Dale B. Halling is a registered patent attorney with 18 years of experience and has served as a patent expert witness.  Mr. Halling has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. in Physic and J.D. cum laude from St. Louis University.  Mr. Halling is the author of the well known blog on patents, State of Innovation.  He is also author of the book The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation.

Work Experience

Law: Mr. Halling is a patent attorney specializing in high technology companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.  Mr. Halling’s practice is located in the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator.  In the mid 1990’s Mr. Halling worked in-house for Motorola, preparing and prosecuting patent applications throughout the world in the fields of cellular communications, communication systems, cable telephony, error correction coding, manufacturing systems and printed circuit board technology.  Since leaving Motorola, he has prepared and prosecuted patents for Ameritech, SBC, Motorola, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, MCI, Cypress and several local high technology start-ups.  These patent applications have covered: semiconductor circuits; internet applications; software, telecommunication systems: including ATM, Frame Relay, SS7 applications; fiber optic systems; computer memory systems; cable telephony systems; voice recognition systems; encryption; XML; database applications and others.

Other Work: Mr. Halling spent several years as a systems engineer performing research and development in free space laser communication systems at McDonnell Douglas.  He has worked with numerous start-ups and is a founder and owner in a fishing products company that has products in Cabela’s, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Gander Mountain, and numerous regional retail outlets.  Mr. Halling is a member of the Board of Falcon Works a non-profit organization that helps cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy design and develop technology-based solutions for disabled individuals and our community.  Falcon Works focus its efforts on projects that require significant creativity, innovation, and design work and help improve the lives of many people in our community.

Publications

Book: The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation, 2009

Blog: State of Innovation

The State of Innovation is one of the better known blogs on Patent Law, Patent Policy, and Growth Economics.  The blog contains over 280 articles and 800 comments.  At least 90% of the articles were authored by Mr. Halling.  His articles have been reproduced in numerous websites around the world including IPWatchdog, Not PC – New Zealand, The Vincenton Post – Philippines, Capitalism Magazine, and Political Pistachio.

Articles Written by Dale B. Halling

“Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand on Patents/Inventions)”                                     7/30/11

“When This American Life Attacks Patents”                                                            7/26/11

“Did Midas Mulligan Run a Fractional Reserve Bank”                                            7/17/11

“Phil the Expatriot: How the US is Driving Technical Talent Away”                      7/08/11

“Mayo Clinic’s Invention Theft Strategy”                                                                6/25/11

“Mayo vs Prometheus- Supreme Court Grants Cert (Again)                                   6/25/11

“America Invents Act H.R.1249 passes House”                                                      6/24/11

“House Debate on Constitutionality of H.R.1249”                                                  6/22/11

“First to File: Is it Constitutional?”                                                                          6/19/11

“Patent Office Fees an Unconstitutional Tax”                                                         6/15/11

“The Myth of the Sole Inventor: a Socialist Diatribe by Prof. Mark Lemley”        6/15/11

“Good News On Patents From the Supreme Court”                                                6/10/11

“52 Courageous Congressmen Question Constitutionality of America Invents Act” 6/8/11

“America Invents Act will Not End Fee Diversion- Paul Ryan Thinks

Stealing From Inventors is A-OK”                                                                        6/8/11

“Patent Reform a Sham: Data Tresuary Story Exposes True Motives”                    6/6/11

“Why the America Invents (not) Act is Bad for the US Economy”                          6/3/11

“Wall Street is Un American”                                                                                   6/2/11

“COICA: Double Standard”                                                                                      6/1/11

“Keynesian Economics: Theft Creates Wealth”                                                       5/27/11

“Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: America Invents Act-Bad for America, Good for

Multi-National  Corporations”                                                                               5/26/11

“Introduction to Trademarks”                                                                                    5/24/11

“Nathhaft Interviews: Startups Create All Jobs”                                                       5/21/11

“Great Again: Corp Tax Rate Driving Jobs Overseas”                                             5/20/11

“Why the Publication Requirement for Patents Hurts Startups”                               5/11/11

“Galileo ‘Invention Theft Worse Than Murder’”                                                      5/10/11

“Edison Was a Patent Troll”                                                                                      5/8/11

“SOX: Shooting Ourselves in the Head”                                                                   5/7/11

“Patent Allowance Rate Up to 46%”                                                                         4/29/11

“Stealing From Inventors”                                                                                         4/26/11

“How the America Invents Act Changes Patent Law”                                              4/26/11

“David Boundy: Call to Action”                                                                                4/26/11

“The Make-UP of the CAFC:Update”                                                                       4/25/11

“Adam Mossoff Lecture: Ayn Rand on Intellectual Property”                                 4/24/11

“The Birth of Plenty: Predictions”                                                                             4/21/11

“Could Apple Get Funded Today”                                                                            4/18/11

“Atlas Shrugged-Movie Review”                                                                              4/15/11

“Are Transaction Costs for Patents Too High?”                                                        4/15/11

“Monopoly/Rent seeking vs. Property Rights/Intellectual Property”                        4/14/11

“The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry,

And Invention”                                                                                                      4/13/11

“More Evidence of US Bankruptcy/Inflation”                                                          4/11/11

“Forbes Jumps on the Anti-Patent Anti-Intellectual Bandwagon”                           4/10/11

“America Invents Act Will Increase Patent Application Backlog

And Will Not Encourage Innovation or Job Creation”                                         4/2/11

“Bipartisan Opposition to America Invents Act in House”                                        4/1/11

“Manzullo on America Invents Act”                                                                     4/1/11

“Alice in Wonderland at the Patent Office”                                                           3/31/11

“US Goes Bankrupt in 2019”                                                                                3/30/11

“Dis-Intergration of the United States”                                                                 3/25/11

“IPO Dearth: How Sarbanes Oxley is Killing Innovation”                                   3/21/11

“Patently Ignorant: Business Insider Article on Google Doodle Patent”              3/20/11

“The Economist Weighs In On Patent Reform”                                                    3/17/11

“Quantitative Easing II is Working-Thanks Ben”                                                 3/16/11

“Inventor on First-To-File is Bad for Small Inventors”                                         3/15/11

“Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy: Another Rambling Diatribe                      3/3/11

for Open Source Marxist Utopia”

“Senator Feinstein: First Inventor To File a Ruse”                                                3/2/11

“S.23 Patent Bill Unconstitutional”                                                                        3/2/11

“Patent Reform First Inventor to File Misleading”                                                 3/1/11

“Conservative Groups: Patent Reform Bill a Disaster for US”                               2/25/11

“Fundamentals of Economic Science: An Objectivist Approach”                          2/20/11

“Science or Religion: Environment al Doomsday Theories”                                  2/15/11

“Déjà vu All Over Again: Undoing the Reagan Revolution”                                  2/5/11

“Patent Deform Act of 2011: Approved by Senate Committee”                              2/8/11

“Reagan’s 100^th Birthday”                                                                                        2/7/11

“Unemployment: The Big Lie”                                                                                2/8/11

“Patent Ombudsman Program: A First Review”                                                      2/4/11

“More Evidence on the Damage Caused by SOX”                                                   2/3/11

“Obama: Crony Capitalism Will Create Jobs”                                                          2/2/11

“Larry Kudlow: Chinese Economy Relies on Stealing

US Intellectual Property”                                                                                 2/1/11

“Obama: Make Regulation Efficient”                                                                      1/19/11

“George Will: US Suffering  From Innovation Dearth”                                           1/14/11

“Repeal of Financial Reform?”                                                                                 1/12/11

“CAFC Appointments”                                                                                             1/10/11

“USPTO Announce First Satellite Office”                                                              12/29/10

“Net Neutrality: Requiem For the Internet”                                                            12/28/10

“The Value of Charity”                                                                                            12/21/10

“Federal Budget deficit:Omnibus Spending Bill Killed”                                        12/17/10

“Long term Economic Predictions”                                                                         12/16/10

“Making Patents Incontestable”                                                                              12/10/10

“Regulatory Bill of Rights”                                                                                     12/2/10

“Walker digital vs. Facebook”                                                                                11/30/10

“Ayn Rand and Economics”                                                                                   11/28/10

“Nobel Prize Not Enough For Patent Critics”                                                        11/12/10

“Failing of free Market Theory”                                                                             11/8/10

“Sustainability isn’t  Sustainable”                                                                           11/2/10

“Regional Patent Offices”                                                                                        11/2/10

“Inventing Wealth”                                                                                                  10/24/10

“USPTO Allowance Rate Increase to 45.6%”                                                         10/24/10

“Nancy Pelosi: Theft Creates Jobs-A Modest Proposal”                                        10/18/10

“QE2 Equals Hyper Inflation”                                                                                10/17/10

“Toward a Hard Science Approach to Economics 2”                                             10/8/10

“ Toward a Hard Science Approach to Economics 1”                                       10/7/10

“Food Stamps Multiplier Effect: Economic Voodoo”                                        10/5/10

“More Evidence that Stealing Inventions is a Business Strategy”                      10/5/10

“More on The Myth That Patents are Monopolies”                                              9/29/10

“Frank Holmes CEO of US Global Investors-SOX

Killing Financial Markets”                                                                             9/29/10

“Patents Critical Indicator of Success”                                                                 9/29/10

“SOX Causes Delay in Facebook IPO”                                                                9/27/10

“Were Recessions of 2000 and 2008 Both Caused by Easy Money?”                 9/25/10

“$30B for small Business Lending”                                                                      9/23/10

“Patent reform-The Big Lie”                                                                                 9/16/10

“Could Congress Abolish Patents and Copyrights?”                                            9/10/10

“The High Cost of Marketing and Selling an Invention”                                     9/6/10

“The US Economy and the State of Innovation”                                                 9/2/10

“Rent Seeking and Patents”                                                                                  8/26/10

“Open Question to David Kappos and trademark Community”                          8/24/10

“Makeup of CAFC”                                                                                              8/17/10

“Invention- A Financial Analysis”                                                                       8/15/10

“What is the Economic Impact of Start-ups?”                                                    8/13/10

“Restore Patent Funding to Create Jobs”                                                             8/10/10

“Another Study Shows the Value of Patents”                                                      8/6/10

“Are Patents Relevant?”                                                                                       8/5/10

“The Rational Optimist: Excellent Book, Disfigured

by Open Source Utopianism”                                                                7/29/10

“American Inventors for Patent Reform”                                                        7/20/10

“Job Growth Due to Startups”                                                                         7/14/10

“Investing in Startups Less Risky than Stock Market?”                                  7/10/10

“Innovation vs. Invention”                                                                               7/13/10

“Avik Roy’s Excellent Analysis of Drug Patent Settlements”                         7/8/10

“Equitable Estoppel: Another Excuse for Stealing Inventions”                       7/3/10

“Bilski: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”                                                       6/29/10

“Q. Todd Dickinson: Patent Reform”                                                               6/23/10

“Copyrights: another Example that Government is Not doing

Its Job”                                                                                                    6/20/10

“Non-Obviousness: a Case Study in Judicial Activism”                                   6/18/10

“Confusing the Property Right with the Implementation

Of the Property Right”                                                                             6/15/10

“Corporations Have the Rights of a Person?”                                                    6/8/10

“Patent Ignorance”                                                                                              6/7/10

“Patent Bill We Can Support”                                                                            5/25/10

“More Evidence Sarbox is Hurting Our Economy”                                            5/20/10

“Judge Michel-Economy Recovery Requires  Strong

Patent System”                                                                                                5/18/10

“Still Subsidizing Banks and Wall Street”                                                          5/15/10

“US Reps. Maanzullo(R-IL) and Michaud(D-ME)

Oppose Patent Reform”                                                                                 5/10/10

“Source of Economic Growth”                                                                            5/8/10

“Patents and Jobs”                                                                                                5/8/10

“Director Kappos Pushes “First to File”                                                              5/4/10

“State Intellectual Property Bank”                                                                     4/26/10

“Death of Angel Capital”                                                                                   4/26/10

“Robert’s Rules of Innovation: Book Review”                                                  4/23/10

“Gene Patent Case: a Case Study in Judicial Activism”                                      4/16/10

“Blaming Greenspan and the Free Market”                                                         4/13/10

“First-to-File vs First-to-Invent”                                                                          4/10/10

“Is America a 3^rd World country?”                                                                       4/6/10

“Aligning Unions with the Knowledge Economy”                                               4/1/10

“Does Health Care Bill Signal End of American Empire”                                    3/29/10

“Pat Choate: Technology Theft as a Business Strategy”                                      3/29/10

“Health Care: the End of Freedom”                                                                      3/23/10

“White House Proposes Innovation Prizes”                                                          3/20/10

“The Ballad of the Patent Troll”                                                                            3/15/10

“Accounting Inhibits R&D”                                                                                   3/14/10

“Study Shows Strong IP Key to VC Backed Company Success”                          3/10/10

“Worldwide Patent Backlog”                                                                                  3/9/10

“Hot Property”                                                                                                        3/10/10

“Mr. Watson, Come Here, I Need You”                                                                 3/7/10

“Another Confused Libertarian on Intellectual Property”                                      3/1/10

“Ayn Rand on Intellectual Property”                                                                      2/29/10

“Patent Reform and Independent Inventors”                                                          2/20/10

“Patents and Innovation”                                                                                         2/24/10

“the Next Big Thing”                                                                                               2/19/10

“President’s Day and Patents”                                                                             2/15/10

“National Inventor’s Day”                                                                                   2/11/10

“Public vs Private action: Jobs Bill”                                                                    2/10/10

“International Patent Filings Drop”                                                                      2/8/10

“Patent and Antitrust Law”                                                                                   2/3/10

“Keynesian Economics”                                                                                       2/2/10

“Is It Time to Start Celebrating?”                                                                         1/29/11

“London Bankers Want to Thank Us For SOX”                                                   1/28/10

“Why Investors Need to Pay Attention to Bilski Decision”                                  1/26/10

“Grant Thorton on the IPO Crisis”                                                                        1/23/10

“US Falls to 8^th in Economic Freedom”                                                                 1/20/10

“KSR: Supreme Ignorance by Supreme Court”                                                     1/19/10

“Sarbanes Oxley Update”                                                                                       1/18/10

“Book Review by Pat Choate: Understanding How to Get

The US Economy Moving Again”                                                                      1/17/10

“Colorado Innovation: Terratec”                                                                             1/15/10

Patents and Patent Publications

Dale B. Halling

Patent Expert Witness