Admitted
1973, California, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1977, Massachusetts, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Supreme Court; 1978, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fi
Law School
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1973
Law School Graduation Year
1973
College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1965; Indiana University, M.A., 1969
Memberships
American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Intellectual Property Law); Boston Patent Law Association; Licensing Executives Society; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Associate Member, Author's Guild).
Biographical
Author: Drafting Patent Applications After Festo and Johnson & Johnston, MCLE Fifth Annual New England Intellectual Property Conference, June 14, 2002 [article and presentation]; Patent Portfolio Management and Technical Standard Setting: How To Avoid Loss of Patent Rights, AIPLA, June 8, 2002 [article and presentation]; When is it Safe to Tout Technology? Avoiding Unintended Patent Consequences Resulting from Premature Announcements, The Journal of Biolaw & Business, 2002, Vol. 3, No. 4. Pp. 47-50; Global Trademark Protection for Biotech and Life Science Companies: What It Takes to Get Through the Trademark Thicket, The Journal of Biolaw & Business, 2001, Vol. 4, No. 4; Recent Federal Case Undermines Multi-Filing Patent Strategies: A Routine Foreign Filing Trips Up a Patent Holder, The Journal of Biolaw & Business, 2000, No. 1.; Inventorship Disputes Vex Biotechnology Industry, The Journal of Biolaw & Business, 1998, No. 4. Panelist and Contributor: Intellectual Property Practice Basics, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1995-2000 (Chairman, Editor and Contributor); Intellectual Property Conference '98: Patent Litigation and Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1998; Protecting Intellectual Property Assets, MCLE, 1995, 1997; Database Protection: When Is It Merely 'Sweat of the Brow' and When Is Protection Available?, Computer and Telecommunications Law Institute, Boston Bar Association, 1995, 1996; Corporate Operations, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1996; Patenting Computer Software, Licensing Executives Society, 1994; Enforcing and Defending Intellectual Property Rights, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1994; Basic Issues in Patent Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1994.