JOSEPH M. MANAK, ESQ.
Joe Manak is a patent and intellectual property attorney, litigator, and trial lawyer who concentrates in patent prosecution, litigation, opinion work, licensing and other IP transactions, as well as copyright, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, anti-counterfeiting, antitrust and unfair competition law, and GDPR and data privacy matters. He practices in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, numerous U.S. Federal Courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and has instructed foreign counsel on patent matters before courts and patent offices throughout Europe and Asia. Joe also specializes in Hatch-Waxman cases, appeals practice before the U.S.P.T.O., and has significant expertise in patent-antitrust law and Digital Millennium Copyright take downs. Joe has practiced with such law firms as Kaye Scholer LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP. Joe has a five-star AV Martindale Hubble rating and was recognized as a NY-Metro Super-Lawyer™ in 2014-2016. Joe has published and lectured extensively on intellectual property and antitrust issues.
Joe’s patent and IP practice spans a very broad range of technologies and industries, such as software and algorithms, computer-implemented and Internet technologies, pharmaceuticals and small molecules, genomics and proteomics, biometrics, drug metabolism, medical devices medical testing, enzyme targets, financial products, electronic and mechanical devices, fibers, drug delivery systems, aerospace and defense, fashion and consumer products. Joe also handles anti-counterfeiting and domain name disputes in the U.S. and Asia. He has been registered to practice in the U.S.P.T.O. since 1988.
Joe also has an information technology, software, and biotechnology transactional practice, and negotiates and drafts licenses, distribution and service agreements, joint research and collaboration agreements, software development agreements, and other agreements relating to software and the biochemical sciences. Joe also advises clients with respect to open-source issues, and handles IP due diligence and other matters arising in mergers, acquisitions and financing.
Joe also supervises, prepares and prosecutes a wide variety of patent applications in such fields as biotechnology, software, chemistry, immunology, pharmaceuticals, new chemical entities, drug delivery and formulation systems, medical and analytical devices, satellites, and mechanical devices. He has been registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1988.