Mitch Harris is a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and electrical engineer with more than 20 years of experience as a law firm Patent Attorney. Since 2001, he has been located in Northeast Georgia. His present Athens-based firm was established in the Spring of 2006 to better serve corporate clients in high technology fields such as microelectronics, computer systems and computer industries, as well as to provide intellectual property (IP) law services to the local community. Previously he was a named partner with an Arizona-based IP boutique and prior to that, he worked at an Austin, Texas-based IP boutique.
Mitch has been prosecuting patent applications since 1998, and has prepared and prosecuted over 1000 patent applications, both in the U.S. and internationally, with over 500 U.S. Patents presently issued. He has advised on litigation matters in electronics and mechanical arts, rendered clearance and patentability opinions, performed intellectual property due diligence studies, and advised on trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters for both large corporate clients and individuals.
Prior to entering the legal field, Mitch was a design engineer, software developer and project manager, both in the corporate workplace and as a consultant for 15 years. His areas of experience and expertise include analog/digital electronics, communications systems, control systems, power electronics, electronics packaging, electromagnetic and microwave systems, and software. His software experience includes operating systems and device drivers in languages including java, C, C++, and assembly. He holds patents in the areas of Phase Lock Loop techniques (U.S. 5,408,055), digitizer computer peripheral techniques (U.S. 5,436,598), Internet-based food auction and sales systems (U.S. 7,505,929), and voice call content suppression (U.S. 9,514,750). He has worked as an engineer or software developer for Emerson Electric and Lockheed-Martin, as well as smaller private and public start-up companies. He has also acted as an engineering liaison in Japan, and as an instructor in other countries in Asia in support of commercial and military technology transfer, systems integration, and maintenance training.
Bar Admissions:
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998
- Texas, 1999
- Georgia, 2003
Memberships:
- State Bar of Georgia and Intellectual Property Law Section
- State Bar of Texas and Intellectual Property Law Section
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Education:
- Juris Doctor, Arizona State University College of Law, 1999
- Graduate studies in communication/radar systems, antennas, RF electronics, and microwave component design, California State University, Northridge 1985-1987
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, cum laude, California State University, Northridge 1985 (Electronics)
- Undergraduate studies toward Bachelor in Music, piano/voice emphasis, University of the Pacific, 1979-1980