John Whitaker | Seattle Intellectual Property Lawyer

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About John

John Whitaker is the founder of Whitaker Law Group. For more than a decade and a half, John has been practing intellectual property law. His focus is on helping his clients secure and enforce their intellectual property rights. He has extensive experience in the computer arts, including software and hardware.

John's practice involves all aspects of intellectual property law, with special emphasis on the litigation of intellectual property disputes. John also has extensive experience helping his clients obtain and secure patent rights, most notably in the areas of computer software and hardware, telecommunications, and related technologies. An innate desire to learn combined with engineering work experience enable him to assist his clients with technologies ranging from the ordinary to the complex.

John also counsels clients on IP portfolio strategy and management, performs due diligence investigations, patent invalidity and non-infringement research, and other tasks related to intellectual property. He graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (1991) and received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Cumberland School of Law (1996), where he was a member of the Cumberland Law Review. The Copyright Infringement Advisor is a blog that John maintains to keep the public aware of goings on in the area of copyright infringement litigation.

For those clients that Whitaker Law Group accepts, we typically forgo hourly compensation in exchange for a percentage of the amount we recover for you. Our billing structure goes a long way toward leveling the playing field between small companies with few resources and the behemoths with countless attorneys on staff and sufficient resources to wage an expensive legal battle for years.

Experience

Judge Advocate

United States Army

2009 - present

Attorney

Merchant & Gould

2003-2005

Seattle, WA

Admission

Verified Washington

1999

Verified Alabama

1996

Education

University of Alabama in Huntsville

B.S.E.E (Electrical Engineering)

1990

Recognitions & Achievements

Honors / Awards
  • Commandant's List (top 20%), Judge Advocate General's School
    2010
  • Highest Class Standing-Contract and Fiscal Law, Judge Advocate General's School
    2010
  • Rising Star, Washington Law & Politics Magazine
    2004
  • Curia Honoris, Cumberland School of Law
    1997

Notable Work

Publications

Copyright Infringement Advisor, Copyright Infringement Law Blog,

2011


Graphically Altering A Pre-Calculated Route, U.S. Patent 6,263,278,

2001

Founded 2005

Whitaker Law Group Highlights

Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Complex Litigation

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