PERSONAL PROFILE
IP PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Anthony Campbell is Of Counsel in the Austin, Texas office of HULSEYIP. He advises clients in patent-related matters involving electronics, wave theory, computers, communications and mechanical technology. His practice includes rendering opinions on patentability, validity and infringement issues; due diligence during mergers and acquisitions; counseling on intellectual property portfolio development; representing clients in licensing, litigation, Federal Circuit appeals and reexamination and reissue proceedings; and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. Mr. Campbell’s expertise encompasses a broad range of technologies including electronic components, telecommunications, electrical and optical connectors, GPS, printers, wave theory (EMI, RFI, transmission, acoustics and optics) and a broad range of computer technologies.
Mr. Campbell serves as the principal HULSEYIP attorney for all trademark application, prosecution and protection matters. He has extensive experience with opposition and cancellation issues before the Trademark Trials and Appeals Board (TTAB) and handles TTAB cases and other registration disputes. His trademark practice also includes advertising, marketing and contest law, along with use of image, likeness, name and voice. His litigation experience in the trademark area includes infringement, comparative and deceptive advertising cases, counterfeiting and dilution. With a broad background in marketing and commercial practices, as well as a deep understanding of trademark and related intellectual property legal matters, Campbell has the ability to provide to HULSEYIP clients a quality of service and responsiveness of the very highest caliber.
Anthony also works with visual, graphic and performance artists, authors, designers and architects on copyright licensing and infringement matters, and negotiates performance, reproduction and publication rights agreements. Representative work in this area includes negotiation of publication agreements for authors, graphic artists and photographers; creation of reproduction rights licenses for visual artists including works of a sculptor that are displayed at a major international resort with accompanying miniatures sold at a gift shop and works of painters used to create corporate logos; clearance of rights for a Texas resort to use images licensed by a non-profit organization from a bestowed work; licensing and royalty work for musicians and cease and desist issues related to infringement.
Campbell has extensive experience in computer and technology law. As an electrical engineer with work experience in computer architecture that has maintained an e-mail address since 1988, he was at the forefront of Internet legal issues, handling domain name litigation in 1996, and has continued his practice in the area, counseling clients on website user agreements, privacy policies, software licenses, website development and hosting agreements and general on-line, computer, copyright and intellectual property matters.
Aside from his work with one of America’s largest law firms and as general counsel of a leading manufacturer of inkjet printer supplies, Campbell has served as virtual general counsel or on the advisory board of multiple start-up companies. He develops corporate policy and strategy, and writes confidentiality, non-circumvention and non-compete agreements. Currently, Anthony is on the Board of Directors of a broadband management company and of a non-profit foundation.
In his free time, Anthony is an avid cyclist: HULSEYIP and Campbell have donated several thousand dollars of proceeds from his work to support his charitable bicycle rides, including rides from Houston to Austin, San Antonio to Austin, and Houston to New Orleans.
EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Austin (J.D.)
The University of Texas at Austin (M.B.A.)
University of Texas (B.S.E.E.)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS
State Bar of Texas
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES
Electronics and Computer Hardware & Software
Consumer Products & Services
Energy & Power Distribution Technologies
Telecommunications and Broadband
Internet & e-Commerce
Computer Networking, Management and Compression
Nanotechnology
Wave Theory
Semiconductor Processing & Devices
Entertainment, Advertising and Marketing
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP Dallas, TX (Associate)
JetFill, Inc. Houston, TX (General Counsel)
AT&T (Component Engineer)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Business and E-Commerce Law (Adjunct Professor, MBA Program), St. Edward’s University Austin, TX
