Theodore D. Lienesch

Practices

• Intellectual Property
• International
• Life Sciences

Professional Experience

Ted is a registered patent attorney and a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. He focuses his practice in domestic and foreign patent and trademark prosecution; copyright prosecution; intellectual property licensing, including technology transfers, joint venture agreements and trade secret licensing; patent and trademark validity and right-to-use studies; and copyright, trademark and patent infringement litigation. Ted is admitted to practice in the state of Ohio, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Technical Experience
Automotive (engines and power transmission), turbo-machinery, material handling equipment (including lift trucks and control systems), electro-mechanical systems, manufacturing processes, safety clothing construction, plastic injection molding machinery, surgical instruments, data communication systems, inkjet printing systems and electronic commerce.

Education

• University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1976, Law Review Editorial Board
• University of Michigan, B.S.E., 1973, cum laude, mechanical engineering, with emphasis on mechanical design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, hydraulics and automatic control systems

• "Patentee's Threat to Discontinue Purchases Constitutes Unlawful Attempt to Monopolize," · Patent Law Review, 1975
• Contributor, "Doing Business in and With the United States", 1999
• Contributor, "Couse's Ohio Form Book," Vol. 1 (6th Ed.)
• Executive Editor, INTA Bulletin of the International Trademark Association - 2002 - 03

• "Survey of International Software Protection", Cincinnati Bar Association
• "Protecting Intellectual Property Internationally", Cincinnati Bar Association
• "Best Practices in Patent Prosecution for 2005", Thompson Hine LLP
• "Creative Strategies for Building, Maintaining and Protecting Your Trademark Assets", Thompson Hine LLP
• "How to Avoid Unwittingly Becoming One's Own Lexicographer - Phillips and Its Progeny", Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association

• Who's Who Legal USA - Trademarks 2008
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2012
• Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine in 2008