Admitted
1975, Virginia; 1983, District of Columbia; 1999, Wisconsin; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
American University, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
University of Virginia, B.S., 1970
Memberships
American Bar Association (Member, Council, Intellectual Property Law Section, 1993-1999, Division Chair, 2000-2001).
Biographical
Author: Preparing for and Taking Depositions: The Right and the Wrong Way; The Ethical and the Unethical Way, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1994; Intellectual Property Issues For In-House Counsel, The District of Columbia Bar, June, 1995; Successful Patent Litigation, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, October, 1995; Deposition Strategy, ABA Seminar on Advanced Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy, December 1995; The Dilemma of Defending Against Willful Patent Infringement, Judicial Conference of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, June, 1996; The On Sale Bar to Patent Application Filing: Recent Trends in the Federal Circuit, Milwaukee Bar Association, January, 1998; Business Method Patents, ABA Annual Meeting, 2000; IP Issues in E-Commerce, Wisconsin State Bar Annual Meeting, 2000. Co-Editor-in-Chief, Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook, BNA/ABA, 2000. Instructor, International Protection of Intellectual Property, George Mason University Law School, 1996-1997. Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1970-1974. Legislative and International Specialist, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1974-1979. Exchange Executive, President's Executive Exchange Program, 1979-1980. Executive Assistant to the Commissioner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1980-1981. President, Giles S. Rich Inn, American Inns of Court, 1996-1997.