Harrity Diversity Hands

First Annual Harrity Diversity Summer Workshop Is A Great Success!

On May 22, 2017, Harrity & Harrity launched its first annual Diversity Summer Workshop. This program brought together undergraduates, law students, and recent graduates to learn about patent law. During this week long program, students attended presentations from Teresa Rea, Former Director of the USPTO, Courtney Holohan, Chief IP Counsel for Accenture, and Allen Lo, Deputy General Counsel of Patents at Google. They also had to opportunity to attend patent-related presentations from our Partners and Associates, and participate in hands-on training in drafting patent applications and responding to office actions.

Chief Diversity Officer, Sandra Maxey, says of the workshop, “This week was an incredible success and we hope to start looking for participants for our 2018 workshop soon to help diverse students with an interest in the patent field gain the skills to succeed as private practice attorneys, patent examiners, and in-house counsel.”

To learn more about the Diversity Summer Workshop and how to apply, click HERE.

Harrity Diversity Fellowship

Imran Hossain Selected as the 2nd Annual Harrity 1L Diversity Fellow

Harrity & Harrity is pleased to announce that Imran Hossain has been selected as the 2017 1L Diversity Fellow. Imran earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, and is working towards his Juris Doctor at Boston College Law School.

As a Diversity Fellow, Imran will receive mentoring from both associates and partners, a scholarship, and summer clerkship from mid-May until July.

Learn more about our Diversity Fellowship Program HERE.Imrain Hossain- Diversity Fellow

Elaine Spector, Harrity Team

Elaine Spector Joins Harrity & Harrity

Harrity & Harrity is excited to welcome Elaine Spector to our firm as Counsel. Elaine has more than 20 years of experience in intellectual property law, and her practice consists primarily of patent prosecution in electromechanical technologies. Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, she worked in private practice for nearly 15 years, and most recently she worked in-house for 6 years at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures.

Learn more about Elaine and the rest of the Harrity & Harrity team HERE.

Kevin Pickens Harrity Team

Kevin Pickens Joins Harrity & Harrity Team as Of Counsel

Kevin Pickens has joined the Harrity & Harrity team as Of Counsel. He has more than 20 years of experience in patent law both preparing and prosecuting patents, managing patent portfolios, and advising on IP issues. Kevin primarily works with electronics and computer technologies.

Prior to Harrity & Harrity, Kevin worked as a patent attorney, IP counsel, and patent operations manager at Motorola, where he prepared and prosecuted patent applications, advised on IP issues, and managed patent portfolios.

After Motorola, Kevin served as patent counsel for Apriva, where he developed the patent portfolio and created patent processes and tools for a growing company.

To learn more about Kevin and the rest of the Harrity & Harrity team, click HERE.

Jan Little-Washington Harrity Team

Jan Little-Washington Joins the Firm

Harrity & Harrity is excited to announce that Jan Little-Washington has joined our team as Of Counsel. Jan has more than 18 years of experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications, for electrical and computer technologies.

Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Jan practiced law for over 18 years with law firms based in Washington, D.C., and Seattle, Washington.  She has worked with developers, engineers, business leaders, in-house counsel, and university technology transfer professionals to identify methods of protecting intellectual property created from software, hardware, business methods, and internet related products and services.

Learn more about Jan and the rest of the Harrity & Harrity team HERE.