Damon Andrew Neagle

Damon Neagle is a shareholder in Saxton & Stump’s Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Litigation groups based in the firm’s Lehigh Valley, Pa., office. He draws on more than 25 years of broad-based experience to provide clients with sophisticated, practical, and business-focused representation on IP matters.

He advises clients on the full spectrum of intellectual property issues, including:

• Portfolio strategy and management
• IP litigation
• Licensing of IP assets
• Transactional due diligence for intellectual property assets
• Worldwide patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution
• Trade dress and unfair competition
• Damon joins Saxton & Stump after 23 years of leadership at Design IP, a Lehigh Valley-based intellectual property firm. As Design IP’s managing partner, Damon led a team of IP professionals that represented Fortune 500 companies, closely held companies, emerging businesses, and individual inventors, earning a reputation for delivering practical, business-focused counsel.

Damon is a recognized leader in design patent law. He has successfully prosecuted hundreds of design patents in the U.S. and abroad and is an experienced design patent litigator. He has shaped design patent law and policy through amicus briefs in appeals of significant design patent cases and as a former chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Industrial Designs Committee. His results-driven approach and depth of experience have made him a trusted advisor to many companies on design patent issues.

Drawing on his experience and technical background, Damon can quickly and efficiently absorb complex technologies across a broad range of industries. His patent representations include confections, consumer electronics, construction equipment, composite materials, cryogenic refrigeration systems, filtration media, firearms, furniture, industrial burners and furnaces, industrial gas production, Li-ion battery technology, manufacturing equipment and controls, medical devices, military ordinance, natural gas liquefaction, optics (including helmet-mounted displays and night vision systems), sporting goods, and textile manufacturing.