Manley Cummins is admitted to practice in Alabama and by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is practicing in Tennessee subject to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 7, Article X, Section 10.07 pending admission to practice in Tennessee.
Manley Cummins is counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property Procurement and Portfolio Management practice group.
Manley brings deep insight from his time at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where he served as a primary examiner in multiple art units. In that role, he examined hundreds of patent applications and served as a resource within his art units for subject matter eligibility issues under 35 U.S.C. § 101. His examination experience spans a broad range of technologies, including plastics molding, additive manufacturing (e.g., fused filament fabrication, fused deposition modeling, selective laser sintering and melting, electron beam melting, stereolithography, and nanoimprint lithography), composite fabrication, medical devices, tobacco compositions, and electronic cigarettes.
