Admitted
1960, Virginia; 1961, District of Columbia; 1979, Pennsylvania; 1990, California; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
George Washington University, J.D., 1960
Law School Graduation Year
1960
College
Colorado School of Mines, Met.E., 1956
Memberships
State Bar of California; Federal, Federal Circuit and American (Plant Variety Protection Subcommittee) Bar Associations; American Intellectual Property Law Association (Plant Variety Protection Subcommittee); Association of Corporate Patent Counsel; Licensing Executive Society.
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Author: Managing Trademarks and Plant Variety Protection of Ornamentals for Profil, EUCARPIA International Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, July 2000; Using and Registering Trade Designations as Trademarks, AABGA Symposium, 1998; Our U.S. Plant Patent - It Took Awhile, American Nurseryman Magazine, November 1998; Trademark Rights Help in Domain Name Disputes, www.plantpatent.com, March 2000; Plant Variety Protection in the U.S., I.P.P.S. Bulletin, 1991; Licensing Plant Variety Protection Under UPOV and Under U.S. Law, C.I.O.P.O.R.A. Symposium, 1993; Revised Rose Name Registration System, Acta Horticultural, 1983; Plant Variety Protection, New Matter, Fall 1990; Protection Through Patents, American Nurseryman, October 1, 1996; Making Your Mark, American Nurseryman, October 1, 1996; Plant Patent - R.I.P., Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, July 1997. Patent Counsel: Reactive Metals, Inc., 1965-1968; Allegheny Ludlum Industries, 1968-1979. Secretary and General Counsel, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., 1980-1985. President, World Federation of Rose Societies, 1985-1988. President, American Rose Society, 1982-1985. Chairman, 1982-1985 and Trustee, 1979-1988, American Rose Foundation. Member, C.I.O.P.O.R.A., an International Association of Plant Breeders. Member, International Association of Plant Propagators. (Resident, Newport Beach Office)