John J. Cunniff

John J. Cunniff is a registered patent attorney and certified by the Florida Bar as a Specialist in Intellectual Property Law. Board certification recognizes attorneys’ special knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice. John provides advice on intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and legal opinions on patentability, infringement and validity issues. He prepares and reviews confidential disclosure and joint-development agreements, and trade-secret protection plans. John’ counseling also consists of prosecution of Internet domain-name complaints. 

John also deals with the preparation and prosecution of trademark registration applications and with utility, design and plant patent applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and worldwide. He also manages trademark registrations and issued patents domestically and internationally. His core technologies include biotech/biomedical, biochemical, plants, polymers, and biological and mechanical arts.

Prior to becoming an attorney, John spent seven years as a research associate for Amersham Pharmacia Biotech/US Biochemical Corporation, a major supplier of enzymes and reagents used in pharmaceutical research. He also worked for six years as a senior research associate at the Jackson Laboratory, a leading genetics research laboratory. He also holds a U.S. patent for Thermostable DNA Polymerase (#5,885,813) as well as corresponding patents in Canada, Japan and Europe.

John is licensed in Florida and Ohio. He is also licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Patent Matters. 

Accolades

• Four Hahn Loeser Attorneys Are Recognized as Being Board Certified by The Florida Bar
  February 03, 2023
• Hahn Loeser Adds Cunniff To Its Ranks of Board Certified Specialists
  August 01, 2017
• Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP Honored with Community Service Award by Akron’s Community Legal Aid
  April 30, 2009

• Speaker

  IP Specialist Certification (The Florida Bar)

  April 12, 2024
• Speaker

  Pro Bono and Professional Opportunities in Intellectual Property (The Florida Bar)

  April 11, 2024
• Author

  The European Patent System Is Changing

  March 02, 2023
• Author

  Phishing for Trademark Owners (Adverse Witness)

  February 02, 2023
• Author

  Warning Update – Trademark Office Impostors

  February 01, 2023
• Author

  Beware! Trademark Solicitations Designed to Confuse (Southwest Florida Business Today)

  September 20, 2022
• Author

  Russia, Ukraine and Patents

  March 31, 2022
• Author

  Year-End Intellectual Property “Housekeeping”

  December 31, 2016
• Author

  “Review of Patent Applications by Outside Parties: The ‘Peer to Patent’ Pilot Program,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  November 30, 2010
• Author

  “Is DNA Still Patentable?” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  May 01, 2010
• Author

  “When Does ‘Invention’ Happen? Inventorship and Conception of an Invention,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  September 30, 2009
• Author

  “Intellectual property protection in an economic downturn,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  May 14, 2009
• Author

  “Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domains,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  September 04, 2008
• Author

  “The Right of Publicity of Professional Athletes,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  May 07, 2008
• Author

  “Design Patent Infringement and the ‘Non-Trivial Advance’ Test,” John J. Cunniff, Esq.

  January 03, 2008