Joseph E. Walsh, Jr. ( Joe )

Principal / St. Louis Metro Office

Joe began his legal career as in-house counsel to a leading petrochemical company. Since then, he has had the great privilege of serving as a trusted advisor to a variety of multinational clients — frequently setting up office within his client’s facilities and working side-by-side with in-house counsel. Joe strives to see matters and legal issues through the eyes of his clients, specifically taking into account their objectives and resources. Joe is committed to delivering high-quality legal advice that makes good business sense at a cost that doesn’t surprise.

Joe develops and executes large and small-scale IP strategies alike in virtually every part of the industrialized world. He facilitates these projects utilizing carefully selected, high-caliber and reliable foreign counsel — all of whom he has worked with personally. Joe negotiates and drafts a full array of IP agreements, including sophisticated research, joint-development, technology-transfer and licensing agreements. He delivers legal and business solutions to even the most complicated patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and related litigation and licensing matters. Joe has particular experience in merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, and he has a reputation for conducting IP due diligence investigations on-time and in-budget.

Practice Areas

Industries

Resolving IP disputes effectively and in alignment with his client’s commercial objectives is another skill Joe possesses. Frequently, Joe succeeds in resolving even the most complex controversies short of litigation, thus saving his clients both time and money.

Awards & Distinctions

Best Lawyers, “Trademark Lawyer of the Year” in St. Louis, 2015
Best Lawyers, Trademark Law, 2013-2024
Best Lawyers, Patent Law, 2018-2024
Best Lawyers, Copyright Law, 2019-2024
Best Lawyers, Litigation – Intellectual Property, 2024
Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), “Patent 1000,” 2021-2023
Martindale Hubbell Peer Review, AV Rated®
Missouri Super Lawyers, 2021, 2022
Irish Legal 100, 2019
St. Louis Business Journal’s “Go-To Lawyer,” Technology
St. Louis Small Business Monthly, “Top Business Attorneys,” 2021
St. Louis Small Business Monthly, “Best Attorney in St. Louis,” 2019, 2020
Titan 100, 2022
World Trademark Review, “WTR 1000,” 2022

Memberships

American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis: Past Chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section; Past Governing Member
International Trademark Law Association
Washington University School of Law, Intellectual Property Curriculum Advisory Board
Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School, Former Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees