Attorney Hal W. Milton, Jr. to Receive the 2016 Excellence in Intellectual Property Award

Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Attorney Hal W. Milton, Jr. will receive the 2016 Excellence in Intellectual Property Award at the 42nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute on July 21-23, 2016 at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.

The 2016 Excellence in Intellectual Property Award is presented by the State Bar of Michigan’s Intellectual Property Law Section and Mr. Milton was chosen as the recipient based on his significant contribution to the intellectual property law field, both through his legal practice and his dedication to teaching the next generation of patent lawyers.

Mr. Milton manages the Dickinson Wright Intellectual Property Academy to produce high quality patent applications by blending experience and training tools with the enthusiasm of law students and recent law graduates who are also degreed engineers or scientists. He has mentored over 200 new attorneys into the practice of patent law through his training program during the last 45 years. In addition, he serves as lead trial counsel in successfully litigating various patented technologies, assisting new enterprises in protecting their technology to entice investment or the sale of the enterprise, and overseeing the creation of patent, trade secret and trademark portfolios during periods of significant growth for several large corporations. Mr. Milton has taught patent prosecution at a number of law schools and currently teaches the preparation of a patent application at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association. He received his B.S. from Purdue University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law School.

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