Reggie Hill represents companies in high-stakes intellectual property litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. He is a highly accomplished trial lawyer who also draws on a decade of experience as an electrical engineer to help global automotive, technology, and electronics companies assert their IP rights or defend against IP claims.
Often handling a client’s most complex technology issues, Reggie serves as lead counsel in bench and jury trials, appeals, PTAB trials, Markman hearings, and arbitrations. With his combination of litigation knowledge, trial skill, and ability to assess complex technology, his insight helps clients survey possible forums and understand how their issues may be received by courts, juries, and the US Patent Office. Reggie is known for his particular ability to try cases in multiple forums, fighting hard for the best possible outcomes in patent infringement cases in district courts, the patent office, and the Federal Circuit.
Reggie’s experience includes more than 25 years defending and asserting his clients’ rights to innovations across computers, digital communications, the internet, and emerging technologies. Before practicing law, he spent a decade designing computers for AT&T and working on digital video and audio applications and architectures for Motorola.
When handling deeply complex technology issues, I seek to accomplish my clients’ goals efficiently by assessing their technology and using my trial skills to understand how those issues might be received, whether in court or before the US Patent Office.
Credentials
Service / Recognition
Overview
Reggie Hill represents companies in high-stakes intellectual property litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. He is a highly accomplished trial lawyer who also draws on a decade of experience as an electrical engineer to help global automotive, technology, and electronics companies assert their IP rights or defend against IP claims.
Often handling a client’s most complex technology issues, Reggie serves as lead counsel in bench and jury trials, appeals, PTAB trials, Markman hearings, and arbitrations. With his combination of litigation knowledge, trial skill, and ability to assess complex technology, his insight helps clients survey possible forums and understand how their issues may be received by courts, juries, and the US Patent Office. Reggie is known for his particular ability to try cases in multiple forums, fighting hard for the best possible outcomes in patent infringement cases in district courts, the patent office, and the Federal Circuit.
Reggie’s experience includes more than 25 years defending and asserting his clients’ rights to innovations across computers, digital communications, the internet, and emerging technologies. Before practicing law, he spent a decade designing computers for AT&T and working on digital video and audio applications and architectures for Motorola.
When handling deeply complex technology issues, I seek to accomplish my clients’ goals efficiently by assessing their technology and using my trial skills to understand how those issues might be received, whether in court or before the US Patent Office.
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Admissions
- Illinois, 1994
Education
- The John Marshall Law School, JD, cum laude; Order of The John Marshall;The John Marshall Dean's Scholarship; Giles S. Rich Patent Moot Court Competition Regional Semi-Finalist, 1994
- Georgia Institute of Technology, MSEE, 1985
- Tuskegee Institute, BSEE, Highest Honors, National Merit Achievement Scholarship; National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarship; NCR Scholarship; Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society; Kappa Alpha Psi Southern Province Award, 1984
Court Admissions
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2001
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2004
- US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2004
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1994
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), 1998
- US District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2008
- US Patent and Trademark Office, 1995
Service / Recognition
Awards
- Best Lawyers in America, Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent; Patent Law, 2024
- Chambers USA, Intellectual Property (Illinois), 2021-2023
- Chicago Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, Whitney M. Young, Jr. Service Award, 2012
- Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago's Notable Minority Lawyers, 2018
- Glenn T. Johnson Chapter, Black Law Students Association, The John Marshall Law School Legacy of Opportunity Award, 2008
- Illinois Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property, 2008-2024
- Managing Intellectual Property, Patent Star, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Who's Who in Black Chicago Chicago's, Counselors at Law, 2007
- Co-Inventor, US Patent Nos. 6,157,989 and 6,721,701
Community
- Boy Scouts of America, Advisor, Legal Explorer Post, 1995-999
- Chicago Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, Board of Directors, 2008-2014
- Chicago Recovery Alliance, Pro Bono Counsel, 1997-present
- Chicago Scholars, Board of Directors, 2008-present
- Tuskegee National Alumni Association, Financial Secretary, 2016-18
Service to the Bar
- American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, Seventh Circuit Reporter, 1994-1998
- American Intellectual Property Law Association, Diversity Liaison, Corporate Practice Committee, 2002
- Cook County Bar Association
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Illinois Board of Admissions, Member, 1st District Character and Fitness Committee
- Illinois State Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section Council, Chair, 2001-2002, Vice-Chair, 2000-2001, Secretary, 1999-2000, Associate Newsletter Editor, 2008-2009
- National Bar Association
- Northern District of Illinois Local Patent Rules Committee, Advisory Group, 2017-2018
- PTAB Bar Association
