Top best Intellectual Property Lawyers Near me in ZIP 63105

Mr. Harlan is a trial and appellate attorney with extensive experience in the federal and state courts. He has brought and defended civil actions on behalf of entities and individuals in a broad range of business disputes involving, for example, patent infringement, trademark infringement, control disputes, breaches of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, RICO, lender's liability, insurance coverage and employment issues. He also has counseled clients and litigated matters involving issues of antitrust law, including representation of a manufacturing company in a 56-day jury trial in which, as lead trial counsel, he secured a $105 million judgment.  He also served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney of St. Louis and was responsible for prosecution of major federal criminal cases. Capitalizing on this experience, Mr. Harlan has defended corporations, their officers and employees from criminal charges involving business matters such as price fixing, environmental pollution, government program fraud, mail fraud, false statements and other business-related criminal charges.

Mike Kella is focused on obtaining intellectual property protection for his clients. He also has significant experience litigating complex patent, copyright, and trademark disputes on behalf of clients, ranging from individual inventors to publicly traded companies—and has helped his clients recover significant licensing revenue in the process.. Mike has successfully led briefing on complex patent claim construction issues, argued numerous Markman hearings, led infringement contention development, and defended invalidity assertions related to a variety of technologies in district courts and at the International Trade Commission.  Such technologies include power management, distributed computing, smartphone, LED display, flash memory, automotive, e-commerce, virtual private networking, video conferencing, home automation, and wireless communication technologies.. Prior to entering the legal field, Mike gained experience developing software for a Fortune 500 telecommunications company and for one of the largest privately held companies in the automotive industry.. In law school, he was Lead Articles Editor for the Saint Louis University Public Law Review, served as a judicial extern to the Honorable G. Patrick Murphy for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, and participated in moot court and trial advocacy.

Lynn Lehnert applies her extensive scientific background to the practice areas of intellectual property and toxic torts. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with experience prosecuting both patent and trademark applications. She is also a seasoned intellectual property and toxic tort litigator.. Lynn’s intellectual property practice focuses on prosecuting patent applications involving software, semiconductors, and e-commerce. Her toxic tort and environmental experience includes working on complex federal-state herbicide class actions, as well as asbestos matters.. Lynn is trained in biology, chemistry, and physics. While in law school, Lynn focused her studies on energy law, patent law, and the emerging issue of gene patents. She had the unique experience of working on the Human Genome Project for two years as a laboratory assistant. Her knowledge and technical skill bring a distinct advantage to clients in disputes involving complex scientific disputes, and enable her to communicate these issues effectively to clients and the court.. Lynn also frequently writes about asbestos litigation for Goldberg Segalla's award-winning Asbestos Case Tracker, which was recently named to the ABA Journal's prestigious Blawg 100 and named the Best Litigation Blog for 2016 by the Expert Institute in its annual legal blog contest.. As a law student intern, Lynn served as a Prosecutor for the City of Chicago Department of Law. She also held an externship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she worked on matters involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act (CERCLA); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Clean Water Act (CWA); and various federal regulations. Before entering private practice, she served as an Assistant Missouri Public Defender, handling a full caseload of felony, misdemeanor, and juvenile matters.

Jim Harper's practice focuses on patent application preparation and prosecution worldwide, intellectual property counseling, patent portfolio management, product design counseling for maximizing intellectual property value and protection, agreements, patent oppositions, and patentability, infringement and freedom to operate analyses and preparation of associated opinions.