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Senior Consultant Phone: 501-952-0530
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
Joe Calhoun has over twenty years of business counseling and litigation experience, honing a specialization in intellectual property law since approximately 1993. His primary practice areas include procurement, transfer and enforcement (or defense) of intellectual property rights, business start-up organization and expansion, commercial competition, and a wide variety of business contracts and business disputes. Significant experience includes:
◦§◦ Legal representation of a veterinary health research company in licensing technology patented by the United States Department of Agriculture, pursuing foreign patenting of related research, and structuring sublicenses with companies within and outside the United States.
◦§◦ Representing a non-profit company (non-governmental organization) in obtaining and maintaining domestic and foreign trademark registrations; including counseling NGO in connection with involvement in USAID projects.
◦§◦ Legal representation of a foreign corporation in obtaining protection of intellectual property, and defending against allegations of patent infringement in the United States.
◦§◦ Representing an inventor of wound treatment biotechnology (and his succeeding start-up company) in pursuing patenting of technology and registration of trademarks within the United States and in foreign countries; subsequent representation of the inventor in sub-licensing of technology from the initial start-up company for use in other fields.
◦§◦ Organization of a start-up medical prostheses company, utilizing technology licensed from a medical school.
◦§◦ Defense and prosecution of actions involving allegations of infringement of patents, copyrights and trademarks, in addition to related causes of action for unfair competition, false advertising, deceptive trade practices, tortious interference with business relations, trade secret misappropriation and breach of non-competition covenants and non-disclosure agreements.
◦§◦ Representing clients in a wide array of business litigation matters involving issues such as securities fraud, malfeasance within business organizations, and breach of contract.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Joseph D. Calhoun Ltd. dba Calhoun Law Firm
Little Rock and Jonesboro, AR
September 1, 2001 to present; President.
(Currently officing within Jack, Nelson, Jones, Fink, Tiles & Gregory)
Joseph D. Calhoun Ltd. of Calhoun & Haase PLLC
Little Rock and Jonesboro, AR
January 1, 2000 to August 31, 2001; Member.
(and of counsel to Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale)
Gill, Elrod, Ragon, Owen, Calhoun & Sherman
Little Rock, AR
June 1, 1986 to December 31, 1999; Partner at departure.
Arkansas Court of Appeals
February 1, 1985 to May 31, 1986; Judicial Clerk.
Tarkington, O’Connor & O’Neill
San Francisco, CA
August 1984 to January 1985; Associate Attorney.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
State Bar of Arkansas
State Bar of California
Registered Patent Attorney, U. S. Patent & Trademark Office
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California
Pulaski County Bar Association
Craighead County Bar Association
Arkansas Bar Association
American Bar Association
EDUCATION:
University of San Francisco School of Law
J.D. degree, 1983
Tulane University, New Orleans LA
B.S. degree in Biology and Psychology, 1978
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Chair, Intellectual Property Law Section of Arkansas Bar Association, June 2006 to June 2007.
Arkansas Biotechnology Association, Treasurer, 1997 to 2001.
Arkansas Technology Transfer Society, Treasurer, 1997 to 2003.
CONSULTING:
Grooming of start-up businesses for presentations to potential investors and lenders.
Small Business Development Center consultation concerning business start-up and protection of intellectual property.
SEMINARS & TRAINING PRESENTATIONS:
IDEAS TO ASSETS: A Practical Guide to Patents, Copyrights & Trademarks.
Presented on numerous occasions on behalf of the UALR Small Business Development Center and the Arkansas Technology Transfer Society.
The Nuts and Bolts of Intellectual Property Law.
Presented on behalf of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Arkansas Bar Association
Drafting and Enforcement of Confidentiality and Non-competition Agreements.
Presented as segment of workshop entitled HIRING AND FIRING: How To Do It Right! organized by Sterling Education Services, Inc.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
The Impact of Patent Law On Everyday Law Practice.
Published as a segment on Intellectual Property Law in THE ARKANSAS LAWYER, January 2000
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