Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Intellectual Property

Parnter

With more than 30 years of experience, Joe Micallef has built a reputation as a trusted advocate for clients in intellectual property disputes involving cutting-edge technologies. His experience includes navigating complex litigation involving artificial intelligence, 3D memory, cellular technology, reconfigurable computing systems, computer microarchitectures, operating systems, search engines, semiconductor fabrication techniques, satellite television, and solar cell design. Joe has litigated cases before federal district and appellate courts, federal agencies (including both the ITC and the PTAB), and arbitration panels, handling all phases of litigation from pre-litigation strategy through trial and appeal.

Joe represents clients, both large and small, on intellectual property enforcement and defense strategies, including investigating potential infringement and asserting IP rights in courts across the country, and defending against the assertion of IP rights by others. He is the leader of Axinn’s Post Grant Procedures practice, representing clients in nearly 200 inter partes review proceedings under the America Invents Act.

Beyond his practice, Joe teaches Trade Secret and Patent Law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and has done so for over twenty years. Before entering private practice, he clerked for Justice Joseph T. Walsh of the Delaware Supreme Court, gaining experience in corporate and business law. An accomplished author, he has co-edited two editions of Duvall’s Unfair Competition and the ITC and has authored several articles on patent-related topics.

JD – University of Virginia School of Law (1991) BS, Electrical Engineering – Catholic University of America (1988)