Tag Archives: Intellectual Property Practice

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Howard & Howard expands Intellectual Property Practice

Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 2017: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC is pleased to announce that Elizabeth V. Johnson has joined the firm. She will practice out of the firm’s Royal Oak office.

Ms. Johnson concentrates her practice in patent and trade secret matters. She has broad based skill in negotiating technology agreements and litigating complex patent cases through trial. With a strong background in electrical engineering, she is well-versed in matters related to a variety of technologies including cell phones, semiconductors, computer and graphics processors, and software. Ms. Johnson has represented clients in all phases of complex multi-defendant, multi-patent matters through multiple trials before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), district courts across the country, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She has experience recommending patents for assertion in offensive litigation and developing validity and infringement strategies in offensive and defensive litigation.

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Howard & Howard expands intellectual property practice

Royal Oak, Michigan, April 25, 2017: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC is pleased to announce that Marcus A. Smetka has joined the firm. He will practice out of the firm’s Royal Oak office.

Mr. Smetka concentrates his practice in intellectual property with an emphasis on patent and trademark prosecution. In the area of patent prosecution, his focus is primarily in the electromechanical arts. He has experience preparing utility and design applications patent applications, as well as responding to Office Actions and preparing patentability opinions.

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Lidings’ Lawyers Prepare a Practical Guide on Protecting Business’ Intellectual Assets Special for Simplawyer

Experts of the Lidings’ intellectual property practice have authored a special step-by-step practical guide on how to protect intellectual assets of businesses intended for an online legal intelligence platform patronized by the Simplawyer company.

The guide encompasses a series of documents describing and demonstrating in a very comprehensible way all relevant techniques of protecting intellectual assets of businesses of any size and area of specialization, offering distinct instruments such as inclusion of IP assets in the customs’ registries, court appeal of refusal in inclusion of an IP object in Customs Intellectual Property Registry (CIPR), monitoring IP violations and Internet “cleanup” to get rid of the infringers.

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