Lloyd G. Farr is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Atlanta where his practice focus includes intellectual property litigation, strategic intellectual property management and development, patent infringement and validity analyses, and licensing. Mr. Farr has extensive experience in developing intellectual property portfolios and counseling clients regarding patents in the areas of electronics, radio frequency identification systems, business methods and software, mechanical systems, tools, automation systems, electrical testing, optics, communications systems and electromagnetics.  In addition to his practice in U.S. patent infringement litigation, Mr. Farr has worked extensively with clients involved in European opposition matters. Mr. Farr is registered to practice before the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia and the District of South Carolina.

Mr. Farr is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the South Carolina Bar. He is the author of Sega v. Accolade: Another Generation of Computer Copyright Cases Has Growing Pains, 27 GA. L. Rev. 903 (1993). Mr. Farr is a member of the American Bar Association, the Atlanta Lawyers Association, the Carolina Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association, and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. He is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Atlanta Bar Association.

In 1994, Mr. Farr earned a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law where he was inducted into The Order of the Coif. During law school, Mr. Farr was a member of the Georgia Law Review and received the Bryant T. Castellow Memorial Scholarship, an American Jurisprudence Award, and a West Academic Award. In 1990, Mr. Farr earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, with highest honors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a President's Scholarship.

Representative U.S. Cases

• Supply Chain Finance Systems, LLC v. Bank of America, et al. – Represented defendant in patent infringement litigation related to supply chain financing systems.
• 820 Technologies, LLC d/b/a Valid Systems v. Chexar Networks, Inc. –Represented Defendant in patent infringement litigation relating to payment systems.
• Gilbarco Inc. v. Franklin Electric Co., Inc. et al. – Represented Plaintiff in patent infringement litigation relating to gasoline dispensers and vapor recovery systems.
• Swisher International, Inc. v. Jontae Green and Swissher’s Farbetter Records, LLC – Represented Plaintiff in trademark infringement case.
• Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing Company and Power Tool Holders  Incorporated. v. Shandong Weida Machinery Co. Ltd., One World Technologies, Inc., and Techtronic Industries Co., Ltd.-  Represented Plaintiffs in patent infringement litigation relating to drill chucks.
• Stephen C. Baer v. Leica Microsystems, Inc. and Leica Microsystems, GmbH - Represented Defendants in patent infringement litigation relating to super-resolution confocal microscopes.
• Paul N. Ware and Systems Innovation, L.L.C. v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. et al - Represented Defendant in patent infringement litigation relating to computer methods.
• Santronics, Inc. v. Fluke Corporation - Represented Defendant in patent infringement litigation relating to electronic test equipment.
• Easco Hand Tools, Inc. v. The Stanley Works and Hi-Five Products Developing Co., Ltd.  - Represented Plaintiff in trademark infringement litigation relating to hand tools.
• Veeder-Root Co., Gilbarco, Inc. and Vapor Systems Technologies, Inc. v. Healy Systems, Inc. - Represented Plaintiffs in patent infringement litigation relating to gasoline dispensers.
• Touchcom Inc. and Touchcom Technologies Inc. v. Gilbarco, Inc. - Represented Defendant in patent infringement litigation relating to fuel dispensing systems and related software.
• U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation No. 337-TA-483 in the matter of Certain Tool Handles, Tool Holders, Tool Sets and Components thereof - Represented Defendants in ITC patent infringement litigation relating to tools. 
• Allen-Pal, LLC v. Danaher Tool Group and Danaher Corporation - Represented Defendants in patent infringement litigation relating to tools.
• Easco Hand Tools, Inc., Armstrong Tools, Inc., Kingsley Tools Inc., Lea Way Hand Tool Corporation, and Matco Tools Corporation v. Hu, Hou-Fei a/k/a Bobby Hu - Represented Plaintiffs in patent infringement litigation relating to tools.