Thomas A. Fairhall is of counsel with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. Mr. Fairhall’s practice is primarily devoted to obtaining U.S. and foreign patents and trademarks for clients, counseling clients in the management and development of their intellectual property assets, and advising venture capital groups on the intellectual property of target companies. While he has prepared and prosecuted many patent applications in the electrical engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines, he currently concentrates his practice in the fields of biomedical devices and instrumentation, machine learning, medical diagnostics, and complex optical and mechanical systems.
Collaborated with prominent university professor in patenting nano-scale optical biosensor technology with applications in biochemical and medical testing.
“Prior use of Trade Secrets and the Intersection with Patent Law: The Prior User Rights Statute, 35 U.S.C. § 273”, Fed. Cir. Bar J. April, 2005.