An associate in Merchant & Gould’s Minneapolis office, Joe has extensive experience in complex patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret matters as well as work in appellate and post grant proceedings. Joe focuses on identifying the critical aspects of the case that may drive a favorable settlement or be persuasive to a trial fact finder.
Joseph is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of St. Thomas with a degree in biology. Following undergrad, Joseph received a doctorate in biology and biomedical science with an emphasis in neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. While there, he used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how groups of regions of the human brain, known as networks, manifest task instructions during tasks. His attention-focused research on adults may be used to help diagnose attention disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Tourette syndrome in children.