Description of the Practice
Joel Miller handles a wide range of patent, trademark, copyright, and antitrust matters, including litigation and transactional assignments. Mr. Miller also works on matters in related areas of the law, and in a broad range of technologies, as outlined below.
Representative Legal Matters
Patents
Patent application preparation and prosecution; infringement litigation; infringement, validity, and right-to-use (freedom-to-operate) studies and opinions; reexamination proceedings; arbitrator in a patent licensing dispute; appeals to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Trademark application preparation and prosecution; infringement litigation; policing of marks and investigation of unauthorized third party users; proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (including appeals, cancellations, and oppositions); false advertising.
Copyrights
Copyright registration; infringement litigation; music performance rights (ASCAP, BMI).
Computer Software and Information Technology
Patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright protection; website and software development agreements, and related litigation; corporate software protection audits and plans.
Licensing and Agreements
Patent, know-how, trademark, copyright, computer software, and music license agreements and related contracts; non-disclosure agreements.
Antitrust
Predatory pricing; distribution and dealer termination issues; monopolization; intellectual property antitrust; industry standards; litigation.
International Trade
Patent infringement proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission; economic injury under 19 U.S.C. § 1337 (prior to and since the passage of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988); export licensing and controls (ITARs).
Employment Agreements
Preparation of employment, invention assignments, and non-compete agreements; exit interviews.
Government Contracts
Patent and data rights.
Administrative
Rulemaking proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission; unfair/deceptive practices action before the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Representative Technologies
Analog and digital circuitry; communications (HF, VHF, UHF, land mobile radio, avionics, CATV, commercial and educational broadcasting, telephony, wireless); artificial intelligence; computer hardware and software; digital signal processing; electromechanical control systems; healthcare products; medical electronics; navigation systems; optoelectronics and digital display systems; pollution control systems (including electrostatic precipitators); radar; semiconductor technology (process, architecture, and circuitry).
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A description of the practice in .pdf form may be downloaded here.