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Thanks for accessing my profile. I have fourteen years experience in practicing IP Law. I specialize in Patent Law and am registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 39,864). I am a 1986 Honors graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S. Chemical Engineering). Though my background is in the Chemical Arts, I currently practice in the high tech area. I have both law firm and in-house experience, and practice with a business focus.

Jim Haugen is the founder of Seattle Patent Group. He has been working with patents since January 2006, and has been a registered practitioner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office since February 2007. During this time, he has done patent prosecution (writing patent applications and responding to office actions from the USPTO to obtain patents), advising clients on strategies to protect intellectual property to ensure optimal intellectual property protection within a given budget, and patent infringement analysis for litigation support. He joined the Washington State Bar Association in 2013.. Jim has over thirty years of experience in the design, implementation, and development of software, ranging from real-time tracking systems for psychology experiments to contact tracking databases for government departments and agencies. He also has over fourteen years of experience at Microsoft, in various technical, management, and legal roles.. Prior to working at Microsoft, Jim was the President of a software development and consulting company based in Halifax, Nova received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Seattle University School of Law in 2010. He had previously obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Dalhousie University in 1982, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Degree from Dalhousie University in 1984.