R. Mark Halligan

FisherBroyles, LLP
Mark is a partner at FisherBroyles, LLP, focusing his practice on intellectual property litigation in the United States and abroad. He is a leading practitioner in the development of automated trade secret asset management blockchain systems and co-author of Trade Secret Asset Management 2018: A Guide to Information Asset Management including RICO and Blockchain. Mark is also the lead author of the Defend Trade Secrets Act Handbook, 3rd Edition, published by Wolters Kluwer and General Editor of the Intellectual Property Law Handbook 2021 published by the Illinois Continuing Legal Education Institute (IICLE). He has taught Advanced Trade Secrets Law at John Marshall Law School for the past 26 years and is past president of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC).