Laurence & Phillips IP Law

about

Joseph Hawkins

Resume

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

  • Laurence & Phillips IP Law, Washington, D.C., Partner, 2023

  • Hawkins IP, Salt Lake City, Utah, Owner, 2019–2023

  • Stoel Rives LLP, Salt Lake City, Utah, Partner, 2016–2019 and Associate, 2007–2015

  • Fish & Richardson, San Diego, California, Summer Clerk, 2006

  • Novell, Inc., Provo, Utah, Extern, 2006

  • Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, Portland, Oregon, Summer Clerk, 2005

  • Workman Nydegger, Salt Lake City, Utah, Extern, 2005

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

  • NextPage, Inc., Draper, Utah, Senior Software Engineer, 2003–2004

  • Novell, Inc., Provo, Utah, Software Engineer II, 2001–2003

  • iLumin Corp., Orem, Utah, Software Developer, 2000–2001

  • Novell, Inc., Provo, Utah, Software Engineer, 1999–2000

  • BYU Reconfigurable Logic Laboratory, Provo, Utah, Partner, 1996–1999

Education

  • J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007

  • Brigham Young University, M.S., Elec. Engineering, 2001

  • Brigham Young University, B.S., Elec. Engineering, 1996

Bar and Court Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

  • Utah State Bar

  • Not admitted in D.C.

PUrLiCAtiONs

  • “What Should be Patentable? Supreme Court Considers ‘Intangible Patents,’”

    The Enterprise, December 14–20, 2009.

  • Contributing author: “A CAD Suite for High-Performance FPGA Design,”

    published in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, April 1999.