312-616-5600 (phone)
312-616-5700 (fax)
Chicago Office

Email Attorney
Download V-Card

Related Practices

• Litigation
• Patents
• Trademarks and Copyrights
• Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
• Interferences
• Pharmaceutical and Chemical Technologies
• Intellectual Property Transactions

Education

Jeffrey B. Burgan

Member

Mr. Burgan concentrates his practice in patent litigation and client counseling, as well as interferences to resolve first to invent disputes at the U.S. Patent Office. He has tried cases to a jury and to the bench. He is a member of the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. His patent litigation and interference experience has encompassed such varied technological fields as medical products and pharmaceutical and biotechnology based products, paper industry machinery, oil industry equipment and chemicals, electronic commerce kiosks, inks and paints. His experience also includes obtaining and enforcing copyrights and trademarks and he has represented performers, music producers and authors.

Mr. Burgan’s legal education includes training in both the common law and the European Civilian tradition. Prior to attending law school, he spent several years in engineering and management assignments with Texaco, Inc.

Professional Affiliations

• Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) (Treasurer, 2005; Has also served on the Association's Board of Directors)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• American Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Alumni Advisory Board
• Rose-Hulman Alumni Association (President, 2004-2005)
• Rose-Hulman Presidential Search Committee

Honors

• AV^® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated (Highest Rating) – Martindale-Hubbell
• Elected to serve on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, 2008
• Honor Alumni Award from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2007
• Selected by peers as a Leading Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law – Leading Lawyers Network
• Listed among the Top Lawyers in Illinois in Intellectual Property Law – Chicago Lawyer

Representative Matters

Litigation

• Kodak Inc. v. Agfa-Gevaert et al.
• Tristrata Technology, Inc. v. St. Ives Laboratories
• Solaia Technology LLC v. Appleton Papers, Inc.
• Pall Corp. v. Hemasure Inc.
• Pall Corp. v. Filtertek
• Paper Converting Machinery Inc. v. Fabio Perini
• Binney & Smith. v. Roseart Industries
• Hallmark Cards v. American Greetings
• Hallmark Cards v. Anagram Int. et al.
• Hicks v. Hallmark Cards
• Hallmark Cards v. Creatacard Ltd.
• James River Corp. v. Hallmark Cards
• Hallmark Cards v. Tackbary et al.
• Anderson v. Binney & Smith
• Petrolite Corp. v. Quaker Chemical et al.
• Oil Dynamics v. Baker Hughes Production Tools Inc.
• Lemelson v. Mitsubishi Electric et al.
• Sportmart v. No Fear Inc.
• Heatron, Inc. v. Fast Heat, Inc.
• Friction Coating Corp. v. Neff
• Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc et al. v. Novopharm Limited
• Pearce v. Walter Kidde Portable Equipment, Inc.
• North American Philips Corp. et al. v. American Vending Sales, Inc. et al.

Patent Interferences

• Doyle v. Koppolu
• Ehrenreich v. Brines
• Burriss v. Kwok
• Artwohl et al. V. Grassmuck
• Blackburn v. Wilhoit
• Nabel et al. v. Finkel et al.
• Natsoulis et al. v. Wiener et al.
• Mitsuya et al. v. Mimoto et al.
• Anderson et al. v. Selden et al.
• Anderson et al. v. Eppstein et al.
• Anderson et al. v. Morgan et al.
• Oliver v. Neff
• Davidson v. Cannon v. Goodman v. Buckley

Bar Admissions and Registrations

• Illinois, 1990
• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Louisiana, 1990

Courts

• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Member, Trial Bar)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Languages

• Spanish