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R. Mark Halligan
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Experience
R. Mark Halligan is an accomplished trial lawyer who focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States.
An experienced patent litigator, Mark has also developed an extensive practice as an intellectual property litigator focused on protection and enforcement of trade secrets. He has extensive experience with the use of automated methods for the identification and classification of trade secret assets including methods for evaluating the defendibility of trade secrets according to the relevant legal tests.
Mark has successfully represented both individuals and corporations as plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts in the United States.
Representative Cases
- Trial counsel for major telecommunications company in federal court action for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and trade secret misappropriation in the United States District Court for Northern District of Illinois.
- Trial counsel for major national health and fitness client in action against former chief operating officer in federal court action for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and trade secret misappropriation in the Northern District of Illinois.
- Trial counsel for international general contractor engaged in the engineering and construction of industrial facilities in federal court action for the threatened or actual misappropriation of trade secrets relating to proprietary zinc solvent extraction technologies and other federal and state claims in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
- Trial counsel for the largest audio manufacturer in the US in the defense of a lawsuit for the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets relating to acoustic echo cancellation technologies in Utah state court.
- Trial counsel for manufacturer of mobile airfield lighting systems for military applications in defense of a lawsuit for trade secret misappropriation in state court in Cook County, Illinois.
- Trial counsel for manufacturer of borosilicate and quartz glassware for the biomedical, environmental, pharmaceutical, educational, chemical, chromatography and laser industries and governmental agencies in state court action for trade secret misappropriation and other claims in Cook County, Illinois.
- Trial counsel for investigative firm engaged in the investigation of financial fraud and counterfeiting activities in trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
- Trial counsel for manufacturer of on-line process analyzers and instruments in defense of trade secret misappropriation claims relating to the alleged misappropriation of source code and testing harnesses in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
- Trial counsel for manufacturer of greeting cards in defense of action for copyright infringement of six greeting cards in the United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Trial counsel for agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer in patent infringement suit involving round hay balers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
- Trial counsel for manufacturer of custom-designed optical filters and coatings in trade secret misappropriation lawsuit relating to optical interference filters in state court in Brattleboro, Vermont.
- Trial counsel for major telecommunications manufacturer in action for trade secret misappropriation relating to technologies involved in call center solutions in state court in DuPage County, Illinois.
- Trial counsel for an international warehouse distributor of tools and equipment in trade secret misappropriation lawsuit for the memorization and theft of proprietary customer information in state court in Cook County, Illinois.
- Trial counsel for major typewriter manufacturer in patent infringement and false advertising action relating to typewriter ribbon cartridges in federal court in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville).
A leader in his field, Mark He was recently named in Legal 500 United States as a leading lawyer in trade secrets litigation. He has been recognized for the second consecutive year for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 for intellectual property and Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine named Mark to its IAM 250 – A Guide to the World’s Leading IP Strategists. He has also been named a “Super Lawyer” by the Illinois Super Lawyers magazine since 2005.
Mark is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property issues and he serves on the Adjunct Faculty of John Marshall Law School in Chicago where he teaches trade secrets law. He is currently serving as an Annual Review Board Contributing Author of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section. Mark also serves on the Executive Committee of the United States Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and as a Domain Name Panelist for the World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO).
Mark is the Counsel of Record for Amici Curiae Association Internationale Pour La Protection De La Propriete Intellectuelle (AIPPI) and International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPP-US), Bilski v. Doll, Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 08-964 (August, 2009).
Publications and presentations
- ABA IPL Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2006-2008, ARVC Division IV and Contributor on Trade Secrets.
- Trade Secret Asset Management: An Executive’s Guide to Information Asset Management, Including Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Requirements for Trade Secrets (with Richard F. Weyand), Aspatore Books (2006).
- Intellectual Property Law Handbook, 2005 edition (General Editor), Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) (2005 and 2008).
- “Protection of U.S. Trade Secret Assets: Critical Amendments to the Economic Espionage Act of 1996,” 7 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 656 (2008).
- “Protecting Trade Secrets,” CLE Presentation, Mentor CLE, January 2008.
- “Capturing the Value of Trade Secrets,” Business Power: Creating New Wealth from IP Assets, Chapter 7, The National Knowledge & Intellectual Property Management Taskforce, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2007).
Admissions
Mark is admitted to practice in Ohio and Illinois. He is also admitted to practice before the following courts: the United States Supreme Court; the United States courts of appeals for the Federal, DC, Sixth and Seventh circuits; and federal district courts including the Northern and Southern districts of Ohio, the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Northern District of Illinois, including the Trial Bar.
Education
University of Cincinnati, B.A., summa cum laude
Northwestern University, J.D.
Affiliations
Member of the American Bar Association, Section of Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation;
Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) amicus committee;
Past President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago;
Immediate Past Chair of the Trade Secrets Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA);
Immediate Past Chair of the American Bar Association Trade Secrets Committee;
Master of the Richard Linn Inn of Court;
Fellow of The American Bar Foundation; and
The Best Attorneys Network, Intellectual Property Law.
