Stanley B. Kita is a partner of Howson & Howson, LLP, having been with the firm since 1967. Mr. Kita has been lead attorney in over 75 Intellectual Property (IP) cases in the federal district and appellate courts in the United States. These IP cases involved patent, trademark/unfair competition, and copyright matters. He was trial and appellate counsel in Cover v. Hydramatic Packaging Co., 38 USPQ2d 1783 (Fed. Cir. 1996), which was a case of first impression that established the relationship between federal patent law and state commercial law principles pertaining to the patent indemnification provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code. He has also handled numerous inter partes administrative proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; has served as federal master in a post-trial patent damages proceeding; and has been an AAA arbitrator.

Mr. Kita has written and prosecuted patent applications for a wide variety of mechanical inventions in over 40 years with the firm.  He has obtained industry significant patents on the propeller coupling mechanism for the V-22 Osprey aircraft (Patent No. 4,804,352); on the autoclavable, non-lubricated high speed dental handpiece (Patent No. 4,966,552) and on the first commercially successful hot-fillable grip bottle (Patent No. 5,392,937).

Admitted

1967, Pennsylvania; 1969, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education and Associations

Temple University, J.D., 1966; Drexel University, B.S.M.E., 1962

Member: Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association; Bucks County Bar Association.

Practice Areas

Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Intellectual Property Law.