Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Mr. Johnson's background includes litigation of product liability cases, environmental and antitrust matters. From 1994 to 1997, Joe was involved in several product liability cases resulting in jury verdicts exceeding $1 million. He was also instrumental in settling a Qui Tam action against Teledyne Industries for almost $5 million.

Joe handles matters involving patent and trademark prosecution as well as antitrust matters, trade secret consultation and intellectual property litigation.

His representative clients include medical device manufacturers, physician investors, international manufacturers, sporting goods companies, chemical companies, a telecommunications consulting and engineering firm, a stainless steel fabricating company and several publishers, as well as numerous small businesses and individual inventors.

Areas of Practice

• Telecommunications
• Waste Management
• Intellectual Property
• Patents
• Licensing and Preserving Ownership of Data Rights
• Risk Management
• Trademarks
• Technology Transfer and Licensing
• Corporate Transactions
• Copyright
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Licensing
• Internet Litigation
• Water Regulation
• Environmental
• Environmental Litigation

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Licensing

Bar Admissions

• Missouri, 1994
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Missouri Bar
• American Bar Association
• Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association
• The Order of the Barristers
• Phi Delta Phi

Honors and Awards

• Senior Articles Editor, Tulsa Energy Law Journal
• Pave Environmental Competition Finalist

Education

• University of Tulsa College of Law, 1994
  J.D.
• Drury University, 1989
  B.A.

Published Works

• Firm Obtains Success in Highly Contested Trademark Opposition on Behalf of Advanced Animal Nutrition, 2009
• Springfield Business Journal: Joe Johnson Named 40 Under 40, 2006
• Cunningham, Harpool & Cordonnier L.L.C. Merge with Lathrop & Gage L.C., 2003

Address

1845 S. National
P.O. Box 4288
Springfield, MO 65804

Phones

(417) 877-5902 (Business Phone)

Faxes

(417) 886-9126 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.lathropgage.com/