J. Randy Hibshman
Associate
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J. Randy Hibshman

Associate

J. RANDY HIBSHMAN, a patent attorney in the firm's Mechanical Patent Prosecution practice group, drafts and prosecutes patent applications for clients in the mechanical arts. 

Mr. Hibshman draws upon more than 12 years of engineering and project leadership experience with United Technologies Research Center, GE Global Research, GE Energy, and Dominion Resources.  As an engineer, Mr. Hibshman primarily conducted research and development in the fields of energy and propulsion technologies, as well as semiconductor and high-temperature materials.  His specific areas of technical expertise include combustion systems for gas turbines and diesel engines, exhaust gas aftertreatment, turbomachinery, chemical reactor design, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and system-level optimization of combined cycle (gas turbine + steam turbine) power plants.

Mr. Hibshman is named as an inventor on seven granted U.S. patents, with other patent applications still pending before the USPTO.  Accordingly, his technical depth and practical experience enable him to communicate effectively with scientists, inventors, and business leaders to procure the broadest patents possible to meet their business goals.

American Bar Association / Bureau of National Affairs award for “superior academic performance and interest in Intellectual Property,” (2011)

Giles S. Rich Memorial Patent Law Moot Court Competition: awards for Best Appellant Brief, Best Appellee Brief, and Second Place Overall in the Southern region; and semi-finalist in National competition (2010)

Member of GE Global Research Dushman Award winning team for “marketplace impact with the Tier II EvolutionTM Series locomotive,” (2005)

Certified Black Belt in Six Sigma quality process (2004)

NASA Group Achievement Award for “successful demonstration of the capability to suppress high-frequency combustion instability for aircraft engine applications through active control,” (2003)

Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society (1994)

Publications

Thompson Documents
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Geneva Pharm., Inc. v. Glaxosmithkline, PLC Should Be Overruled!
Monday, January 2, 2012

Is the Respondent’s Entire Specification “Prior Art” on a Motion for a Judgment of No-Interference-In-Fact?, 17 Intellectual Property Today, No. 9 at page 8.
Charles L. Gholz & Joell R. Hibshman II

Determination of Lean Burn Combustion Temperature Using Ultraviolet Emission, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 8 IEEE Sensors J. 255 (Mar. 2008).
Dale M. Brown, Peter M. Sandvik, Jeffrey B. Fedison, Joell R. Hibshman & K. S. Matocha

Correlation of Single-Cylinder to Multi-Cylinder Performance for a Medium Speed Diesel Engine, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings of the Spring Technical Conf. of the ASME Int’l Combustion Engine Div. 257 (May 2006).
Jennifer A. Topinka, Joell R. Hibshman & W. D. Glenn

Silicon Carbide Photodiode Sensor for Combustion Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 5 IEEE Sensors J. 983 (Oct. 2005).
Dale M. Brown, Jeffrey B. Fedison, Joell R. Hibshman, J. W. Kretchmer, Leo Lombardo, K. S. Matocha & Peter M. Sandvik

Experimental Study of Entrance Effects on Laminar Gas Flow Through Silicon Orifices, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 7 Proceedings of the IEEE Int’l Conf. on Micro Electro Mech. Sys. (MEMS) 655 (2005).
Aaron J. Knobloch, George Wu, Joell R. Hibshman & Richard Saia

Longitudinal-Mode Combustion Instabilities: Modeling & Experiments, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Technical Memorandum 2000–210067 (2000). 
Jeffrey M. Cohen, Joell. R. Hibshman, William Proscia, Thomas J. Rosfjord, Brian E. Wake, John B. McVey, Jeffrey Lovett, M. Ondas, John DeLaat & Kevin Breisacher

Experimental Replication of an Aeroengine Combustion Instability, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME Paper 2000-GT-0093 Presented at the Int’l Gas Turbine & Aeroengine Cong. & Exposition (IGTI), Munich, Germany (May 2000).
Jeffrey M. Cohen, Joell R. Hibshman, William Proscia, Thomas J. Rosfjord, Brian E. Wake, John B. McVey, Jeffrey Lovett, M. Ondas, John DeLaat & Kevin Breisacher

Active Control of Combustion Instability in a Liquid-Fueled Sector Combustor, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME Paper 99–GT–215, Presented at the Int’l Gas Turbine & Aeroengine Cong. & Exposition (IGTI), Indianapolis, Ind. (June 1999).
Joell R. Hibshman, Jeffrey M. Cohen, Andrzej Banaszuk, T. Anderson & Hans Alholm

An Experimental Study of Combustor Air Swirler Acoustic & Fluid Dynamic Sensitivities, Propulsion Engineering Research Center, Presented at PERC 9th Symposium on Propulsion, Cleveland, Ohio (Oct. 1997).
Jeffrey M. Cohen & Joell R. Hibshman

Dyson files suit to enforce design and utility patents for its bladeless fan
Friday, May 04, 2012

Digest of new and closed design patent cases from April 9-20, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Wal-Mart and Oakley were among the parties to 8 newly-filed cases and 5 closed cases involving design patents during the two-week period of April 9-20, 2012.  A tabulated summary of these cases is posted here.  Some cases that...

Digest of new and closed design patent cases from Mar. 19 to April 6, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

In light of the positive response we received from our earlier Design Patent Digest post, we decided to post another.  A table of newly filed and closed design patent cases from March 19, 2012, to April 6, 2012,...

Digest of new and closed design patent cases from Feb. 6 to Mar. 16, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012

We have found it helpful, and interesting, to track newly filed and closed design patent cases on a weekly basis.  In hope that readers of our Protecting Designs Blog might benefit as well, we have tabulated our search results...

Oakley drops utility patent claims and proceeds with design claim following Markman hearing; court declines to construe the design claim
Monday, March 12, 2012

On March 5, 2012, Oakley entered into a Covenant Not to Sue either Predator Outdoor Products or Hunter Specialties under U.S.

Lindby Custom successfully enforces a design for motorcycle parts, but would the proposed PARTS legislation have affected the court’s ruling?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

On February 15, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered Default Judgment in the matter of Lindby Custom, Inc. v. AMI Group (case no. 8:10-cv-01779).  In its ...

Oakley concludes one successful enforcement suit and continues another
Thursday, February 16, 2012

On February 9, 2012, Oakley, Inc., concluded a successful suit to enforce eyeglass utility and design patents in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (Oakley v. Talitor Far East Co. Ltd et al., case no. 3:2011-cv-01305).  The...

NIKE files a complaint alleging footwear design infringement
Friday, February 10, 2012

NIKE, Inc. filed a complaint against QiLoo International Limited, a Chinese company, on February 6, 2012 (case number 2:2012-cv-00191 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada), alleging infringement of 23 U.S. design patents, listed below.
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Skechers files a complaint alleging footwear design infringement
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. filed a complaint against The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc., on February 2, 2012 (case number 2:2012-cv-00928 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California) alleging that Children’s Place manufactures, imports, sells, and offers to sell a line of footwear that “embodies and...

Crocs, Inc. files complaint against Walgreen Co. alleging footwear design infringement
Friday, November 18, 2011

Crocs, Inc. filed a complaint against Walgreen Co. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on November 11, 2011.  The complaint alleges that Walgreen “manufactures, uses, offers for sale, sells, and/or imports molded footwear throughout...

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