John T. Johnson

John Johnson is a Principal in the New York office of Fish & Richardson.  His practice emphasizes patent and trademark litigation.

Admissions

• New York 1994
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Western District of New York
• United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the District of Arizona
• United States Patent and Trademark Office 1993

Memberships and Affiliations

Mr. Johnson is a frequent lecturer and author on intellectual property matters, and has taught classes in intellectual property law at Albany Law School of Union University. Memberships include: American Intellectual Property Law Association (Co-Chair, IP Practice in Japan Committee); New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Inc.; New York State Bar Association (Member, IP Section); The Federal Circuit Bar Association; United States Bar Association/Japan Patent Office Liaison Council; Association International for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

Other Distinctions

Publications
Publications include: "Japan Rethinks Whose Idea Is It Anyway?," Legal Times, April 4, 2005; "Employee Inventor Litigation Hits Japan," New York Law Journal, January 24, 2005; "Courtroom Technology in the United States," International Legal Strategy Magazine, December 2000; "Communication by E-mail: Discovery and Privilege in U.S. Litigation," International Legal Strategy Magazine, November 1999; and "The Crime-Fraud Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Immunity -- An Important Discovery Tool in Patent Infringement Litigation," IP Worldwide, March/April 1998.

Presentations
Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) Seminar, "Mock Markman Claim Construction Hearing," Tokyo, Japan, April 2002; Lorman Education Services CLE Program, "Copyright Protection for Computer Software," Albany, New York, June 2001; Tokyo High Court, IP Judges, "Courtroom Technology in the U.S.," Tokyo, Japan, April 2001; Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) Bi-Annual Seminar, "Patent Litigation Practice," Washington, D.C., October 2000; Diamond Corporation Legal Education Program, "Business Method Patent Infringement Litigation in the U.S.," Tokyo, Japan, June 2000; Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) Meeting, "The Attorney-Client Privilege/Work-Product Immunity and Japanese Patent Attorneys," Tokyo, Japan, May 1999; Japanese Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) Seminar, "The Doctrine of Equivalents After Hilton-Davis," New York, New York, May 1998; 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrators, "Copyright Considerations for Medical Illustrators: Registration and Enforcement," Baltimore, Maryland, July 1997; NYS Bar Association 119th Annual Meeting, "How to Protect Product Configuration Using Copyright," New York, New York, January 1996.

Education

• BS, Union College 1989
  Mechanical Engineering
• JD, Union University, Albany Law School 1993
  cum laude
  Managing Editor of Research and Writing, Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology