Joshua Harrison
Joshua Harrison, Ph.D. based in Newport Beach, California. 39 years of experience with specialization in Mechanical Engineering, Patent preparation, Patent prosecution.
Ph.D. ·
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.
Specialties
Work Experience
Practicing patent attorney: Patent preparation, prosecution, and litigation; opinions regarding infringement and validity; post-grant review and inter-partes review proceedings; advise clients re: patent licensing & negotiations, trademarks, contracts, trade secrets, evaluation of patent essentiality to standards, etc.
Patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio development strategy and quality & enforceability improvements, right to use investigations, infringement analysis, licensing & litigation support and strategy, manage outside counsel.
Member of a renowned patent litigation team.
Planned and directed the efforts of the department's scientists, engineers, and technicians. The department's mission: Technical screening of new technologies related to the magnetic head-media interface, and introduction of the most beneficial of such technologies into Seagate products, early in the design cycle.
Academic staff rank in Australia equivalent to Assistant Professor in the USA. Lectured mechanical engineering subjects, including Engineering Dynamics, Applied Dynamics and Elements of Machines, Data Acquisition and Instrumentation, Power Transfer Systems, and Acoustics. Supervised postgraduate students & research. Upgraded existing laboratory facilities.
Conducted research and advanced development of magnetic recording head suspension springs. Acted as the industrial liaison for a collaborative effort partially funded by AMC and undertaken at Cal Tech University.
Performed numerical study of constrained layer damping of a magneto-optical disk drive objective lens support structure. Designed, fabricated, and tested a novel angular position transducer used as part of a control system for objective lens actuation in a magneto-optical disk drive (see IBM Technical Disclosure # AM8-91-0176).
Experimental studies of disk drive components. Computer automation of test equipment.
Education
Credentials & Licenses
Cal. DOJ and NRA