Patent - Copyright - Trademark Attorneys Malin Haley DiMaggio Bowen & Lhota

Barry Haley, the senior partner of the firm, is a patent attorney who founded the firm with Eugene F. Malin (1936-1990) in 1969. Mr. Haley began his career as a Patent Examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1967 to 1969 in Group 230 specializing in static and dynamic magnetic storage devices. He has successfully litigated patent, trademark, and unfair competition cases in Florida State and federal courts. Mr. Haley's experience includes 8 years as Patent Counsel for CAE-LINK Corp., the leading manufacturer of flight simulators for commercial and military markets worldwide. While at LINK, Mr. Haley was actively involved in the preparation of complex software license agreements, Defense Department procurement regulations and corporate law.

Mr. Haley was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 22, 1939. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1961, where he received a 4 year Naval ROTC scholarship. After graduating from UCLA, Mr. Haley served in the United States Navy, achieving the rank of Lieutenant in Fighter Squadron 14 (VF-14) as a Naval Flight Officer, 1961-1965. He received his Juris Doctor from American University, Washington College of Law, in 1968. Mr. Haley was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1969 and The Florida Bar in 1970. He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the Broward County Bar, and the American Bar Associations.

Mr. Haley has broad patent experience in the electronic arts, including dynamic and static magnetic storage systems, communication and transmission devices, computers, digital image generation, virtual reality and simulation systems for flight simulation, telemedical products, and visual display systems using analog and digital computers and CRTs.

Mr. Haley also has extensive experience in patent litigation, acquisition of patented technology, licensing, and patent validity and infringement searches.

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Dale Paul DiMaggio, the managing partner of the firm, is a patent attorney with over twenty-five years experience in prosecuting and litigating patent, trademark, unfair competition, trade secret, and copyright matters. His technological background ranges from sophisticated electronics to complex mechanical systems, relying on his years of patent prosecution experience as well as his background as an electrical engineer for the Defense and Electronics System Center of the Westinghouse Corporation. His experience includes digital signal processors for long-range radar systems, wireless communication electronics, computer architecture, hardware and software, electromechanical devices, control systems and instrumentation, internet applications and business methods, manufacturing processes, and medical technology.

Mr. DiMaggio spends a substantial amount of time involved with the strategic planning in the creation, management, and commercialization of corporate intellectual property portfolios. This includes multi-faceted transactions and licensing. He is involved in the protection of clients’ proprietary rights, and often acts as the principal litigator in infringement lawsuits.

Mr. DiMaggio was born in Encino, California, July 12, 1956. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering with High Honors from the University of Florida in 1978, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida in 1983. He was admitted in 1984 to the Indiana and Florida Bars. He is a Florida Bar Board Certified Expert in Intellectual Property Law, and admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal and Eleventh Circuits, U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and Middle and Southern Districts of Indiana. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and Phi Delta Pi. He is also a member of the Broward County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations. Mr. DiMaggio is a member and former President of the Patent Law Association of South Florida, and also is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the International Trademark Association.

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Mark D. Bowen, a partner of the firm, is a registered patent attorney and Florida Bar Certified Expert in the field of Intellectual Property, with over fifteen years experience in prosecuting and litigating patent, trademark, and copyright cases. His technological background is in mechanical engineering with particular emphasis in the areas of heat transfer, refrigeration, and air conditioning systems drawn from his years as an engineering specialist and regional sales manager for the commercial equipment and controls division of Carrier Air Conditioning Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies. Mr. Bowen also has broad patent prosecution experience in the mechanical and electrical arts, including: electronic circuit board fabrication, aviation systems, robotics, emergency rescue devices, medical technologies, investment casting and photo polymerization manufacturing techniques, marine industry systems and sports related devices.

Mr. Bowen received his juris doctor from the University of Miami in 1994, where he was a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association, and a law review member for the University of Miami Yearbook of International law. Mr. Bowen has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, where he was honored as a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma honorary engineering societies.

Education
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1994 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1985

Bar Admissions Florida Bar
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Certification
Florida Bar Certified Expert in Intellectual Property

Recent Reported Cases
Craig v. Foldfast, Inc., 487 F.Supp.2d 1364 (S.D. Fla. 2007)
Craig v. Foldfast, Inc., 504 F.Supp.2d 1313 (S.D. Fla. 2007)

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David P. Lhota is a registered patent attorney with substantial experience in the patenting process, litigation and electrical engineering. Mr. Lhota has broad patent prosecution experience in the electronics field, including: cellular communications, pager technology, computers, local area networks, server data traffic management, intelligent controllers, electro-hydraulic and pneumatic control systems, automated measuring instruments, radio technology and medical instrumentation. Mr. Lhota has also litigated patent, trademark and copyright cases in Federal Court and has represented clients in negotiating and drafting intellectual property related licenses and other contracts.

Mr. Lhota is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a Member of the Broward County Bar Association, a Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and Member of the Patent Law Association of South Florida.

He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 1994. During law school, he was a legal and technical intern for a local firm, where he assisted in the prosecution of hundreds of patents. He also was a member of the law school's Intellectual Property Law Association and a student member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University, where he was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Prior to law school, Mr. Lhota was an electrical systems design engineer with Sikorsky Aircraft and Hamilton Standard, both divisions of United Technologies Corporation. While at Sikorsky, he designed and developed automated test systems for performing static and dynamic stress analysis testing on aircraft and aircraft components including transmissions, rotors, blades, etc. Mr. Lhota then spent two years with Hamilton Standard developing software-driven diagnostic test systems for performing diagnostic testing on electronic engine controls, environmental systems and fuel controls.

Education
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1994
B.S., electrical engineering, Tulane University, 1987

Bar Admissions
State of Florida
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Southern District of Florida
Middle District of Florida
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

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Catherine Ferguson is an associate with the firm and her practice includes copyright and trademark matters; both domestic and international trademark applications; representation of clients before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; patent, copyright, and trademark litigation and licensing; and entertainment law.

Mrs. Ferguson was born in Miami, Florida. Mrs. Ferguson received her B.A. from Florida International University in Miami, Florida in 1994. Mrs. Ferguson completed her Juris Doctor degree at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire in 1998. Mrs. Ferguson served as a legal trademark intern at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where she also held a summer job. Mrs. Ferguson is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle District of Florida.

Mrs. Ferguson is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Broward County Women Lawyers Association.

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James Keys, III, an associate with the firm, is a patent attorney with a technical background in computer science and systems development and management. His practice includes patent prosecution with a focus on pre-grant prosecution, federal and international trademark applications, strategic planning for developing and maintaining an intellectual property portfolio, and patent litigation matters.

Mr. Keys was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 16, 1979. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C in 2004 and his B.S. in Systems and Computer Science from Howard University in Washington D.C. in 2001. Mr. Keys is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the Florida and Ohio Bars.

Mr. Keys is also a member of the Broward County Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the National Society of Black Engineers.

Danielle H. Bratek, an associate with the firm, is an intellectual property attorney with her practice focused on federal trademark and copyright matters.

Ms. Bratek was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Jersey. Ms. Bratek earned her Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2004 and received her B.A. in Psychology, cum laude, from Salisbury State University in Maryland in 2000. Prior to joining the firm, her practice focused primarily on residential real estate and corporate matters.

Ms. Bratek is admitted to practice before the Florida Bar, and is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Florida, Broward County Bar Association, and an Executive Board Member for the Stephen R. Booher Inn of Court.

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