Admitted
1971, Virginia; 1972, District of Columbia; 1974-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Tradema
Law School
George Washington University, J.D., with honors, 1971
Law School Graduation Year
1971
College
University of Pennsylvania, B.S.E.E., 1967
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; Virginia State Bar (Member, Board of Governors, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, 1981-1983; Secretary, 1983-1984; Vice-Chairman, 1984-1985; Chairman, 1985-1986); Virginia (Chairman, Intellectual Property Committee, 1987-1988) and American Bar Associations (Committee on Managing Intellectual Property Assets, 2000-2002; Chairman, Committee on Attorney's Opinions for Intellectual Property Section, 1994-1996); American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member: Patent Law Committee, 1973-1978; Publications Committee, 1977-1979; Member, 1979— and Subcommittee Chairman, 1982-1988, Federal Practice and Procedure Committee; Member and Subcommittee Chairman, 1980-1981, Young Lawyers' Committee; Chairman, Federal Litigation Committee, 1989-1991; Chairman, Litigation Advocacy Committee, 1987-1989; Co-Chairman of the 2002 Mid-Winter Institute on Business Aspects of Intellectual Property, the 1999 Mid-Winter Institute on Cyberspace Law and the 1989 and 1995 Mid-Winter Institutes on the Art of Litigation Advocacy).
Biographical
Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1967-1972. Law Clerk to Fred Strader, Board of Appeals of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1971-1972. Co-Chairman, Seminar on Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, 1985. Member, Board of Correspondents of European Intellectual Property Review, 1987—. Member, Board of Advisors, The Computer Lawyer, 1988—. Project Director for the Annenberg Washington Program's Project on Curbing International Piracy of Intellectual Property, 1988-1989 and Forum on Computer Software Protection, 1991.