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Mark Patterson is an experienced patent practitioner and trial attorney. His primary practice involves the writing and prosecution of patent applications in the electrical, electronic, and computer software arts including business methods; patent, trademark and copyright counseling, including preparing validity and infringement opinions; licensing; and litigation in all areas of intellectual property law. He has assisted clients in obtaining over 200 U.S. patents. (See a list of representative patents.)
Mr. Patterson has represented clients in Federal and state courts throughout the country and in the United States Court of Appeals. (See a representative case.)
Mr. Patterson also serves as a legal consultant and testifying expert witness in patent and trade secret litigation involving mechanical and electronic technologies, and in other disputes involving intellectual property issues.
He received the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree with highest honors from the Florida State University College of Law in 1980 where he served as a legal writing instructor and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1973. During the period 1973-1977, he worked for Motorola, Inc. as a senior electronics design engineer in the design of portable radio communications equipment and related integrated circuits. His technical background also includes computer programming experience in Fortran, Basic, RPG, PL-1, and IBM Assembly Language. He is licensed to practice in Tennessee and Florida, and has been a registered patent attorney since 1981. Since 1986, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Law, teaching annually a three credit hour course in Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets. He is a contributing author to MacLean, Tennessee Legal Forms (Computer Law and Patent Forms), West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN.
Professional Affiliations: Member:Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; International Trademark Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association. From 1989-1993, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle Tennessee High Tech Initiative.
Teaching and Public Speaking Experience: Annual Convention (1991, 1995, 2001) of the Post Card and Souvenir Distributors Association (Presentation on Copyright, Trademark and Licensing issues in the post card and souvenir industry); Vanderbilt University School of Law (Adjunct Professor of Law since 1986, teaching course in Patent, Trademark, Unfair Competition and Trade Secret law; also taught special seminar on International aspects of patent and trademark law); Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University (guest lecturer in MBA classes on management of technology; Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (guest lecturer for graduate students in Management of Technology program (1995-2001) and at seminar sponsored by the Vanderbilt chapter of ASME (1986)); Nashville Bar Association (CLE seminar on trade secret protection; CLE seminar on patent and trademark law; presentation to International Law Committee on international patent law; CLE seminar on issues in technology licensing); Middle Tennessee High Tech Initiative (seminar on legal protection of technology for business and technical managers); featured speaker on legal protection of computer software for national meeting of software users group; Middle Tennessee Paralegal Association (seminar on protection of creative and technical products); Tennessee Department of Economic Development, Small Business Services Division (seminar on patent and trademark issues for Tennessee Small Business); University of Tennessee Space Institute (seminar on patent law for research scientists); Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association (speaker on changes in U.S. intellectual property law and procedure arising from GATT implementation, 1995; speaker on fact and legal issues in patent litigation, 1998; speaker on recent developments in patent claim interpretation, 1998); Tennessee Technological University (seminar for engineering students and faculty on patent law) (1995, 1997); Tennessee Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar on "Patent Law for the General Practitioner"; Seminar Presentation to U.S. Bankruptcy Trustees Panel on Intellectual Property (1996); American Society for Paralegal Education (intellectual property in paralegal education); Huntsville Association of Small Business and Technology (Presentation on patent protection for business methods); National Business Institute (Law of the Internet); Williamson County Bar Association (2000) (CLE seminar on Intellectual Property Issues in Commercial Transactions); Belmont University Peer Learning Forum (2000) (Patent Protection for Business Methods); Tennessee Bar Association (2000) (CLE seminar on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act); CLE Panelist on "Recent Developments in Copyright Law" presented by the Nashville Bar Association (2002); Panel Member - Use of Expert Witnesses in Patent Cases presented by the Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association (2002); Ethical and Legal Aspects of Patents, Copyrights, Trademark and Trade Secrets (Professional Development Seminars (2002); numerous presentations to clients and individual businesses on legal protection of technical and creative works.
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