Halluin

• IP Counseling & Patents
• Life Sciences
• Stem Cell

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

University of Baltimore School of Law

J.D.

1969

Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry Louisiana State University

B.A.

1964

Inducted in 2006 into the University of Baltimore School of Law's Hall of Fame and awarded a Governor's Citation from the State of Maryland for distinguishing himself through exceptional professional achievement and enduring impact on the legal profession

One of only 10 attorneys named to the IP Law and Business Patent Prosecution Hall of Fame

Credited in Scientific American as the first individual to recognize the patent potential (he was also involved in writing the patent) for the Nobel Prize-winning polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process, now in use worldwide (which won the 1998 National Inventors Hall of Fame award)

Primarily responsible for many other award-winning patents, including: A gene sequence that enables testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer (a patent that won the 1998 IPO Inventor of the Year Award)

Cetus Interleukin-2, a genetically-engineered drug (a patent that won the 1986 IPO Inventor of the Year Award)

"Patent Strategies for Biotech," Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention and Ideas, Sunnyvale, California, March 2005

"Patent Strategies of Biotech Startups," Regional Mensa Event, San Francisco, California, November 2004

"Enforcement of Biotechnology Patent Rights," ATCC Biotechnology Practice, American Intellectual Property Law Association, May 1991