Cory C.Davis
Partner
Intellectual Property
ccdavis@seyfarth.com
Cory provides thoughtful and insightful counsel, helping clients protect their patent portfolios and pursue their objectives.
More About Cory
Cory concentrates on procuring and protecting intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management, and providing patent infringement and validity studies. As a former engineer with Fortune 500 companies, Cory uses his real-world experience, coupled with practical legal knowledge, to counsel clients on their technological innovations and the challenges clients face in the 21st century.
- JD, University of Georgia School of Law
Cum laude
Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law, articles editor - BS, University of Alabama
Magna cum laude
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- United States Patent and Trademark Office - Registered Patent Attorney
Related Services
- Procures IP rights in innovative fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented reality (AR), and the metaverse.
- Procures IP rights and performs infringement analysis for an international cellular telephone and wireless telecommunications corporation.
- Procures IP rights on behalf of various clients in the areas of geolocation tracking, vehicle-fleet management, unmanned vehicles, cargo aircraft, and shipping logistics technology.
- Counsels clients on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) regulations.
- Counsels health care clients in securing IP rights involving health care software tools and medical devices, such as imaging components for detecting regions of interest in the human body.
- Managed patent portfolio of an international appliance company involving technologies related to ovens, washers, dryers, and water pumps, to name a few.
- Counsels clients on matters involving the applicability of patent portfolios to telecommunications standards.
- Prepares patentability, noninfringement, and invalidity opinions in electrical, computer, and mechanical-related technologies.
- Prepares due diligence intellectual property investigations related to acquisitions of companies and patent portfolios.
- Performs litigation support for intellectual property cases involving wireless communications.
Related News & Insights
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Recognition
Dec 1, 2025
Cory Davis Named to Georgia Trend's 2025 Legal Elite List for Intellectual Property Law
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Media Mentions
08/04/2025
Cory Davis’s Move to Seyfarth Prominently Featured in Managing IP, Law360, and Daily Report
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Firm News
08/04/2025
Seyfarth Extends IP Patent Capabilities by Adding Experienced AI-Authority Partner Cory Davis in Atlanta
- Listed in Georgia "Super Lawyers" (Thomson Reuters) (2020-2026)
- Recognized as Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine for Intellectual Property Law (Morris Communications) (2019, 2020, 2022-2025)
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Intellectual Property: Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2023)
- Leadership Georgia Class of 2022
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity: Fellow (2018)
- Named to the Top 100 by The National Black Lawyers
- Intellectual Property Owners Association, US Patent Law Committee
- State Bar of Georgia: Intellectual Property Section, Patent Committee
- State Bar of Georgia: Entertainment & Sports Law Section
- Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court
- Atlanta Bar Association: Intellectual Property Law Section
- Technology Association of Georgia
- Law360, Intellectual Property Editorial Board (2021)
- 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.
- TI-GER Program: Legal mentor to graduate students as part of a joint education initiative with Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
- Counsels clients on patent matters through the Georgia PATENTS pro bono program
Cory provides thoughtful and insightful counsel, helping clients protect their patent portfolios and pursue their objectives.
More About Cory
Cory concentrates on procuring and protecting intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management, and providing patent infringement and validity studies. As a former engineer with Fortune 500 companies, Cory uses his real-world experience, coupled with practical legal knowledge, to counsel clients on their technological innovations and the challenges clients face in the 21st century.
- JD, University of Georgia School of Law
Cum laude
Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law, articles editor - BS, University of Alabama
Magna cum laude
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- United States Patent and Trademark Office - Registered Patent Attorney
Related Services
- Procures IP rights in innovative fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented reality (AR), and the metaverse.
- Procures IP rights and performs infringement analysis for an international cellular telephone and wireless telecommunications corporation.
- Procures IP rights on behalf of various clients in the areas of geolocation tracking, vehicle-fleet management, unmanned vehicles, cargo aircraft, and shipping logistics technology.
- Counsels clients on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) regulations.
- Counsels health care clients in securing IP rights involving health care software tools and medical devices, such as imaging components for detecting regions of interest in the human body.
- Managed patent portfolio of an international appliance company involving technologies related to ovens, washers, dryers, and water pumps, to name a few.
- Counsels clients on matters involving the applicability of patent portfolios to telecommunications standards.
- Prepares patentability, noninfringement, and invalidity opinions in electrical, computer, and mechanical-related technologies.
- Prepares due diligence intellectual property investigations related to acquisitions of companies and patent portfolios.
- Performs litigation support for intellectual property cases involving wireless communications.
Related News & Insights
-
Recognition
Dec 1, 2025
Cory Davis Named to Georgia Trend's 2025 Legal Elite List for Intellectual Property Law
-
Media Mentions
08/04/2025
Cory Davis’s Move to Seyfarth Prominently Featured in Managing IP, Law360, and Daily Report
-
Firm News
08/04/2025
Seyfarth Extends IP Patent Capabilities by Adding Experienced AI-Authority Partner Cory Davis in Atlanta
- Listed in Georgia "Super Lawyers" (Thomson Reuters) (2020-2026)
- Recognized as Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine for Intellectual Property Law (Morris Communications) (2019, 2020, 2022-2025)
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Intellectual Property: Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2023)
- Leadership Georgia Class of 2022
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity: Fellow (2018)
- Named to the Top 100 by The National Black Lawyers
- Intellectual Property Owners Association, US Patent Law Committee
- State Bar of Georgia: Intellectual Property Section, Patent Committee
- State Bar of Georgia: Entertainment & Sports Law Section
- Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court
- Atlanta Bar Association: Intellectual Property Law Section
- Technology Association of Georgia
- Law360, Intellectual Property Editorial Board (2021)
- 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.
- TI-GER Program: Legal mentor to graduate students as part of a joint education initiative with Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
- Counsels clients on patent matters through the Georgia PATENTS pro bono program