Hartman & Citrin LLC - Partners
Jodi L. Hartman
Jodi Hartman is a partner and majority managing member with Hartman & Citrin LLC. During her almost 23 years of practice, Jodi has prepared hundreds of patent applications and prosecuted thousands of cases in a variety of fields including electrical devices, mechanical devices, software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, wire and cable manufacturing and tools associated with the same, and telecommunications technologies. Jodi also has experience with opinion work including drafting right-to-market (freedom-to-operate) opinions and non-infringement opinions. In the early years of her legal career, she gained valuable experience working on several patent litigations cases. She has also represented her clients in various trademark matters including preparing and prosecuting trademark applications.
Beyond her firm experience, Jodi served in a succunded in-house capacity for one of her large corporate clients, addressing a temporary need for additional IP legal support. Following this in-house tenure, she spent several years as designated review counsel for the same client, overseeing and evaluating the work product of other outside counsel to ensure quality and alignment with the client’s objectives.
Jodi has presented at CLE programs around the United States on various topics including patent drafting and prosecution quality, professional responsibility and ethics, and other topics.
Jodi received her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, cum laude, and her engineering degree from Clemson University, magna cum laude.
Jodi is licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and in the State of Georgia.
Yaakov Y. Citrin
Yaakov Citrin is a partner with Hartman & Citrin LLC. Yaakov has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in a variety of arts including defense technologies, electrical devices, mechanical devices, medical devices, packaging (including pharmaceutical and compliance packaging), software and user interface technologies, cloud computing technologies, artificial intelligence and neural networks technologies, block chain technologies, aviation and avionics technologies, and telecommunications technologies. Yaakov also represents clients in various post-allowance proceedings including patent reexamination and reissue proceedings, drafts patent opinions (including right-to-market/freedom-to-operate opinions and non-infringement/invalidity opinions), and has worked on patent litigation cases.
Yaakov prepares and prosecutes trademark applications and represents clients in various trademark disputes including assertion of trademark registrations, defense against claims of trademark infringement, trademark opposition proceedings, trademark litigation cases, and settlement discussions.
Yaakov also prepares license agreements, software development agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-use agreements, and other agreements. Yaakov also advises clients in building intellectual property portfolios, and leveraging and monetizing those portfolios.
Yaakov is a published author (Are the Secrecy Order Compensation Provisions of the Patent Act Constitutional Under the Fifth Amendment?, 1 Akron Intell. Prop. Journal 275 (2007)), a past-editor for the University of Akron School of Law Intellectual Property Journal, and has presented CLE programs on patent appeal strategy and procedure, various patent prosecution issues (including 101 issues under Alice and its progeny), and on various other aspects of intellectual property law in the United States and abroad. Yaakov currently serves on the Board of the Georgia IP Alliance and has served on the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Patent Office Practice (U.S.) Committee and as a voting member of the ABA Patent Office Affairs Committee.
Yaakov received his law degree and a certificate in intellectual property from the University of Akron School of Law and his engineering degree and a minor in English-World Literature from North Carolina State University.
Yaakov is licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, the United States Supreme Court, and in the State of Georgia.
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