About Alan
Alan Harrison combines engineering education and law school training in a practice centered on patents. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2005, the place he studied highbrow real estate law. He is licensed to the Connecticut bar and is registered to practice earlier than the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
He started operating in patent practice as a patent agent in 2007 at McCormick, Paulding & Huber. That position put him on the technical side of prosecution work. In 2010 he have become an attorney at the same company, moving from agent to attorney and taking over duty for drafting and prosecuting patent applications.
Over the subsequent numerous years he expanded his practice to serve a variety of inventors and companies that wanted help protecting mechanical and electromechanical improvements. In 2016 he joined Otterstedt, Ellenbogen & Kammer as an attorney, dealing with patent preparation and prosecution and counseling clients on patentability and filing approach. He stored operating on technical innovations, often drawing on undergraduate mechanical engineering education to evaluate innovations and form declare language.
In 2023 his résumé indicates numerous firm changes. He worked as an attorney at Botos Churchill IP Law after which at Whitmyer IP Group. Later that year he have become Principal at Sandollar. The moves reflect a trail thru numerous boutique highbrow estate practices, every targeted on patents and client counseling. Throughout those changes he persisted to work before the USPTO and in Connecticut courts and regulatory things where relevant.
Outside of his practice he participates in expert and alumni organizations. He remains a current member of the Connecticut State Bar. He also serves at the board of the Central Connecticut chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, which ties back to his undergraduate education.
He is licensed as a patent lawyer by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and holds active registration there. He works with clients on patent prosecution, drafting patent applications and responses to workplace actions, and advising on portfolio development and patentability assessments. He practices at Sandollar Law, the place his work makes a speciality of patents for mechanical and related technology.
