John Herman
“We protect innovation. We enforce our clients’ patents vigorously and with integrity.”
John Herman has spent his career enforcing the intellectual property rights of famous inventors and innovators against infringers throughout the United States, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
John Herman has spent his career handling complex litigation, with a particular emphasis on patent litigation. His practice focuses on vindicating the rights of famous innovators. Noteworthy cases of his include representing renowned inventor Ed Phillips in the landmark case of Phillips v. AWH Corp.; representing pioneers of mesh technology – David Petite, Edwin Brownrigg and IPCo – in a series of patent infringement cases on multiple patents; as well as acting as plaintiffs’ counsel in the In re Home Depot shareholder derivative actions pending in Fulton County Superior Court.
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by his peers as being among the leading intellectual property litigators in the Southeast
- Regularly named as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine
- Named to the “Top 100” Georgia Super Lawyers list, 2007
- Named one of "Georgia's Most Effective Lawyers" by Legal Trend
Practices
Education
Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1992
- Editor-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Journal
- John Wade Scholar
Marquette University, B.S., 1988, Biochemistry, summa cum laude
Admissions
- Georgia
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
