Tim Headley

Current

Owner at Headley IP Law
Member at American Intellectual Property Law Association

Past

Partner at Wright Brown, & Close, LLP
Partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP
Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP

Associate at Baker Botts
Associate at Arnold White & Durkee

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Education

University of Houston Law Center
Dallas Theological Seminary
University of Houston

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Tim Headley’s Summary

In my 20+ years of specializing in intellectual property, I have represented clients in over 60 trademark and unfair competition disputes, 12 patent disputes, 6 copyright disputes, and 6 trade secret disputes. I have written over 100 patents, covering devices such as a relief valve, random access memory, a digital marine seismic cable, a geophone spring, erasable optical memory, laser beam steering apparatus, floating point to logarithm converter, smart erase algorithm for flash EPROMs, air gun, acoustic transducer, seismic vibrator, hydrophone, heart-assist system, differential pressure controller, and covering methods such as detecting possibly electrically-open connections between circuit nodes, mathematical modeling of underground geologic volumes, collecting SQL performance measures, predicting pore pressure in a 3-D volume, retreiving data from a relational database, acquiring seismic data, restoring coronary blood vessels, and managing multiple wells in a reservoir.

I have filed over 250 federal trademark registration applications. I have successfully sued over 50 entities on behalf of various trademark owners for trademark infringement and trademark dilution. I have represented trademark owners in various trademark oppositions and trademark cancellation proceedings. I have obtained favorable judgments and settlements for various patent owners. Periodically I publish a primer on the latest laws governing the Internet, both civil laws, and criminal laws.

Tim Headley’s Specialties:

My law practice includes all forms of intellectual property: software licensing, e-commerce, litigation of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes; patent prosecution; and management of worldwide trademark programs.

Tim Headley’s Experience

Owner

Headley IP Law

(Law Practice industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

I help inventive people protect their creations by getting them patents, trademark registrations, and copyright registrations, and then suing those who infringe those patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
Member

American Intellectual Property Law Association

(Law Practice industry)

1985 — Present (24 years )
Partner

Wright Brown, & Close, LLP

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Law Practice industry)

October 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Partner

Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP

(Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

November 2000 — October 2006 (6 years )

Partner in a law firm
Partner

Haynes and Boone, LLP

(Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

January 1995 — November 2000 (5 years 11 months)

Partner with this law firm.
Associate

Baker Botts

(Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

January 1989 — December 1994 (6 years )

Associate
Associate

Arnold White & Durkee

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Law Practice industry)

August 1983 — December 1988 (5 years 5 months)

Associate, practicing patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law; both transactional and litigation.

Tim Headley’s Education

University of Houston Law Center

J.D. , Law , 1981 — 1984

Activities and Societies:

Order of the Coif, Order of the Barons
Dallas Theological Seminary

Th.M. , Theology , 1972 — 1976
University of Houston

B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1967 — 1971

Activities and Societies:

Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.