Mr. Henry has extensive experience in assisting his clients in identifying, strategically managing and protecting domestic and foreign intellectual property assets, as well as prosecuting or defending patent infringement and trademark infringement claims in federal courts throughout the United States. Mr. Henry has had some emphasis in the realm of medical and surgical devices and pharmaceuticals, but has prosecuted and litigated patents relating to a wide variety of technologies, including such areas as petroleum exploration technologies, electrical grid management systems, prosthetic joints, food and beverage production technologies, and devices, systems used in space missions, and animal care products.
At any given time, Mr. Henry is involved in a number of federal court patent infringement or trademark infringement actions throughout the United States, as well as certain, selected activities at the United States Patent & Trademark Office ("U.S.P.T.O."). Mr. Henry's experience and circumstances are such that he is particularly well-suited for assisting clients in intensive, fast-paced patent litigation arenas, such as the Eastern District of Texas. Alongside his longstanding legal career, he has served as a patent law professor at Baylor Law School since 1994, and now teaching in the Entrepreneurship Program of Baylor's Hankamer School of Business.
Mr. Henry's practice emphasizes:
§ Patent Litigation Prosecution and Defense.
§ Patent and Trademark Strategic Planning, Prosecution, and Licensing
§ Trademark and Trade Secret Litigation
Court and Agency Admissions
§ U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
§ United States Supreme Court
§ U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
§ U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
§ U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
§ U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
§ U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
§ U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
§ Canadian Patent Office
Recent, Representative Pro Hac Vice Admission (by State)
§ Arizona
§ California
§ Delaware
§ Florida
§ Georgia
§ Illinois
§ Massachusetts
§ Missouri
§ Rhode Island
Current Clients by State/Nation
§ Arizona
§ Australia
§ California
§ Canada
§ Delaware
§ England
§ Florida
§ Georgia
§ Hawaii
§ Illinois
§ Indiana
§ Italy
§ Kansas
§ Massachusetts
§ Missouri
§ New York
§ Nebraska
§ Oregon
§ Italy
§ Rhode Island
§ Tennessee
§ Texas
§ Utah
§ Virginia
§ Washington
§ Wyoming
Professional/Civic Activitiess
§ Baylor University Faculty Advisor to Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Delta Pi Chapters
§ Frequent Bar Association (State and Local) and Professional Groups Speaker
§ United States Air Force Auxiliary, Lieutenant Colonel (Wing Public Affairs Officer)
§ Greater Waco Area Aviation Alliance Advisor
§ Member: Board of Directors of the Military Child Education Coalition
NOTABLE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND CITATIONS
§ 2010: Medical Device Patent Litigation (New York City) - "The 'Should We?', 'When Do We?' and 'When We Do, What Then?' of Markman Hearings in Patent Litigaiton"
§ 2007: State Bar of Texas Convention - "The Myths and Traps of Intellectual Property"
§ 2000: Texas Association of Defense Counsel Convention - "Defensive Thinking in the Intellectual Property Realm"
§ 1999: Intellectual Property, NEW FRONTIERS IN MARITAL PROPERTY LAW - cited in 2003 by the 10th Court of Appeals of Texas
§ 1998 - Present: Accredited CLE Presenter for Mutiple Bar Associations
Primary State Bar Membership
§ Supreme Court of the State of Texas
Education
§ Juris Doctor, Baylor University, 1985
§ B.A., Baylor University, 1982 (with honors)
Selected, Representative Experience
§ Representation of medical device company in parallel federal and Delaware Chancery Court cases involving theft of trade secrets, unfair competition, and breach of confidentiality agreements
§ Representation of publicly held medical device company in defense of patent infringement case, successfully arguing appeal of adverse judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Washington, D.C.) - Pressure Products Medical Supplies, Inc. vs. Greatbatch, Ltd., _____ 3d ______ (Fed. Cir. 2010). http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1602.pdf
§ Representation of publicly held corporation as plaintiff in patent infringement litigation involving non-U.S. infringer
§ Representation of privately held, multi-national company in multiple cases involving copyright, patent, and trademark infringement
§ Representation of petroleum exploration equipment company in two patent infringement matters § Representation of privately held pet supply in patent infringement and breach of contact case
§ Representation of soft drink company in trademark infringement action against rival manufacturer
§ Representation of professional assocaition in service mark infringement case and appeal - Society of Financial Examiners v. National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Inc., Etals, 41 F.3d 223 (5th Cir. 1995)
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