ABOUT OUR FIRM

Calhoun Law Firm crafts creative legal solutions for businesses and individuals in need of guidance and courtroom representation in the areas of Intellectual Property and Business Law. We assist our clients in obtaining and enforcing competitive rights in their inventions, products and technology, works of art and marketing programs. Our services also include guiding clients in accomplishing many of the everyday endeavors encountered in starting or expanding a business. We do so in a manner which is readily understandable, prompt and cost effective.

Calhoun Law Firm maintains the staffing and professional relationships needed to satisfy the legal needs of our clients, no matter how large or small. When suggested by client circumstances, we implement creative solutions, confident in our ability to work both smarter and harder. Calhoun Law Firm consists essentially of Joe Calhoun, a seasoned business lawyer, together with the attorneys of Jack, Nelson, Jones, Fink, Jiles & Gregory to the extent desired; although Calhoun Law Firm is a separate and independent firm housed within that law firm, on a case by case basis a co-counsel engagement may be implemented. 

Mr. Calhoun offers legal expertise that many law firms do not always have in-house; our firm is often retained through referrals from clients' current attorneys or accountants, and we are proud of our working relationships with such referral sources. Naturally when our services are retained through such referrals, Calhoun Law Firm adheres to a "no poaching" policy; the firm voluntarily limits its engagement to the matters it was retained for. And Calhoun Law Firm is privileged to maintain good working relationships with other experienced attorneys, whom the firm may associate on a case if desired.

Joseph D. Calhoun III

After earning his Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University, and graduating from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1983, Joe Calhoun returned home to Little Rock, Arkansas and clerked for the Arkansas Court of Appeals. He then entered private practice with a well known business law firm, departing as a partner on the eve of 2000 to better concentrate his legal practice in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights and business competition.

Mr. Calhoun has over twenty years of experience in commercial litigation and counseling, and he has been honing his specialization in intellectual property law since approximately 1993. Mr. Calhoun's primary practice areas include procurement, transfer and enforcement (or defense) of intellectual property rights, business start-up organization and expansion, commercial competition, employment law, and a wide variety of business contracts and business disputes.

Examples of some of his legal work include the following:

·Assisting a number of wholesalers and retailers protect product designs and their competitive edge, and regulate their foreign manufacture and domestic supply.

·Legal representation of a veterinary health research company in licensing technology patented by the United States Department of Agriculture, pursuing foreign patenting of related research, and structuring sublicenses with companies within and outside theUnited States.

·Representation of a non-profit company (non-governmental organization) in obtaining and maintaining domestic and foreign trademark registrations, including counseling the NGO in connection with involvement in USAID projects.

·Counseling an animal feed manufacturing company in structuring domestic and foreign distribution agreements.

·Representing an inventor of wound treatment biotechnology (and his succeeding start-up company) in pursuing patenting of technology and registration of trademarks within the United States and in foreign countries; subsequent representation of the inventor in sub-licensing of technology from the initial start-up company for use in other fields.

·Counseling a start-up equine products company in licensing negotiations with companies within and outside the United States.

·Representing a start-up agri-biotechnology company in licensing technology patented by the Unites States Department of Agriculture, pursuing patenting of improvements, and negotiating sublicensing with companies within the United States and in foreign countries.

·Representation of a foreign corporation in obtaining protection for product designs, and defending against allegations of patent infringement in the United States.

·Defense and prosecution of actions involving claimed infringement of patents, copyrights and trademarks, in addition to related causes of action for unfair competition, false advertising, deceptive trade practices, tortious interference with business relations, trade secret misappropriation and breach of non-competition and non-disclosure ageements.