Mark H. Johnson Email & Phone Number

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Dallas, TX

• Intellectual property law associate focusing on a variety of patent prosecution and patent litigation fields, including telecommunications, semiconductor design, power generation, subsea and autonomous oil and gas.
• Represent clients in patent litigation and trade secret cases from the pleading stage through trial
• Develop direct and cross examination trial strategy and prepare client C.E.O. to testify
• Draft and file Inter Partes Review petitions
• Prosecute utility patent applications and monitor industry for infringement post-issuance
• Prepare Noninfringement Opinions analyzing competitor patents

Tuscaloosa, AL

• Completed prior art searches and patentability assessments for new technologies
• Performed market research and analysis for invention disclosures
• Developed marketing strategies for selected technologies

Houston, TX

• Drafted motion for judgment nunc pro tunc and appeared before family court in pro bono child custody suit
• Conducted review of prior art to assess §102 challenge raised by ex parte reexamination examiner
• Drafted memorandum analyzing the constitutional rights of bystanders to record police under 5th Circuit case law

Dallas, TX

• Drafted claims and wrote detailed description for patent application based on inventor interview
• Completed a review of case law to determine estoppel effect of certain references in litigation subsequent to an IPR
• Performed prior art searches for patentability assessments

Alexandria, VA

• Worked with the Central Reexamination Unit
• Completed Substantial New Question of Patentability analysis for U.S. patent 6,769,369
• Wrote Reexamination Order 90/013,521 for U.S. patent 6,769,369
• Assisted with Reissue Application 14/643,804 for U.S. patent 8,827,851

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed a device inventory system using C# and visual studio for internal device tracking
• Managed internal Wiki site by updating CSS styling and enabling page subscription functionality
• Updated interdepartmental Sharepoint sites in order to add new pages and resources

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Proofed patents to ensure that there were no discrepancies in the claim language post-issuance
• Conducted prior art searches to assisted with patent applications

Clemson, SC

• Undergraduate Departmental Honors Program:Completed undergraduate honors research under the supervision of Dr. Xiangchun Xuan. This research was focused on the development of a novel high-throughput technique for.
• Thesis: “Microbe Removal Using Reservoir-based Dielectrophoresis”
• Co-authored article published in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
• Submitted abstract and presented at the 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineering conference in Pittsburgh, PA
• Received training in microchannel fabrication, microscale flow visualization, and particle handling

Greater Atlanta Area

• Intern site leader responsible for organizing events for 42 intern peers
• Resolved 31 customer issues receiving an average net satisfaction record of 8.5/10
• Supported team projects amounting to $600k in cost savings or additional revenue by analyzing project impacts

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Targeted key accounts with declining sales trends by implementing data mining techniques which regenerated $673k in sales
• Performed a business impact analysis on potential upgrades to drive more volume to the service shop and was awarded a $100k appropriation request
• Updated 95% of the 982 legacy records in the switchgear installed base by researching company information and cold calling sites
• Worked in switchgear repair shop to get hands on learning about breaker design and help rebuild repaired switchgear

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Developed an interactive MATLAB interface to display forced outage factors in a three-dimensional plot to clearly depict the state of the gas turbine fleets
• Used Spotfire to make forced outage display tool available for online viewers to perform “deep-dives” into gas turbine trip events
• Correlated measures of unreliability to a timeline to observe trends in reliability, availability, and maintainability

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Developed OSIsoft PI monitoring and control pages for steam jet air ejectors on units no. 1 and 2 at the 1370MW Brandon Shores Generating Station
• Worked with suppliers and contractors to obtain equipment and have it installed with project savings of $45k
• Monitored secondary super heater outlet console data to detect and track temperature spikes for failure prevention

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law, Cum Laude

Intellectual Property Law Society, President Alabama Law Review, Senior Editor

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Calhoun Honors College, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi