Mitch Harris is a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and electrical engineer with over 20 years of combined professional experience. Since 2001, he has been located in Northeast Georgia. His present firm was established in the Spring of 2006 to better serve corporate clients in high tech electronics, systems and software industries as well as to provide intellectual property (IP) law services to the local community, including Rabun to Athens/Clarke Counties. Previously he was a named partner with an Arizona-based IP boutique, operating an office in Georgia for five years. Prior to that, he was an Associate with an Austin-based IP boutique.

Mitch has been prosecuting patent applications since 1998, and has prepared and prosecuted over 500 patent applications, both in the U.S. and internationally, with over 200 U.S. Patents presently issued. He advises on litigation matters in the electronics and mechanical arts, renders clearance and patentability opinions, performs intellectual property due diligence studies, and advises on trademark, trade secret and copyright matters for both large corporate clients and individuals.

Mitch was a design engineer and project manager, both in the corporate workplace and as a consultant from 1984–1999. His areas of experience include analog/digital electronics, electromagnetic and microwave systems,  software, including operating systems and device drivers and languages including Ruby, C#, java, C, C++ and assembly, communication systems and control systems. He holds patents in the areas of Phase Lock Loop techniques (U.S. 5,408,055), digitizer computer peripheral techniques (U.S. 5,436,598) and Internet-based food auction and sales systems (U.S. 7,505,929). He has been employed by divisions of Emerson Electric Co. and Lockheed-Martin Corporation as well as smaller private and public start-up companies. He has also acted as an engineering liaison in Japan and as an instructor in other countries in Asia in support of commercial and military technology transfer, systems integration and maintenance training.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998
Texas, 1999
Georgia, 2003

State Bar of Texas and Intellectual Property Law Section
State Bar of Georgia and Intellectual Property Law Section
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association

Juris Doctor, Arizona State University College of Law, 1999.

Graduate studies emphasizing communication/radar systems, antennas, RF electronics and microwave component design, California State University, Northridge 1985-1987

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, cum laude, California State University, Northridge 1985 (Electronics)