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WilmerHale Offices

950 PAGE MILL ROAD
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Joseph Haag

Work Department
Intellectual Property Counseling and Prosecution ; Intellectual Property Litigation ; Post-Grant Proceedings ; Intersection of Antitrust and IP ; Big Data ; Trials
Position
Partner
Vice Chair, Intellectual Property Department
Career
Joseph Haag is an experienced intellectual property lawyer who focuses on patent litigation, patent prosecution and client counseling for patent matters. Since joining WilmerHale in 2001, Mr. Haag has successfully represented a variety of technology clients, including in areas such as electronic circuitry and devices, semiconductor fabrication and packaging, cellular telephone and wireless devices, and software. Over the course of his career, he has advised on many aspects of intellectual property and has represented clients in patent litigation in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission.
Mr. Haag has extensive patent prosecution experience for mechanical, electromechanical and software inventions, as well as in due diligence investigations for corporate transactions.
Mr. Haag also has extensive experience in all aspects of IP litigation. His recent patent litigations have involved technologies such as IT service management, electrochromic glass, cellular telephone and wireless devices, electronic devices and circuitry, non-volatile computer memory, lithography systems, and semiconductor fabrication and packaging.
Memberships
California
Massachusetts
US Patent and Trademark Office
Education
JD, University of Minnesota, 1997
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1994
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense