Joshua Harrison
Ph.D. ·
Newport Beach, California
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About
Mr. Harrison's extensive work experience encompasses both the private and public sectors. As a co-founding partner at Barcelo & Harrison LLP, he has practiced as a patent attorney, handling patent preparation, prosecution, litigation, and post-grant review proceedings. His expertise extends to patent licensing, trademarks, contracts, trade secrets, and evaluating patent essentiality to standards. Previously, he served as a patent attorney for Western Digital Corporation and the renowned law firm Irell & Manella LLP, where he was part of a prominent patent litigation team.
In addition to his legal career, Mr. Harrison has held various engineering roles, including lecturing at the University of Queensland and working as a research engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Applied Magnetics Corporation. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and holds several U.S. and foreign patents as an inventor, further solidifying his technical expertise.
Mr. Harrison's background also includes distinguished military service, having served as a Strategic Military Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, attaining the rank of Major. He has received accolades such as the Joint Service Achievement Medal and has held top-secret security clearances, underscoring his reliability and trustworthiness.
Mechanical Engineering
Patent preparation
Patent prosecution
Patent litigation
Infringement analysis
Validity analysis
Post-grant review
Inter-partes review
Patent licensing
Patent negotiations
Trademarks
Contracts
Trade secrets
Patent essentiality evaluation
Credentials & Licenses
California State Bar
US Patent & Trademark Office
Institution of Engineers, Australia
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
US Government Top Secret security clearance
DLPT qualified Spanish linguist
Certified pistol and firearms safety instructor
Cal. DOJ and NRA
Licensed private pilot
Airborne qualified, US Army
Licensed skydiver, US Parachuting Association
Licensed and experienced motorcyclist
PADI Advanced Open Water SCUBA diving certification
Education
JD
Stanford University, School of Law
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of California, San Diego
MS Mechanical Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of California, San Diego
BS (cum laude), Mechanical Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of Southern California
Experience
Patent Attorney & Co-Founding PartnerCurrent
Barcelo & Harrison LLP
2007–Present
Patent Attorney
Western Digital Corp.
2004–2007
Patent Attorney
Irell & Manella LLP.
2002–2004
Manager, Adv. Mechanical Integration Dept.
Seagate Technology
1996–1999
Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering (Tenureable)
Univ. of Queensland
1994–1996
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Applied Magnetics Corporation
1993–1994
Research Engineer
IBM Corp., Almaden Research Center
1991–1991
Development Engineer
IBM Corp., Storage Products Div.
1989–1989
Engineering teaching assistant & research assistant
UCSD
1987–1992
Awards
Joint Service Achievement Medal
1999
Memberships
California State Bar
association · Member
US Patent & Trademark Office
association · Licensed
Institution of Engineers, Australia
association · Member #837927
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
association · Member #2374171
Publications
1
Magnetic Head Gimbal Having Two Degrees of Freedom with Localized Torsion and Bending for Respective Degrees of Freedom
1995
Patent
2
Magnetic Head Gimbal Suspension with Double Dimple
1997
Patent
3
Method and Apparatus for Lifetime Prediction of Gas Lubricated Interfaces in Data Storage Devices
1995
Patent
4
Method of Making a Magnetic Head Gimbal Suspension Assembly with Double Dimple
1997
Patent
5
Preloaded Gimbal in a Head Suspension for Limiting Head/Disc Separation
2001
Patent
6
Slider with Pads and Textured Landing Zone For Disc Storage System
2002
Patent
7
Crossed texture head disc interface
2002
Patent
8
Disc Drive Anti-Shock Suspension Cushions
2003
Patent
9
Safety Device for Snowboards
2004
Patent
10
Safety Device for Snowboards
2005
Patent
11
On the convergence of U.S. and Australian Patent Law
Melbourne Journal of Int. Law · 2001
Other
12
Attracting the World's Policeman to Protocol I Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions
United States Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies · 2003
Other
13
Raising Healthy Patents
New Matter, State Bar of California · 2014
Other
14
A Recent Patent Class on the Scope of IPR Estoppel at the PTAB
Journal of Business and Technology Law · 2018
Other
15
Post Civil War Firearm Patent Litigation Against the U.S. Government
The Journal Jurisprudence · 2019
Other
16
Numerical studies of damped suspensions for an optical focusing actuator
Adv. Info. Storage Syst. · 1991
Other
17
Non-repeatable runout of cantilever and doubly supported 5 1/4 inch disk drive spindles
Precision Engineering · 1991
Other
18
A comment on constrained layer damping structures with low viscoelastic modulus
Journal of Sound and Vibration · 1991
Other
19
Disk surface acceleration effects due to air flow induced by rotation
Adv. Info. Storage Syst. · 1991
Other
20
Combined tuned and constrained layer damping of a Type 13 magnetic recording suspension
IEEE Trans. on Magnetics · 1993
Other
21
Air flow around the tip of an obstruction between co-rotating disks
Adv. Info. Storage Syst. · 1993
Other
22
Tuned constrained layer damping of a cantilevered plate
Journal of Sound and Vibration · 1994
Other
23
The Double Dimple Magnetic Recording Suspension and its Effect on Fly Height Variability
Journal of Tribology · 1995
Other
24
Effect of Mandrel Skew Induced Roll Bias on Suspension Structural Resonance
Adv. Info. Storage Syst. · 1995
Other
25
Design of Laminar Dampers for Advantageous Compromise Between Tuned and Constrained Layer Damping Behaviour
Machine Vibration · 1995
Other
26
Combined tuned and constrained layer damping design
Proc. Int. Conf. Vibration & Noise · 1995
Other
27
Non-repeatable runout and starting characteristics of small self-acting air bearing spindles
Int. Magnetics Conf. (INTERMAG) · 1993
Other
28
Capacitive Relative Position Error Transducer for Galvo Mirrors
IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement · 1996
Other
29
Non-repeatable runout measurement and simulation of fluid lubricated spindles
IEEE Trans. Mag. · 1996
Other
30
Identification of slider/disk contacts using the energy of the acoustic emission signal
Joint MMM-IEEE Intermag Conf. · 1997
Other
31
Ultrasonic wear acceleration of head-disk interfaces operating in near-contact
Joint MMM-IEEE Intermag Conf. · 1997
Other
32
An experimental apparatus for appraisal and comparison of vibration in high rise elevator cars
Elevator World · 1998
Other
33
The physical effects of intra-drive particulate contamination on the head-disk interface in magnetic hard disk drives
Journal of Tribology (ASME) · 1999
Other
34
Prediction of Drive Level Flying Height Distribution Based on Drive Component Variations
J. Info. Stor. Proc. Sys. · 1999
Other
35
Flying height response to mechanical shock during operation of a magnetic hard disk drive
Journal of Tribology (ASME) · 2000
Other
36
On scope and assessment in modern engineering education
International Journal of Engineering Education · 2002
Other
37
Guns, Dogs, CMRR and Money
35th Annual Research Review, UCSD Center for Memory and Recording Research · 2018
Other
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