KEELEY VEGA

PARTNER

vega@turnerboyd.com
650.521.5939

• Education, Clerkships, and Languages

  • University of California, San Diego, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2005

  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2008

• Admissions

  • State Bar of California

  • United States Patent & Trademark Office

  • United States District Court, California (Northern, Central, and Southern Districts)

  • United States District Court, Texas (Eastern and Western Districts)

  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

• Publications and Presentations

  Presentations

  • Critical Lawyering Skills, Santa Clara University School of Law Adjunct Professor (2019-present)

  • Eliminating Bias: How to Tame Your Lizard Brain, Turner Boyd’s Fourth Annual California MCLE Program, Redwood City (January 2018)

  • The Prior Commercial Use Defense: Applicability, Advantages, and Disadvantages, Turner Boyd’s Third Annual California MCLE Program, Redwood City (January 2017)

  • Patent Litigation and the International Trade Commission, Boalt Hall – University of California, Berkeley School of Law (April 2016)

  • Client Management: One Size Does Not Fit All, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (March 2016)

  Publications

  • A Proposal for the Protection of Fashion Design: Knocking Off Design Patent Law, First Prize, ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition in Copyright Law, University of Michigan Law School (2008)

  • Continuous Passive Motion Applied to Whole Joints Stimulates Chondrocyte Biosynthesis of PRG4, with G.E. Nugent, T. Takara, J.K. O’Neill, S.B. Cahill, S. Görtz, T. Pong, H. Inoue, N.M. Aneloski, W.W. Wang, T.J. Klein, N.D. Hsieh-Bonassera, W.C. Bae, J.D. Burke, W.D. Bugbee, and R.L. Sah, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 15 (5), pp. 566-574 (2007)

Keeley Vega’s practice focuses on complex patent litigation and counseling. Keeley has represented plaintiffs and defendants in patent cases spanning a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, biotechnology, computer software and hardware, semiconductor design and manufacture, thermal inkjet cartridges, and e-commerce methods and systems. Keeley is skilled and experienced in all major aspects of patent litigation, including pre-filing investigations, fact and expert discovery, claim construction, summary judgment, trial preparation, trial, and post-trial proceedings. In 2022, Keeley was named to the Daily Journal Top 40 Under 40 list, which honors the top young professionals in the California legal market.

Keeley graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as the President of the Intellectual Property Students Association and was the Technology Editor for The Michigan Journal of Race & Law.

Prior to joining Turner Boyd Seraphine, Keeley was an associate with Fish & Richardson.

Keeley currently serves as the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion coordinator and is also an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she teaches Critical Lawyering Skills to 1L students.