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McGeehanTechnologyLaw (ID: 1237197)

U.S. Patent, Trademark and Internet Attorney

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	Feedback: Read 1 reviews Earnings (Year): $825

Summary

Member Since:

November 16, 2009 | 0 quotes in last 30 days | Last Signed in: February 19, 2012

Location:

Chicago, Illinois | United States

Would work on site:

Earnings (All Time):

$2,220

Earnings by Skill (Year):

Legal	$825
Corporate	$0
Employment	$0
Financial & Securities	$0
IP & Trademark	$825
Litigation	$0

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Rate:

Min. Rate: $150.00 | Min. Budget: $250.00

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Industries:

Consumer Goods & Services, Finance, Health Care, Media & Entertainment, Technology & Internet

Highlights

CHRISTOPHER J. MCGEEHAN is a principal at McGeehan Technology Law, Ltd., where he practices at the intersection of business and technology. Chris is a registered patent attorney (Reg. No. 56,001) with six years of experience, a member of the Illinois bar, and a member of the trial bar of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where he graduated as a Presidential Scholar, and JD and LLM (Intellectual Property) degrees from The John Marshall Law School.

His law practice focuses on the acquisition, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the United States and internationally including patent, trademark and unfair competition litigation at the trial and appellate levels.

His IP counseling experience includes patent and trademark prosecution and novelty, infringement, design-around, and competition/antitrust opinions. Mr. McGeehan is particularly knowledgeable regarding the policing and enforcement of intellectual property rights on the Internet, where his experience includes litigation, domain name arbitrations, and administrative enforcement of third-party acceptable use policies.

His IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) experience includes intellectual property due diligence, management of portfolios of patents, trademarks and domain names, and transfers of intellectual property rights attendant to mergers, acquisitions and restructurings.

Skills

Years of Experience:	6 year(s)
Highest degree:	Juris Doctor
Software Skills:	No information provided
Additional Skills:	• Draft provisional and nonprovisional mechanical, design and software patent applications. • Prosecute mechanical, electrical, biotechnological, and business method applications • Draft and file petitions with USPTO, including requests for republication due to USPTO errors, transfer of documents misfiled by USPTO; and prosecution by the assignee where all inventors refused to execute declarations of inventorship. • Instruct foreign associates regarding prosecution of counterpart applications. • Draft and file appeal briefs with the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. • Prosecute trademark applications and respond to USPTO office actions. • Draft and file pleadings in TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings. • Advise clients regarding labeling requirements under U.S. law including regulations under Tariff Act and FTC Act. • Draft pleadings for domain name arbitrations under the UDRP, .usTLD DRP and .uk DRS policies. • Negotiate copyright licenses for software and computer-generated fonts. • Register copyrights on websites, computer programs and stock photography. • Enforce copyrights against Internet infringers through §512 takedown demands. • Intellectual property counseling including novelty, infringement, design-around and competition/antitrust opinions. • Create documentation for transfer of 500+ U.S. patent properties into new subsidiary.
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Work Terms

I prefer to work on a negotiated flat fee basis and only work on an hourly basis for particularly complex matters.

Please note that if your project involves government charges (such as a patent, trademark or copyright application filing fees) or payments to third parties (like a patent draftsman), these fees must be paid in advance since I do not advance fees that are payable to third parties.

Where possible, I will try to provide samples of my work. However, certain types of work (i.e. opinions) are typically protected by attorney-client privilege, making it difficult for me to produce proof that I have experience in this area.