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Telephone:  256-535-1100
Facsimile:  256-533-9322

Street Address:
Suite 102
2101 West Clinton Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35805
Mailing Address:
Post Office Box 2087
Huntsville, AL 35804-2087

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J. Mark Bledsoe

Practice Areas

Profile

Mr. Bledsoe's practice is centered in the areas of intellectual property and corporate law. He helps clients protect, manage, and leverage their intellectual property by preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications; by assisting clients with the formation and operation of limited liability companies, partnerships, joint ventures, and corporations; and by advising clients about sales contracts, license agreements, publishing agreements, employment agreements, and other sophisticated tax-advantaged business arrangements.

Mr. Bledsoe has a bachelor's degree in biological engineering and has completed master's level course work in analytical chemistry. Among others, he has worked with the following technologies: wireless sensor networks, biomedical instruments and implants, dietary formulations, and cell culture systems.

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 2004
  • Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006

Court Admissions

  • All Alabama state courts

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Alabama Bar Association
  • Huntsville-Madison County Bar Association

Publications

  • “An Audit Worth Soliciting,” Technology Alabama, Spring 2010. (This article concerns the role of the intellectual property audit.)
  • “Knorr-Bremse: Willful Infringement, the Affirmative Duty of Due Care, and the Adverse Inference,” Newsletter of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Alabama State Bar Association, November 2004.
  • “Computer Simulation of Trabecular Remodeling Using a Simplified Structural Model,” co-author, Bone, 1999.
  • “Dynamic Coating Using Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Chemical Control of Electroosmotic Flow in Capillary Electrophoresis Microchips,” co-author, Analytical Chemistry, 2000.

Education

  • LL.M., 2007, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • J.D., cum laude, 2004, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
    Senior and Junior Editor, Alabama Law Review
    All-American Scholar
    Phi Delta Phi
  • B.S., magna cum laude, Biological Engineering, 2000, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
    President, Institute of Biological Engineering, 1998-1999
    Gamma Beta Phi
    Phi Eta Sigma
    Phi Kappa Phi
    Golden Key
    Tau Beta Pi
    ASAE National Robert E. Stewart Engineering Humanities Award
    Congressional Intern, 1999

Other Experience

  • Research assistant, Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, 2000. Conducted research on microfluidic devices involving microchip capillary electrophoresis, microfabrication techniques, cell culture techniques, electrochemical detection, and ultraviolet absorbance detection.