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Dallas
Granite Park Three
5601 Granite Parkway, Suite 750
Plano, Texas 75024
972.731.2288 Phone
972.731.2289 Fax |
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
Membership
- State Bar of Texas
- 2002-2003 Texas State Bar of Intellectual
Property
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- International Trademark Association
- Dallas Bar Association
- Dallas/Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law
Association
Recent Publications
" Aligning Trademarks with Business Objectives: A
Practical Guideline," March, 2002,
Texas State Bar Intellectual Property Section CLE
"Highlights of the Madrid Protocol," March,
2003 Dallas/Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law Association
CLE
Ms. Harkins has substantial experience in patent, trademark
and copyright preparation and prosecution, and business transactions,
including licensing, technology transfers, merger and acquisition
due diligence, uses of intellectual property on the internet,
opinion work, and other intellectual property transactional
work. She also has significant experience in patent and trademark
infringement litigation, as well as trademark proceedings
before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her expertise
is in the mechanical, chemical and electromechanical arts.
Ms. Harkins' primary focus is counseling clients in identifying,
developing, protecting, and defending their patents, trademarks
and copyrights, including maximizing the value of the clients'
intellectual property portfolio.
Ms. Harkins worked at Exxon Company, U.S.A. for five years
as a production and reservoir engineer for several oil and
gas fields in East Texas and Oklahoma. Her responsibilities
included designing new well completions and workovers of existing
wells, production equipment design and installation and economic
and reservoir evaluation, with a particular emphasis on secondary
recovery waterfloods. While at Exxon, she earned a Masters
in Business Administration from the University of Houston
in May 1988.
Ms. Harkins is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office and is licensed to practice before the
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Fifth
Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of Texas. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the
State of Texas.
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