Heimbach, Candy Barr

Marshall Schmitt is a partner in the Chicago office and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Schmitt's practice focuses on resolving disputes regarding scientific issues and counseling clients in chemical and biotechnology matters. His practice includes helping clients develop strategies for obtaining and effectively enforcing intellectual property rights. He has significant experience in disputes involving diverse subject matters including: patent; trade secrets; trademark; unfair competition; copyright; antitrust; False Claims Act; government contracts (including terminations for default); cable television franchising; insurance coverage; dissolution of partnerships and professional corporations; and internal investigations.

Mr. Schmitt also has extensive experience in criminal matters, having represented indigent clients pro bono, including several death penalty cases.

Mr. Schmitt's trial experience spans a wide range of civil and criminal matters. He has participated in major trials in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Missouri; and the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. He also has litigated cases in several other United States District Courts, including the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the Northern District of California, and in the California Superior Courts (Los Angeles and San Diego). He has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the California Court of Appeals, and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and participated in other appeals before the Illinois Appellate Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.