Engineer Process

JOSHUA D. BISHOP

*** **** ******* ******, ********* 2 Chicago, IL 60657 773-***-****

abmufm@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, Juris Doctor Candidate,

May 2010

GPA: 3.57; Class Rank: Top 16%; Herzog Scholarship; Schwartz Scholarship;

Baim Scholarship

Judicial Externship: Hon. Charles P. Kocoras, U.S. District Court, Northern

District of Illinois, Spring 2010

Journal: Articles Editor, Review of Intellectual Property Law

Moot Court: Giles S. Rich Patent Law Moot Court Competition

Organizations: Chicago Bar Association; Illinois State Bar Association;

IPLAC; Purdue Alumni Association

Relevant Elective Courses:

. Patent & Trade Secret Law: Covered substantive law related to patents and

. trade secrets (A+).

. Patent Planning & Drafting: Taught by former Patent Examiner; drafted

full patent application in the mechanical/electrical arts, patentability

opinion, and infringement opinion (A-).

. IP Litigation: Involved specific topics related to IP trial litigation

(A+).

. Patent Clinic: Created independent process claims for a patentable

invention (A+).

. Accelerated IP Trial Advocacy: Taught by sitting federal trial judge;

performed two trials (A-).

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Bachelor of Science in Chemical

Engineering, May 1998

BAR ADMISSION: Registered USPTO Patent Agent No. 63,048

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, IP Law Clerk, February 2010 -

Present

. Performing patent prosecution work related to various technological art

fields.

Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, Summer Associate, May

2009 - July 2009

. Prepared Responses to Non-final Office Actions for pending patent

applications in the mechanical arts dealing with a gutter device and the

chemical arts dealing with an organic active semiconductor material.

. Created broadened claims for a plasma protein purification process patent

under reissue.

. Attended two Patent Examiner telephone interviews.

. Composed legal memoranda discussing numerous legal topics dealing with

intellectual property, electronic discovery, attorney exclusion, judicial

estoppel, and equitable tolling issues.

. Prepared a comprehensive essay summarizing the current state of the law

as related to claims construction.

Amin Hallihan LLC, Chicago, Illinois, Law Clerk, June 2008 - July 2008

. Performed research involving patent litigation and prosecution including

use of Westlaw, LexisNexis, and USPTO Public PAIR, TARR, and

patent/trademark assignment databases.

. Created summaries of depositions and document discovery evidence for a

patent infringement case.

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Steris Corporation, Mentor, Ohio, Engineer, September 2003 - August 2007

. Successfully completed chemical and biological decontamination projects

with U.S. Army - Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Joint Strike

Fighter Program, Battelle Memorial Institute, and other entities.

. Obtained "Secret" security clearance and 40-hr. HAZWOPER certification

regulated by 29 C.F.R. 1910.

OM Group, Cleveland, Ohio, Process Engineer, March 1999 - September 2003

. Performed pilot plant work of metals-based chemical processes.

. Prepared standard operating procedures, laboratory memoranda, and other

written works.

* Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook, patent

and trademark searching, PAIR, TARR, TESS, PACER. Lexis, Westlaw, Blue

Book, Adobe Acrobat, iManage, Espacenet, and text searching.

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