Plano Office
Granite Park Three
5601 Granite Parkway, Suite 500
Plano, TX 75024-6608
Biography
Kristin Jordan Harkins is a founder of the Dallas Office of Conley Rose. She specializes in the development and management of worldwide patent and trademark portfolios and oversight of patent, trademark and copyright application preparation and prosecution. Her expertise includes client counseling to identify, develop and maintain intellectual property portfolios and representation of clients to resolve IP disputes. Ms. Harkins is also skilled in business transactions, including drafting and negotiating licenses and technology transfers, merger and acquisition due diligence and uses of intellectual property on the internet as well as the preparation of legal opinions. She has extensive experience developing in-house IP policies and procedures, including patent review committee standards. Ms. Harkins represents clients in trademark infringement litigation, trademark proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and domain name dispute proceedings.
Ms. Harkins maintains an extensive practice in the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign utility patent applications in diverse technical arts, including mechanical, chemical, computer software and business methods. Her trademark experience includes counseling clients in the procurement of U.S. and foreign trademarks and managing U.S. and foreign trademark portfolios.
Ms. Harkins’ experience includes five years as a production and reservoir engineer responsible for multiple oil and gas fields in East Texas and the Panhandle for Exxon Company, U.S.A. Her responsibilities included designing new well completions and workovers of existing wells, production equipment design and installation, and economic and reservoir evaluation, with an emphasis on secondary recovery waterfloods.
Practice Areas
Education
J.D., Honors, 1993
University of Texas School of Law in Austin
M.B.A., 1988
University of Houston
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, High Honors, 1983
University of Texas at Austin
Memberships
American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Vice Chair, Trademark Internet Committee
• Program Chair, Trademark Boot Camp Course
International Trademark Association
• Member, Information Resources Committee
Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Texas
• Newsletter Officer
• Program Chair, 2010 Advanced Trademark Workshop
• Planning Committee, Annual Advanced Intellectual Property Law Course
Publications/Presentations
"Does the PTO Really Want All This?, Managing the McKesson Mayhem," March 2009, Texas State Bar Intellectual Property Section Patent Prosecution Workshop CLE
"Highlights of the Madrid Protocol," March 2003, Dallas/Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law Association CLE
"Aligning Trademarks with Business Objectives: A Practical Guideline," March 2002, Texas State Bar Intellectual Property Section CLE
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