Opinion
No. 1231 Disciplinary Docket No. 3.
October 11, 2007.
Board File No. C3-07-25, Mandate of United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 06-1038, and Notice of Suspension of United States Patent and Trademark Office, Attorney Registration No. 53803.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 11th day of October, 2007, John P. Halvonik having been suspended from the practice of law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued November 3, 2006, and Notice of Suspension of the United States Patent and Trademark Office dated November 27, 2006; the said John P. Halvonik having been directed on April 30, 2007, to inform this Court of any claim he has that the imposition of the identical or comparable discipline in this Commonwealth would be unwarranted and the reasons therefor; and upon consideration of the responses filed, it is
ORDERED that John P. Halvonik is suspended from the practice of law in this Commonwealth consistent with the Mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued November 3, 2006, and Notice of Suspension of the United States Patent and Trademark Office dated November 27, 2006, and he shall comply with all the provisions of Rule 217, Pa.R.D.E.