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Robert Hardy Falk, P.C.
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AV-Rated Professional Intellectual Property Trial Lawyer
Experience in Management of Law Firms and Hands-On Experience in All Phases of Intellectual Property, Prosecution, Licensing and Litigation (Management, First and Second Chair), including Patents, Trademarks, Trade Dress, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets, and the Surrounding Areas of Unfair Competition and Antitrust Law. State and Federal Courts and the International Trade Commission; Foreign Oppositions and Cancellation Proceedings in Canada, the European Patent Office, the Commonwealth Countries and Japan.
EDUCATION
Juris Doctor,
University of Texas
at Austin (May 1975)
Honors, GPA 3.5/4.00
President of Patent, Trademark & Copyright Association; Board of Advocates (director and member); Assistant Editor,
Texas Law Review
; APLA Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition; Hildebrand and Geary Breis Competitions; and Phi Delta Phi
M.S., Chemical Engineering,
University of Texas
at Austin (August 1972)
Salutatorian, GPA 3.80/4.00
B.S., Chemical Engineering,
University of Texas
at Austin (December 1971)
Valedictorian, GPA 3.95/4.00; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi
B.A., Chemistry,
Austin College
, Sherman, Texas (January 1970)
High Honors, GPA 3.79/4.00; Phi Beta Kappa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Falk & Fish, LLP, Dallas TX
Managing Partner | June 1992âPresent |
Responsible for client procurement and development, as well as coordination of firm's resources as lead counsel for cases filed or defended on East and West Coasts of U.S., locally in Dallas, various other states including North Carolina, as well as Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Have a range of legal responsibilities that run the gamut of litigation, licensing, and prosecution as managing partner in a boutique Intellectual Property firm, including supervision and construction of pleadings, motions, the taking of depositions, and trial testimony, including participation in same.
Supervise the preparation and prosecution of chemical, mechanical, and electrical patent applications, and the preparation and prosecution of trademark and copyright applications.
Supervise the litigation work of junior partners, salaried partners, associates, and paralegals, as well as foreign and domestic legal counsel and foreign patent agents.
Appear in Federal District Courts in Texas, New York, Illinois, California, Arizona, and North Carolina.
Geary, Glast & Middleton, P.C., Dallas TX
Director, Intellectual Property Section | January 1992âJune 1992 |
Responsible for client procurement and development, as well as litigation, licensing, and prosecution as head of an Intellectual Property department of a major Dallas law firm.
Member of the Executive Committee of Geary, Glast & Middleton, P.C.
Supervised one junior partner, six associates, and a number of paralegals.
First- and second-chair responsibilities for the filing of several major patent suits, as well as suits involving trademarks and servicemarks.
Responsible for worldwide prosecution of trademarks and servicemarks.
Invoices to clients of Falk-originated clients during 5½-month period at Geary, Glast & Middleton, P.C. was in excess of $2 million.
