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Joshua C. Harrison
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Partner
949-340-9736
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Dr. Harrison represents clients in intellectual property legal matters, with a focus on patent preparation, prosecution, licensing, pre-litigation, opinions, and litigation.
Legal Practice Areas Provide high quality preparation and prosecution of US Patent applications; manage the acquisition of related foreign patent rights.
Assist clients in intellectual property licensing negotiations and related patent analyses and transactions.
Provide right-to-use / patent clearance investigations, and analyses & opinions regarding patent validity and infringement.
Represent clients in intellectual property disputes, including pre-litigation counseling and representation, patent litigation and litigation support, alternative dispute resolution (e.g. mediation, arbitration), and patent reexamination requests and proceedings.
Representive Legal Experience
Partner, Barcelo, Harrison & Walker, LLP – Prepared and prosecuted US patent applications in a wide variety of electrical, mechanical, and biomedical fields (e.g. magnetic recording heads, information storage devices, and related technologies, dental implants, ophthalmic surgical devices, vehicle accessories, therapeutic aids, testing and metrology apparatuses, sports equipment, etc); successfully represented Fortune 500 and smaller clients in dozens of intellectual property disputes, including co-representation in several major patent litigation matters.
In-house Patent Attorney, Western Digital Corp. – Represented the company in several IP licensing and co-development agreements; managed the successful preparation and prosecution of dozens of patent applications; assisted with the oversight of patent litigation matters.
Litigation Associate, Irell & Manella, LLP – Subordinate member of a leading and renowned patent litigation team. |
| Technical Experience
R&D Manager, Seagate Technology
Assoc. Prof. (Engineering), Univ. of Queensland
Engineer, Applied Magnetics Corp., and IBM Corp.
Bar and Court Admissions
U.S. Federal Courts
California State Courts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
JD, Stanford Law School
Ph.D. (Engineering), UCSD
M.Sc. (Engineering), UCSD
B.Sc. (Engineering), USC
Military Service
23 years total service in US Marine Corps Reserve & US Army Reserve
Joint Service Achievement Medal (Joint Intelligence Center Pacific)
Honorable discharge, 2003
Publications
On the Convergence of U.S. and Australian Patent Law, Melbourne Journal of Int. Law, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pages 351-380 (2001).
Attracting the World's Policemen to Protocol I Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, US Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 12, pages 103-137 (2003).
Author of 19 publications in refereed scientific/engineering journals.
Named inventor on ten issued US patents. |
