Michael A. O'Neil
Dallas, Texas
Principal
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(469) 235-3996 (Mobile)
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Profession:
- Intellectual property attorney, counselor, and expert witness
- Admitted to practice in Illinois and Texas
- Registered patent attorney, Registration No. 23,007
Professional Distinctions:
- More than 35 years experience in writing, prosecution and advocacy of patents combined with more than 15 years experience in litigating patent, trademark, and copyright cases.
- Founder of the first intellectual property group within a major Dallas law firm.
- Substantial and significant experience in all phases of patent, trademark, and copyright law.
- Proven track record in all phases of intellectual property litigation including dozens of trials, mediations, and hundreds of negotiations.
- Outstanding success in prosecution matters resulting in the issuance of thousands of patents and trademark registrations.
- Formidable credibility as an expert witness due to the daily practice of intellectual property law combined with up-to-the-minute legal knowledge.
- Intellectual Property Law
- Patent Law
- Copyright Law
- Trademark Law
- Trade Secret Law
- Unfair Competition
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Illinois
- Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Supreme Court
- DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois,
1967
J.D.
Honors: Phi Alpha Delta
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
- University of Michigan, Michigan,
1963
B.S.E.
Honors: President, Pi Tau Sigma
Honors: Phi Eta Sigma
Honors: Tau Beta Pi
Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Sustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Sustaining Life Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation
- Outstanding Young Lawyer of Dallas,
1976
- Licensing Executive Society,
1983
- Present
- Member
- Licensing Executives Society,
1974
- President
- Dallas Bar Association,
1983
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1986
- Director
- Dallas Bar Association, 1985
- Secretary,Treasurer
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Texas
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- United States Trademark Association
- Member
- Dallas Junior Bar Association,
1974
- President
- Dallas Bar Foundation
- Charter Member
- Bar Association of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,
1989
- Present
- Director
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- Member, History Committee
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Member
- American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Patent Clerk, Patent Agent, Patent Attorney,
1963
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1968
- Richards, Harris & Hubbard, Associate,
1968
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1974
- Richards, Harris & Medlock, Stockholder, Director,
1974
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1983
- Gardere & Wynne, Partner,
1983
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1999
- Phi Eta Sigma
- Tau Beta Pi
- Phi Alpha Delta
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