Our Attorneys

Meredith Martin Addy
Co-founder & Partner

Co-founder of AddyHart P.C., Meredith is a deeply experienced intellectual property litigator. She specializes in cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in US district courts, and at the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Robert P. Hart
Co-founder & Partner

Co-founder of AddyHart, P.C., Robert has more than 25 years’ experience in private practice and as in-house counsel. He represents companies through all phases of their growth and development, handling both routine and complex corporate and intellectual property issues.

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Chad Pannell

Charles A. Pannell III
Partner

Chad has more than 18 years’ experience as outside counsel, most recently at an AmLaw 100 firm. He focuses his practice on technology litigation and intellectual property disputes involving patent, trade secrets, trademarks, false advertising, and copyrights.

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Benjamin Cappel
Partner

Ben has extensive experience in patent law and litigation across a range of industry sectors, and including litigations in US district courts, at the Federal Circuit, in the PTAB and at the US ITC. He was formerly senior counsel to the YMCA of the U.S.A.

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Gregory B. Gulliver
Partner

Greg is a patent attorney and a founding member of AddyHart P.C. His intellectual property practice is focused on complex patent prosecution and patent-related client counseling.

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Caren Yusem Sterne
Counsel

Caren has experience in trials and settlements for IP disputes in the US and Europe, including resolving patent litigation matters for small and large businesses. She also has 20 years of experience in product development and marketing.

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Paul Tauger

Senior Counsel

Paul has extensive experience litigating a range of cases before US district courts in more than a dozen states, before the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in US Courts of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and Eleventh Circuits.

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Craig McLaughlin
Senior Counsel

An accomplished trial lawyer and patent attorney, Craig has litigated a wide variety of cases from inception through trial and beyond, in state and federal courts including against the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

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Our Staff

Sue Tucker
Litigation Paralegal

Sue Tucker joined AddyHart P.C. in September 2019 with 20+ years of legal experience as a paralegal in civil litigation, including in insurance defense, product liability, property damage, labor and employment, and personal injury cases, and in other commercial litigation.

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