Admitted
1975, Virginia; 1976, District of Columbia; 1976-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Law School
Georgetown University, J.D., 1975
Law School Graduation Year
1975
College
Rochester Institute of Technology, B.S.E.E., cum laude, 1970
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; Virginia and American (Secretary; Chair, Division VI; Member and Chair of Federal Practice and Procedure Committee Sections of Intellectual Property Law; Antitrust Law; Litigation; Chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee of Young Lawyers Division, 1977—; Liaison, ABA Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee and Young Lawyers Division, 1978—; Member, House of Delegates, 1983—; Chair, Science and Technology Section; Technology Committee Section Officers Conference; Chair, ABA, Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight, 1996—) Bar Associations; National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Chair, Patent Trial Institute, 1995—); American Intellectual Property Law Association; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Patent Lawyers Club of Washington (President, 1988-1989)
Biographical
Tau Beta Pi. Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Phillips, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1975-1976. Contributing Author: “Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook,” BNA 2000. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1985—. Member: President and Master, Giles S. Rich, American Inns of Court, 1991—; Executive Board, Foundation for a Creative America. Member, The Brookings Institute (Member, Committee on Understanding Intangible Sources of Value). Fellow, American Bar Foundation.