Joe is a registered patent attorney and the founding member of Tessari Patent Law Group, pllc. He has over twenty-three years of experience as an intellectual property lawyer and is deeply experienced in all aspects of intellectual property
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Joe began his career as an associate at the intellectual property boutique firm of Paul & Paul in Philadelphia. During his six years at the firm, Joe gained extensive experience in patent preparation and prosecution as well as trademark and copyright practice, and litigation experience at the district court and appellate levels.

In 1991, Joe joined the intellectual property group in the law department at E.I du Pont de Nemours & Company in Wilmington, Delaware. At various points in his tenure at DuPont, Joe served as lead counsel for the Haskell Laboratory of Toxicology & Industrial Medicine, served on the DuPont bioscience safety committee, served as lead counsel for the DuPont Qualicon® business, served as lead counsel to the superconducting films business, managed the transgenic animal licensing program and the chiral catalyst licensing program, and served as lead intellectual property counsel for the DuPont Performance Coatings business unit, where he supervised five other patent professionals (attorneys and agents) in Wilmington, Delaware and Wuppertal, Germany.

Joe left DuPont in 2001 to become Intellectual Property Counsel for Tyco Technology Resources in Wilmington, Delaware. In that capacity, Joe provided strategic counseling and legal support for several operating divisions of Tyco Electronics, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In 2004, Joe became the Director of Intellectual Property and Senior Patent Counsel at Tredegar Corporation in Richmond, Virginia. At Tredegar, Joe oversaw the entire intellectual property portfolio of, and provided strategic counsel to, Tredegar Film Products Corporation and The William L. Bonnell Company, both operating subsidiaries of Tredegar. In his tenure at Tredegar, Joe developed policies, procedures and an infrastructure for effective management of the intellectual property assets, resulting in a 40% reduction in spending on outside counsel fees.

Prior to founding Tessari Patent Law Group, pllc, Joe was a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Troutman Sanders, LLP in Richmond, Virginia. Joe joined Troutman in January 2007 as the first patent attorney in the firm located outside of its Atlanta office and help to develop a robust patent practice in Richmond to complement the existing trademark and IP litigation expertise at Troutman Sanders.

Throughout his career, Joe has accumulated experience in a diverse array of technologies, including fasteners; locks; latches; polymerase chain reaction; aqueous ink jet inks; photographic emulsions, fixers and developers; electrostatic toners; phosphorescent materials; polymers; dispersions; superconducting materials; chiral catalysts; dyes; photomasks, photoinitiators, and other photosensitive materials; microbial diagnostic processes and devices; potassium titanyl phosphates (blue lasers); oncogenics; transgenics; nanotechnology; packaging apparatus; electrical connectors and housings; active and passive electronic components; radar sensors; patch panels; stamping apparatus; pick-and-place apparatus; circuit board manufacture; antennas; disposable absorbent articles for personal care and hygiene; design and manufacture of films, laminates and composite webs; and numerous manufacturing processes and apparatus. In addition, Joe has experience in developing in-house IP management processes and procedures, such as processes for invention disclosure, invention evaluation, infringement detection, product clearance, filing strategies and protection of confidential information and trade secrets. He also has extensive experience in transactional matters concerning intellectual property rights, such as purchase and sale transactions, assignments, licenses, intellectual property audits, and due diligence reviews. Joe has conducted reviews and authored opinions regarding patentability, infringement and validity matters and has participated in litigation at the trial and appellate levels on trade secret misappropriation and related intellectual property matters.