R. Mark Halligan
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Mark Halligan has developed an extensive practice as an intellectual property litigator focused on protection and enforcement of trade secrets. He is also an experienced patent litigator and an accomplished trial attorney in both federal and state courts in all aspects of intellectual property law during his more than 30 years of practice. 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 represented both individuals and corporations as plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts in the United States. He was recently named in Legal 500 United States as a leading lawyer in trade secrets litigation. He has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for intellectual property and Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine named Mark to its IAM 250 – A Guide to the World’s Leading IP Strategists. Mark has also been has 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.

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.

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