Invent, Protect, EnforceTM
The Difference is Experience™
Each member of our team is an experienced professional having a medical, scientific, software, or engineering degree. Several have advanced degrees. Each also has experience working in the medical, scientific, software or engineering fields. The language skills of our team include French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian and Swedish.
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Our registered patent attorneys have a variety of experience in numerous complex litigations involving patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters in front of various courts and the US ITC. In fact, one of our attorneys has been successful defending several infringement cases in the somewhat notorious Eastern District of Texas. Our attorneys have experience with cases both big and small, including litigation where the damages range up to $100,000,000. One of our attorneys was previously part of an elite group of intellectual property attorneys that were known for conducting an intellectual property litigation and licensing campaign that collected over one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) for the intellectual property owner.
Our team has experience preparing patent applications in a wide variety of fields including food, drugs, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals, electronics, magnetism, lasers, optics, passive tag coding and applications, high energy photon linear accelerators, vehicle management and location systems, medical devices and systems, mobile telephone devices and systems, precision measurement systems, precision targeting systems, telephony, therapeutic compositions, medical devices, chemical compounds, security systems, anti-terrorism and force protection measures, mining and construction equipment, steel production, haulage systems, vehicles and vehicular components, materials recycling, manufacturing and entertainment. Our attorneys have also been local and co-counsel for law firms requiring specific expertise with intellectual property litigation.
Members of the firm have experience that includes obtaining and enforcing intellectual rights (including patents) for businesses and for individual inventors, including noted inventor the late Jerome H. Lemelson (frequently referred to as Jerry Lemelson), including working alongside noted patent attorney Gerald D. Hosier (sometimes referred to as Gerry Hosier, but more frequently as Jerry Hosier). Members of the firm have experience representing plaintiffs and representing defendants in complex actions where multiple patents were asserted against multiple companies or other entities.
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William J. (Hal) Hallihan Hal Hallihan is a member of Hallihan IP Partners, LLC and has in excess of fourteen years of experience working on intellectual property matters. Mr. Hallihan is a registered patent attorney in the United States and is also a registered patent agent in Canada. His practice is primarily focused on intellectual property, information technology matters and litigation.
Mr. Hallihan's practical experience includes client counseling, product development and patent design-around counseling, technology transfer, patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, patent interference, patent reexamination, patent re-issue, due diligence, licensing and intellectual property litigation. His legal experience includes e-commerce, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, antitrust, unfair competition, RICO actions, UCC issues and assorted state law claims. Mr. Hallihan has authored several articles on various intellectual property topics and also made presentations on a variety of intellectual property topics. Mr. Hallihan's experience includes practicing law at both large multi-national and intellectual property boutique firms. Much of his experience also comes from practicing with an elite group of intellectual property attorneys that were known for conducting an intellectual property litigation and licensing campaign that successfully collected in excess of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) for the intellectual property owner.
Hal Hallihan has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the mechanical, electro-mechanical, electrical, software, and chemical arts. His patent preparation and prosecution experience covers a variety of technologies, including slot machines and gaming devices, business methods, Internet/computer based devices and methods, medical devices and systems, computer software, data storage systems, optical and magnetic code readers/writers, wireless communicaitons, vehicles, vehicular componets and systems, synthetic speech synthesizers, etch resists for manufacturing printed circuit boards, free-piston engines, electronic security systems, print imaging systems, gas sensors, lighting systems, tools, metals manufacturing, waste recycling, petroleum and synthetic petroleum products, nutritional supplements, and kitchen gadgets.
Mr. Hallihan's litigation experience includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, antitrust, trade secrets, unfair competition, RICO, UCC issues, and assorted state law claims. Hal Hallihan's patent litigation experience includes nutritional supplements, Internet and/or computer based methods, software, computer image analysis, optical character recognition devices, bar coding, digital compression and decompression techniques, semiconductors, surface mounted devices, machine tool controls, fuel cells, kitchen gadgets, soil stabilizers, medical devices, footwear and tools.
Hal Hallihan is experienced in analyzing patentability, infringement, or invalidity issues and providing appropriate opinions regarding the same. Mr. Hallihan is experienced in agreement preparation and in counseling clients in a wide variety of intellectual property matters. Mr. Hallihan has also handled interferences before the U.S. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Hal Hallihan has worked at obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights for multinational corporations, midsize corporations and startups. Mr. Hallihan has counseled individuals all the way up to Fortune 500 companies on a variety of technology and/or legal related matters.
Hal Hallihan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and earned his Juris Doctor from the John Marshall Law School at Chicago. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Illinois, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hal Hallihan Dr. Gregory S. Umberson, MD Dr. Donald F. Moyer, Ph.D Jose J. Aparicio Susan M. Davis David J. Bremer David Jo Home Ms Davis has been a registered patent agent for approximately ten years. Her practice is primarily in the biological, chemical, and genetics arts for patent prosecution matters. She also is experienced at drafting mechanical applications. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science degree in phytopathology, and then undertook graduate courses in genetic engineering at Harvard University. Ms. Davis worked for approximately 10 years for EcoScience, Bioran, and BioRad. During her time in industry, Ms. Davis was involved in bioassays for virulence attenuation, antibiotic production, enzyme-linked and radio-immunoassays for medical testing, and immunoassays for clinical control development. Mr. Jo spent over 17 years in IT consulting and owned his own custom software company. He previously worked at two prominent Chicago accounting and law firms. Mr. Jo acts as our in-house software expert and is often consulted for issues concerning Japanese language documents. Hal Hallihan Dr. Gregory S. Umberson, MD Dr. Donald F. Moyer, Ph.D Jose J. Aparicio Susan M. Davis David J. Bremer David Jo Home
Dr. Gregory S. Umberson, MD
Dr. Umberson passed the United States patent bar over 14 years ago, in addition to the Colorado and New York bars. His practice is primarily focused on intellectual property, information technology matters and litigation. His practical experience includes client counseling, product development and patent design-around counseling, technology transfer, patent prosecution, due diligence, licensing and intellectual property litigation.
Greg's experience includes experience in Canada and Europe while working for Ericsson, a Fortune 500 Company. During that time, he worked on both patent and trademark issues involving both the United States and other countries. He previously worked as a computer programmer and also taught mathematics at the University of Colorado.
In addition to his experience concerning medical devices, nutritional supplements, and nutraceuticals, Greg has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the mechanical, electro-mechanical, electrical, and software arts. His patent preparation and prosecution experience covers a variety of technologies, including slot machines and gaming devices, Internet/computer based devices and methods, computer software, antenna arrays, data storage systems, signal processing, radio frequency (RF), cell arrays, wifi, security software and handshaking, cellular handoffs, networks, and a variety of fixed and cellular telephony systems (GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, 3G).
Greg is experienced in analyzing patentability, infringement, or invalidity issues and providing appropriate opinions regarding the same. He also is experienced in agreement preparation and in counseling clients in a wide variety of intellectual property matters
Dr. Umberson obtained his M.D. at the University of Belgrade, his J.D. at Tulane University Law School where he was a member of the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law at John Marshall Law School.
Greg was formerly a research assistant to the Honorable Paul R. Michel, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Languages: Swedish and Serbo-Croatian, working knowledge of French and German.
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Dr. Donald F. Moyer, Ph.D
Dr. Moyer is a physicist and is a Patent Agent licensed by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office over 15 years ago, in 1994. He specializes in health, safety and assistive technologies, including medical devices. Don is an Adjunct Professor at John Marshall Law School's Center for Intellectual Property Law teaching patent writing.
Dr. Moyer's research support has included NDEA, NSF, MacArthur foundation, Welch foundation, and Ford Foundation grants. He has published extensively on topics in Physics, History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Alzheimer's. Don is a frequent consultant, invited speaker, and organizer of Conferences, Colloquia, and Seminars on these and other topics. He was elected to Sigma Xi and Sigma Pi Sigma and is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Don received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Moyer taught and did research at various institutions including University of Wisconsin, IIT, Northwestern, Fermilab, and Texas A&M.
Jose J. Aparicio
Jose J. Aparicio is a registered patent attorney who has substantial and diverse experience working in Intellectual Property Law in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, and medical devices.
Jose began his legal career as a patent attorney at Bayer Corporation practicing patent preparation and prosecution in the chemical and biotechnology arts. Jose was also a patent attorney for biotech start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts which were researching and developing novel small molecule human therapeutics in various therapeutic areas including cancer, auto-immune disorders, hypertension, and anti-infectives among others. In private practice at one of the largest Pittsburgh, PA based law firms, Jose counseled clients, ranging from Fortune 500 clients to small biotech start-ups and individual inventors, on IP matters including patent preparation and prosecution, infringement and freedom to operate opinions, and foreign patent portfolio prosecution and management.
Prior to his legal career Jose was a research scientist at Abbott Laboratories Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical Divisions and worked on developing diagnostic tests for HIV, HCV and other pathogens, as well as anti-bacterial and anti-viral pharmaceuticals. He co-authored articles in peer reviewed journals Virology and Biochemistry on bacterial genetics for production of broad-spectrum antibiotics and a viral genome for use in diagnostic kits. Jose also worked in securing international marketing approval for Abbott’s billion-dollar antibiotic clarithromycin working with health regulatory agencies in Europe, Israel, Japan and Australia as well as Latin America. Jose was also part of the regulatory team that obtained the first marketing approval for Abbott’s HIV protease inhibitor Norvir in record time from the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) using its then new expedited review procedure for products serving unmet medical needs.
Jose has recently participated in patent infringement litigation cases before the International Trade Commission dealing with complex technologies ranging from bio-pharmaceuticals (Amgen v. Roche) and cellular telecommunications (Qualcomm v. Nokia) as a consultant for several notable law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr. Aparicio obtained his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology/Molecular Biology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, his J.D. and an LL.M in Intellectual Property Law from the John Marshall Law School of Chicago.
Languages: French and Spanish.
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Susan M. Davis
Hal Hallihan Dr. Gregory S. Umberson, MD Dr. Donald F. Moyer, Ph.D Jose J. Aparicio Susan M. Davis David J. Bremer David Jo Home
Mr. Bremer is a mechanical engineer and a Patent Agent licensed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approximately 7 years ago.
He has over 20 years experience as a mechanical engineer, including 12 years as an engineering consultant. Mr. Bremer has written and prosecuted patent applications for educational devices, hand tools, recreational products, and various consumer and industrial products.
David is an adjunct professor at JMLS for the Patent Clinic courses where he teaches law students how to write patent applications.
Mr. Bremer worked as a staff engineer for such diverse companies as Avondale Shipyards, Standex, NREC (a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand), and GE Aircraft Engine Division. He has extensive experience in mechanical design and analysis, especially in the area of rotating equipment (turbines, pumps, and compressors.)
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, 1982.
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David Jo
Mr. Jo has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Studies and Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to moving to the United States to attend Northwestern University, Mr. Jo lived in Tokyo, Japan.
Languages: Japanese
