Overview
P. Stephen Fardy is an equity partner who focuses his practice on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Stephen has a national practice representing entities ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. He litigates matters involving trademarks, trade dress, unfair trade practices, copyrights, patents, right of publicity and privacy issues, as well as complex commercial fraud, contracts and other business disputes. Stephen also handles proceedings with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, prosecutes trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and further manages an extensive trademark docket of over 1,000 national and international trademarks. Finally, he handles licensing and provides counseling regarding intellectual property issues.
- International Trademark Association
- Chicago Bar Foundation Investing in Justice Campaign, Firm Co-Chair, 2015
- Law Bulletin Media, “Leading Lawyers,” (2018-2021, 2023-2025)
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, “Then and Now” series as previous “40 Under Forty” honorees, (2019)
- Jury Verdict Reporter, “Trial Lawyer Excellence Award,” (2015)
- Featured on the cover of Chicago Lawyer Magazine for success in Intellectual Property practice, October 2015 Issue
- Law Bulletin Media, “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch”, (2009)
- Illinois Super Lawyers®, “Rising Star”
- Intellectual Property, (2008-2009)
- “More than just source code qualifies as trade secrets,” Intellectual Property Magazine, September 2014
- “Feet of Clay: How the Right of Publicity Exception Undermines Copyright Act Preemption,” 12 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 444, 2004
- Business Logic Holding Corporation v. Ibbotson Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. and Morningstar, Inc., No. 2009 CH 46687. Obtained a State of Illinois record $61 million trade secret settlement for a plaintiff software company in 2014.
