Dr. Harrison is a highly experienced patent attorney who provides high-quality preparation and prosecution of U.S. Patent applications and manages the acquisition of related foreign patent rights and intellectual property licensing.

Dr. Harrison assists clients in intellectual property licensing negotiations and related patent analyses and transactions. He provides right-to-use / patent clearance investigations and analyses & opinions regarding patent validity, infringement, and essentiality to standards.

Dr. Harrison also represents clients in intellectual property disputes, including pre-litigation counseling and representation, patent litigation and litigation support, alternative dispute resolution (e.g., mediation, arbitration), post-grant proceedings such as inter parties review (IPR), select trademark-related disputes and enforcement matters, and patent reexamination requests and proceedings.

His experience also includes handling trademark-related disputes in connection with broader intellectual property enforcement and licensing strategies.

REPRESENTATIVE LEGAL EXPERIENCE

As a Partner at BHW IP Law, Dr. Harrison has prepared and successfully prosecuted high quality and enforceable U.S. patent applications and evaluated or asserted patents in a wide variety of mechanical, electrical, and biomedical fields (e.g., firearms, vehicle assessories, sports equipment, magnetic recording heads, information storage devices, and related technologies such as dental implants, ophthalmic surgical devices, testing and metrology apparatuses, etc.). Dr. Harrison is also very experienced in managing the acquisition of related foreign patent rights for his clients.

He has assisted clients in intellectual property licensing negotiations and related patent analyses and transactions and provided right-to-use / patent clearance investigations analyses & opinions regarding patent validity, infringement, and essentiality to standards.

Dr. Harrison began his Intellectual Property career as a Litigation Associate at Irell & Manella, LLP. There he was a subordinate member of a leading and renowned patent litigation team.

He has successfully represented Fortune 500 and smaller clients in dozens of intellectual property disputes, including co-representation in several major patent litigation matters. Dr. Harrison was formerly an In-house Patent Attorney at Western Digital Corp. While there he represented the company in several I.P. licensing and co-development agreements managed the successful preparation and prosecution of dozens of patent applications and assisted with the oversight of patent litigation matters.

He also has represented clients in intellectual property disputes, including pre-litigation, post-grant proceedings such as inter-parties review (IPR) counseling and representation, patent litigation and litigation support, alternative dispute resolution (e.g., mediation, arbitration), and patent reexamination requests and proceedings.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• R&D Manager, Seagate Technology
• Assoc. Prof. (Engineering), Univ. of Queensland
• Engineer, Applied Magnetics Corp., and IBM Corp.
• Firearms Instructor and RSO (Military and Civilian)