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Texas State University
Washburn University School of Law
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Mr. Hall is focused on intellectual property with an emphasis in patent law. His background is in manufacturing engineering technology from Texas State University, and he served 8 years in the Texas Army National Guard.
Mr. Hall's clerkship at Lloyd & Mousilli serves as part of his law school coursework, as he is enrolled in the Third Year Anywhere program at Washburn University School of Law. This program is a pioneering opportunity for law students to finish their legal studies from a distance and move to the jurisdiction of their choice. The goal of the program is to allow students to begin building connections, networking, and gain real world experiences in the jurisdiction in which they hope to practice.
The program provides the student with the opportunity to learn real world legal concepts while gaining credit hours towards their law degree. The Third year anywhere program compliments the mission of Lloyd & Mousilli which strives to allow flexibility and promote innovative thinking as to what the practice of law looks like.
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Mr. Hall is focused on intellectual property with an emphasis in patent law. His background is in manufacturing engineering technology from Texas State University, and he served 8 years in the Texas Army National Guard.
Mr. Hall's clerkship at Lloyd & Mousilli serves as part of his law school coursework, as he is enrolled in the Third Year Anywhere program at Washburn University School of Law. This program is a pioneering opportunity for law students to finish their legal studies from a distance and move to the jurisdiction of their choice. The goal of the program is to allow students to begin building connections, networking, and gain real world experiences in the jurisdiction in which they hope to practice.
The program provides the student with the opportunity to learn real world legal concepts while gaining credit hours towards their law degree. The Third year anywhere program compliments the mission of Lloyd & Mousilli which strives to allow flexibility and promote innovative thinking as to what the practice of law looks like.
During my first month at Lloyd & Mousilli I conducted various research assignments on issues ranging from trade secrets to attorney’s fees under different causes of action to filing requirements for various patent entity sizes. This type of research is a great way to learn about the underlying issues that are involved in IP practice and the issues that a young attorney will need to be aware of or thinking about when handling a client’s matter.
I was able to perform discovery review of client documents, files, text messages and other various data forms to look for any evidence of wrongdoing. This type of work is critical for litigation and helps reduce the cost to attorneys while allowing externs to learn what goes into discovery requests and how important it is to tailor these requests to information relating to the specific issue or matter.
I was assigned a provisional patent to write with the guidance of my supervising attorney. My job was to create and draft the drawings, specification, claims, and review the prior art report. I was allowed to perform these tasks knowing that feedback and guidance would be presented tome following submission to my supervisor so that I could see how my supervisor would have done things or what wording he used differently than me. This has been an incredibly way to improve my claim drafting skills.
I attended client meetings to see how attorneys interact with and inform clients about the non-final office actions they receive. This is a skill that cannot be learned in a classroom but is a crucial skill for law students to learn.
This month has been a great opportunity to get exposure to the various aspects of firms practices and what it is like to be an IP practitioner.
During my second month at Lloyd & Mousilli I was able to research issues relating to tax issues, injunction of websites, litigation claim amendments, power of attorney under patent statutes, and patent appeal process for post final office action.
I was asked to write an article about “Diffusion of AI Technology and Future of AI Patents”. This article was reviewed and revised by the patent team and published by a legal advertising firm. Writing this type of article is a great was to learn about trends in a particular area and do research that allows both the extern and firm to become more informed on the direction of the market and trends going on. Writing this article allowed me to have creativity and express some of my own thoughts while informing readers about an important issue.
I was tasked with assisting the litigation team by performing an analysis of the claims in a complaint to ensure that each and every element of the claims was accounted for and addressed. This exercise allows the extern to become familiar with different type of claims that come up in litigation, the elements of these claims, and best practices of ensuring that the claim language captures every requirement under the law to ensure relief for the party bringing the suit.
The firm requested that I perform a trademark infringement search for a client. The client has licensed their trademark brand to many entities for limited durations. I searched for these entities to ensure if their licensing agreement had lapsed, they had ceased to use the trademarked brand. This is a wonderful skill to learn as it is important to consider how a client protects their brand and enforces agreements.
A client requested that we review their patent claims and ensure that it was not open to weaknesses that allowed others to skirt by and avoid infringing what was intended to be the invention. This infringement analysis of their patent claims allows an extern to look at a patent from the other side of the aisle. It is important to consider how others might try to overcome or skirt by infringing actions when drafting patent claims. Performing this type of exercise is a great opportunity for externs to learn and see the ways would be infringers would try to bypass claim language. Working with a patent attorney to listen and learn how they look at claims and the ways in which they take specific steps and phrasing to avoid these issues is a skill that is learned only in practice.
I was able to sit in on a client meeting for an incoming client to discuss patentability of their invention and learn what they hoped to patent. Sitting in on this type of meeting allows the extern to learn what questions to ask, what types of questions clients will ask or information they want to know, and allows them to be informed on the invention so that when I have to help write claims, I know the specific aspects of the invention the client wants to capture. This is also a great opportunity because externs get to interact and put a face to the invention, this is someone’s idea and someone’s passion. It is great to see people’s enthusiasm for their idea and use that to motivate and help take extra care in writing the patent application remembering this isn’t just a random object but could become the next breakthrough or the person’s ticket to financial freedom.
During my third month at Lloyd & Mousilli I was able to work with my supervising attorney to strategically amend patent claims to overcome a difficult final office action. This office action was something that had crossed many attorney’s desks and been through the process several times. I was able to attend the examiner meeting with the attorney, this amendment is believed to be acceptable after the strategy that the attorney along with myself and another clerk collaborated on.
I was tasked with creating a patent family tree to track a patent that had over 25 related or interrelated patent continuations or continuations-in-part to the original. This is an important task and skill to have in dealing with patents. Once a patent family grows this large it becomes difficult to track the various patents and ensure all requirements are met without some organizational chart. It is a great exercise to better understand the size and scope that families can become which is not captured in the classroom typically.
I worked with a supervising attorney to file two trademark applications to the USPTO. Being able to have the guidance of an attorney to walk me through the process and to learn this skill is invaluable and a very useful skill to have for any IP practitioner.
I wrote another provisional patent for the firm applying the feedback I gathered in the previous patent I had written to continue to grow my patent drafting skills. Being able to work on and have the freedom to write a patent myself is something that is hard to replicate in a classroom and through a short class exercise. Patent writing requires intense concentration and time to learn the applicable technology in order to produce a meaningful result.
Wrote article relating to “The Intersection of SaaS (Software as a Service) and Patents”. Writing articles about currently trending issues in the IP space creates an opportunity to learn and research issues that are affecting clients in real time and learn about new aspect of the law or practice that may be subtle or nuanced. This allows the extern to learn about and become subject matter experts in sub issues that may become more and more relevant as time goes on.