Admitted
1976, Illinois; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S., 1972
Memberships
Chicago, American and International Bar Associations; Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Circuit Bar Association; Intellectual Property Owners; International Trademark Association; International Patent and Trademark Association (AIPPI); Licensing Executives Society.
Biographical
Tau Beta Pi. Executive Editor, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1975-1976. Member, Editorial Board of the Trademark Reporter, 1981-1984; 1987-1989; 1991-1992. Editor: Butterworths Patent Litigation: Enforcing a Global Patent Portfolio, (December 1994). Author: Civil Law, Uncivil Lawyers, An International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers 7 (1998); Important Decisions, Trends, and Events in United States Patent Trademark Law: 1993 and 1994, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Patenanwaelte (October 1995); Damages in U.S. Patent Litigation, 21 International Business Lawyer 467 (November 1993); Claim Interpretation and Patent Infringement Under United States Patent Law, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Patentanwaelte (February 1993); The Stars' Wars: Names, Pictures and Lookalikes, Schweizerische Mitteilungen Uber Immaterialgueterrecht (August 1990); Damages in USA Intellectual Property Litigation, 72 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 181, March 1990; The Stars' Wars: Names, Pictures and Lookalikes, 17 A.I.P.L.A. Quarterly Journal 81 (1989); The Right of Publicity and the Celebrity Look-Alike: Now Section 43(a) Proscribes Faces That Deceive, 77 Trademark Reporter 31, January-February, 1987; A Primer on Intellectual Property Rights, 50 Albany Law Review 405, Spring 1986; A ‘Non-Obvious' Framework for Analyzing Proof of Secondary Meaning, 11 A.P.L.A. Journal 211 (1983); Further Comments on the Development of the Right of Publicity —A Matter of Life, Death, and Sometimes the First Amendment, 73 Trademark Reporter 278, May-June 1983; The Right of Publicity—The Trend Towards Protecting a Celebrity's Celebrity, 72 Trademark Reporter 251, May-June 1982; The Federal Trademark Jury Trial—Awakening of a Dormant Constitutional Right, 70 Trademark Reporter 177, May-June 1980; Constitutional and Procedural Aspects of the Use of Juries in Patent Litigation, 58 Journal of the Patent Office Society 609, 673, October, November 1976. Adjunct Professor, Patent and Copyright Law, Northwestern Universit