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Mr. Guenther's practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property law, including domestic and international patent and trademark acquisition and maintenance, IP litigation, trade secret protection, high-profile product and trademark clearances, due diligence efforts, and licensing. In his practice, he counsels and represents Fortune 500 companies, as well as a number of mid-size and start-up organizations in a wide variety of technical fields. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. district courts in several states and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a long-time member of the Licensing Executive Society. Before joining Dykema, he was a partner with Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, and prior to that he was a partner with Rader, Fishman & Grauer. From 1993-1999, Mr. Guenther served as in-house legal counsel and Director of Intellectual Property for a prominent Michigan-based plastics company with both domestic and international operations.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Detroit. Mr. Guenther also served as a legal intern to the Honorable Horace Gilmore of the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Before attending law school, Mr. Guenther was a practicing CAD/CAM engineer for General Dynamics' Land Systems Division and a design engineering consultant to Ford Motor Company's Advanced Vehicle and Project Alpha groups in Dearborn.
Experience
Representative Cases:
Plastipak Packaging, Inc. v. Mac-Jam, Inc. d/b/a Regent Bottling Company (W.D. Pa 1995)
Atma Enterprises, Inc. v. Ty, Inc. (Michigan District Court 1997)
Baxter Healthcare Corporation v. Spectranetics Corporation (D. Del. 1999)
Eaton Corporation v. Parker Hannifin Corporation (D. Del. 2000)
Steelcase Inc., et al. v. Smart Technologies, Inc. and Smart Technologies Corporation (W.D. Mich. 2003)
Eastman Outdoors, Inc., et al. v. Blackhawk Arrow Company, et al. (E.D. Mich. 2003)
Gold Tip v. Eastman Outdoors, Inc., et al. (D. Utah 2003)
Eastman Outdoors, Inc., et al. v. Precision Shooting (E.D. Mich. 2003)
Tapco International, Inc. v. Dinesol Building Products and Dinesol Plastics (E.D. Mich. 2004)
Doob LLC v. MSXI, Inc. (Michigan Circuit Court 2005)
Stumbo v. Eastman Outdoors, Inc. (D. Colo. 2005)
Seminars and Speeches
10/2005 Intellectual Property Considerations in Collaborations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Detroit, Michigan
6/2005 Intellectual Property Protection for Business Methods, Association of Corporate Counsel, MSU Management Center
Professional Associations
Federal Bar Association
State Bar of Michigan
Oakland County Bar Association
Licensing Executives Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association.
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