Joe J. Hawkins
Experience
Joe Hawkins is a partner practicing in the Technology and Intellectual Property group.
Joe's practice emphasizes patent prosecution, due diligence investigations,
competitive assessments for product clearance, and pre-litigation patent analysis. His
technical focus includes hardware and software, engineering with an emphasis on data
storage, security, networking, communications, optics, and networking technologies.
Joe worked as a software engineer for six years at Novell and NextPage designing and
implementing network security and peer-to-peer networking products. He also worked
as a summer associate Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, Portland, Oregon (2005); and
Fish and Richardson in San Diego, California (2006).
Representative Work
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Represents wide range of computer hardware and software companies from
Fortune 500 to startups. Experience includes preparation and prosecution of U.S.
and international patents, patent portfolio management, and strategic
counseling. Worked closely with client in-house IP counsel to obtain patent
Partner
Salt Lake City, UT
(801) 578-6971 direct
(801) 578-6999 fax
protection on foundational flash-storage technology.
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Provides noninfringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate opinions; product
clearance analysis; due diligence investigation; and guidance regarding patent
design around.
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joe.hawkins@stoel.com
Education
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J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham
Young University, J.D., 2007, magna
Counsels clients in responding to patent demand letters, including pre-litigation
cum laude
patent analysis, and post-grant review.
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Brigham Young University, M.S.
Technology Areas
electrical and computer engineering,
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2001
Data analytics technology including data mining, semantic extraction and
disambiguation, natural language processing, predictive modeling, and data
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visualization.
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semiconductor design and manufacture.
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Computer software technologies including media content distribution, internet
commerce, cloud computing, virtualization, web applications, software as a
service (SaaS), mobile applications, networking, data security, and user
interfaces.
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1996
Data storage technologies encompassing front-end storage interfaces, storage
virtualization, failure prediction and recovery, cache architectures, and storage
Computing hardware technologies including semiconductor devices, electronics,
network security devices, and power system monitoring and control systems.
Brigham Young University, B.S.
electrical and computer engineering,
Admissions
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Utah
Languages
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Portuguese
Joe J. Hawkins
Publications
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"What should be patentable? Supreme Court considers 'intangible' patents," The Enterprise, December 14-20, 2009
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Contributing author: "A Cad Suite for High-Performance FPGA Design," published in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FieldProgrammable Custom Computing Machines, April 1999
Professional Activities
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Trustee on Board of the Utah Technology Council (www.utahtech.org)
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Selection Committee Liaison in Electrical and Computer category of the Utah Innovation Awards, 2013-Present
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Member, Intellectual Property Section, Utah State Bar