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William H. NeedleAdjunct FacultyBill Needle is the founder of Needle & Rosenberg, P.C., one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the Southeast. He has practiced patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law exclusively over his entire 35-year career. Bill is an adjunct professor of Licensing Law at Emory University School of Law and of Patent Law at Georgia State University College of Law. He is frequently appointed as a mediator or arbitrator in complex disputes involving intellectual property and commercial issues. Bill often serves as an expert witness in patent, trademark and copyright infringement actions. On several occasions, he has been appointed to serve as a Special Master by U.S. District Court Judges in patent infringement cases wherein his recommendations on validity, infringement and damages in two actions were affirmed by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He currently serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia for intellectual property law issues, is a Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of the State Bar of Georgia, and is also on the Advisory Board of The Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI: GER) program, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Emory Law School which prepares students for commercializing new technologies. In addition, Bill has served on the committee tasked with formulating Local Rules regarding patent litigation for the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Bill’s peers in the legal community voted him one of Georgia Trend magazine’s “Legal Elite” in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and named him one of the Top 100 Georgia "Super Lawyers" 2004-2006 in Atlanta magazine. He is also a certified “Memphis in May” barbecue judge. Bill graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1967), and he received his J.D. from the Emory University School of Law (1970). |
E-mail: BNeedle  @E R A S Eneedlerosenberg.com Office: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C. Suite 1000 999 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3915 Phone: (678) 420-9300 Fax: (678) 420-9301 Directory LinksCourses Taught: Patent Law |
