Joanne M. Denison J.D., B.S.M.E.
JoAnne M. Denison is a patent attorney who has specialized in the area of patent, trademark and copyright law for the past 20+ years. She was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Thermo-Mechanical Engineering and received her law degree from Indiana University in 1985. During this time she has been associated with the law firms of Cook, Wetzel and Egan; Burditt and Radzius; and, Michael, Best and Friedrich where she was a partner.
Her trademark work includes foreign and domestic prosecution of patents and trademarks, including cancellations and oppositions and appeals before the TTAB and CAFC, and oral arguments and preparation before these courts. Trademark and patent transactional work included extensive foreign and domestic licensing and joint ventures Her patent areas include the fields of basic mechanical, biotech, software and electronics inventions both U.S. and foreign.
She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association. Her activities at the Chicago Bar Association include serving as Chair of the Patents Subcommittee for the years 1987-90, Vice-Chair of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee for the years 1990-91 and Chair of this same committee for the years 1991-92. She also served as legislative liaison for the CBA Women in the Law Committee for 1994-95. Her activities at the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago include serving on the Domestic/Foreign Trademark Committee and the Dinner Committee. And, she was for many years on the Chicago Bar Association Special Referral Panel as a recommended Patent, Trademark and Copyright lawyer.
She is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois, the State of North Carolina (inactive), the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent Office (Atty. Reg. No. 34,150).
Ms. Denison is married and has four children, Sean 21, Brendan 20, Matthew 17 and Melissa 14.
Marianne Buckley - Patent Attorney - J.D., B.S.
Ms. Marianne Buckley received her J.D., magna cum laude, with a concentration in intellectual property law from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, NJ in May 2011. She is also a member of the Order of the Coif. Marianne graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in French in June 2006. She is admitted to practice in Illinois and the U.S. Patent Office (Reg. No. 68,104).