepared and conducted broadening and narrowing reissues, and has been involved with interferences. In litigated matters, Mr. Poplin's practice is often directed to technical aspects of patent rights. He has served as the only registered patent attorney actively involved in various patent infringement cases and has been part of large teams of registered patent attorneys in other cases.

Mr. Poplin has aided clients with obtaining patents, enforcing patents, licensing patents, and avoiding patent infringement in a wide range of technologies, and he is currently responsible for prosecuting and maintaining hundreds of patent matters. 

Example technologies include advertising systems and methods; agricultural devices and methods; aircraft parts; alcohol monitors; alternative-fuel engines; animal husbandry devices and methods; automobile suspensions; beds; computer software; drilling equipment; education devices and systems; electricity generation and storage devices; exhaust equipment; fertilizers; game and sporting equipment; hair accessories; handbags; hardware; hydraulic lifting devices; jewelry; kitchenware; medical devices, systems, and accessories; pharmaceutical dispensing equipment; plumbing devices; pneumatic conveyors; point-of-sale labels; power tools; shipping parcels; shoes; skis and snowboards; structural building components; theft-deterring devices; trailers; welding systems and methods; and wheelchair accessories.

Court Memberships

• Georgia
• Kansas
• Missouri
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honors

• Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s “IP Stars,” 2013
• Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers “Rising Stars,” 2012
• Pi Tau Sigma National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
• Order of the Engineer
• Order of Omega National Honor Society
• Golden Key International Honor Society
• Numerous merit scholarships, including: UGA Law School Scholarship; Summerfield Scholarship; N.T. Veatch Scholarship; Long Scholarship; Robert M. Carey Scholarship; Wesley G. Cramer Scholarship; Mechanical Engineering Department Award; Chemical Engineering Department Award

Professional Affiliations

• Kansas Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section Executive Committee Member 2010-2011; Intellectual Property Section President, 2009-2010; Intellectual Property Section President Elect, 2008-2009; Intellectual Property Section Secretary/Treasurer, 2007-2008
• The Missouri Bar  
• Georgia Bar Association 

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• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Publications

• Gerald M. Kraai and A. Justin Poplin, National Law Journal, Royalties for infringement before a patent issues, October 2011
• Author, America’s New Patent System - An Overview of the America Invents Act, October 2011
• Author, Avoiding False Patent Marking Claims, Law360, October 9, 2009 (cited by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the influential case Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co., 590 F.3d 1295, 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2009))
• Author, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) Trends, KBA IP Section Newsletter, Spring 2009
• Author, The Rule Against Recapture in Reissues:  An Interpretation of Ex Parte Eggert, 86 JPTOS 972, 2004