Joe Byrne counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret law.

• Member of the American Bar Association (Section on Intellectual Property Law), American Intellectual Property Law Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Intellectual Property Law Association and the Dane County Bar Association
• Graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Order of the Coif
• Earned M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Admitted to practice before the Wisconsin State Court and U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
• Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

More about Joe:

Prior to entering law school, Joe was involved in the research and development of devices for imaging the human spine using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at General Electric Medical Systems in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He authored a paper entitled "Selectable Six-Element Multicoil Array for Entire Spine Imaging" which was presented at the 1990 Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) Scientific Assembly.

While in graduate school, Joe concentrated his efforts on the research and design of electronic circuits operating at microwave frequencies. His research efforts resulted in a United States patent and were presented at the 1989 Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineer's (IEEE) Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Symposium under the title "A Highly Directive, Broadband, Bidirectional Distributed Amplifier."