Hagler, Stephen H.

Joseph Haag is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Department, and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2001.

Practice

Mr. Haag's practice includes patent litigation, patent prosecution and client counseling for patent matters.

With respect to client counseling and patent prosecution, Mr. Haag counsels clients in various technologies including electronics and semiconductor manufacturing; electromechanical, mechanical and medical devices; cellular telephone and wireless devices; and methods of doing business. He has extensive patent prosecution experience for mechanical, electromechanical and business method inventions. He also has extensive experience in due diligence investigations for corporate transactions.

With respect to patent litigation, Mr. Haag has extensive experience in all aspects of IP litigation, including federal district court cases and International Trade Commission (ITC) actions. Mr. Haag's recent patent litigations have involved technologies such as cellular telephone and wireless devices, non-volatile computer memory, electronic devices and circuitry, lithography systems, and semiconductor fabrication and packaging.

Honors and Awards

• Recognized in the 2011 and 2010 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers for his intellectual property litigation practice
• Named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyers' Rising Star" in intellectual property law in the May 2005, 2006 and 2007 issues of Boston Magazine

Publications

• "Hilton Davis Chemical Co. v. Warner-Jenkinson Co.: An Equitable Solution to the Uncertainty Behind the Doctrine of Equivalents," 80 Minn. L. Rev. 1511 (1996).