Admitted
1993, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
George Mason University School of Law, J.D., 1992
Law School Graduation Year
1992
College
University of Hawaii, B.A., Microbiology, 1968; George Mason University, M.S., Molecular Biology, 19
Biographical
Director of Intellectual Property, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-1999. Lecturer: Best Techniques in Technology Transfer, AUTM Annual Meeting (2000); Research Tools in Biotechnology: Should They Be Protected?, National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy Conference on Intellectual Property Rights (2000); Research Tools: Getting Universities and Industry on the Same Track, American Intellectual Property Law Association Midwinter Institute (2000); Claiming and Protecting Early Research, AIPLA Annual Meeting (1999); Challenges in Patenting Inventions Made by University Based Inventors, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Examiner Training Academy (1999). Co-Lecturer, An Overview of the Use of Invention Records in Interference Practice, Japanese Study Committee, AIPLA Mid-Winter Conference (1996). Co-author: Prior User Rights: Wrong for Academic Technology Transfer, in press 1999; Ethical Responsibilities of the Patent Practitioner under Rule 56, Biotechnology Law Report 15:891-908 (1996); Patent Applications on Partial cDNA Sequences, Journal of the National Institute of Health Research 7:58-61 (1995).