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Mr. Augustyn represents clients in high stakes intellectual property litigation, licenses, agreements, mergers & acquisitions, client counseling, and prosecution. Leveraging his prior experience in management and as an engineer at Fortune 100 companies, he understands that IP and business issues require creative and cost-effective legal solutions. Mr. Augustyn has been an international speaker at over 60 programs to thousands of corporate and outside counsel. Also, he has been an instructor and advisor for over 15 years total at Loyola Law School and Northwestern Law School. Mr. Augustyn has been selected for several honors including Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, Top 50 Lawyers in America, IAM Patent 1000, and Fellow to Litigation Counsel of America.

Mr. Hamp assists clients in all aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on the litigation and enforcement of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret rights. He represents clients from a variety of industries in the preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications before the USPTO, including applications related to the chemical, healthcare, mechanical, computer software, sporting goods, and household products fields. Mr. Hamp has successfully prepared and/or prosecuted applications in many technology areas, including for pharmaceuticals, food and beverage compositions, chemical catalysts, malware detection methods, and semiconductor devices. He also provides counseling and opinion work for utility patent, design patent, trademark and copyright matters, including freedom to practice and validity assessments, domestic and foreign infringement investigations, drafting of license and transfer agreements, and other strategy counseling.

Professor Sarnoff received the 2018 DePaul Spirit of Inquiry Award, as well as numerous awards for his scholarship. He is an internationally recognized expert on the intersections of intellectual property law, environmental law, health law, and constitutional, administrative, and international law. In June 2019, Professor Sarnoff testified before the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on pending legislation to revise subject matter eligibility doctrine under Section 101 of the Patent Act. From January 2014 to July 2015, he served as the Thomas A. Edison Distinguished Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professor Sarnoff directed the DePaul Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and organized and moderated the 2018 Jaharis Health Law Symposium on Emergency and Technological Responses to Pandemic Diseases and the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Intellectual Property Scholars Conferences (IPSC). He also hosts the annual Edward D. Manzo Scholars in Patent Law series.