About
Joe Mellema s practice makes a speciality of litigation in federal and nation courts, together with the safety and enforcement of highbrow assets rights, and business and commercial disputes. He has handled patent, trademark, copyright, change secret, unfair business practices, antitrust, and enterprise and business lawsuits in all levels of litigation and arbitration.
Joe is nicely-versed in patent and trademark enforcement, practise and prosecution, as well as trademark enforcement and competition complaints before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent & Trademark Office. He has huge enjoy litigating patents in a whole lot of technical fields, which includes optical devices and components, laptop networks and databases, semiconductor devices and processes, computer hardware and software, and prescription drugs.
He has dual stages in electric engineering and bodily sciences, and become formerly a structures engineer at Raytheon Company running on next-generation sensors and systems for the Navy s F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Joe has particular revel in in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries, representing companies in patent-related disputes, handling IP portfolios, and carrying out due diligence projects. He has represented uniqueness and emblem pharmaceutical organizations in disputes under the False Claims Act, involving Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA), and concerning trade secrets and techniques for proprietary approaches for preparing drug formulations and compositions. He has additionally effectively litigated multi-billion greenback complex pharmaceutical cases below the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Joe became selected to the 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for Intellectual Property.
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Legal Issues
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
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Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
2016 - Counsel
Michelman & Robinson, LLP
2016 - Intellectual Property Litigation Associate
K&L Gates
2012 - Intellectual Property Litigation Associate
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
2010 - Intellectual Property Associate
Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP
2008 - Intellectual Property Associate
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
2006
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