AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

• Counseling
• Licensing & Transactions
• Litigation
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Appellate
  • Federal District Court
  • Hatch-Waxman
  • International Trade Commission
  • Patent Interferences
• Patent Prosecution
  • Biomedical
  • Biology and Biotechnology
  • Chemical
  • Pharmaceutical
• Unfair Competition

EDUCATION

• The George Washington University Law School, Juris Doctor, 1976
• Indiana University, Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, 1972

ADMISSIONS, COURTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• District of Columbia
• Commonwealth of Virginia
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• American Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, President, 2006- present; Vice-President, 2003-2006; Biotechnology Committee, 1988-present

PUBLICATIONS

• “Arrested Development: A Round-Up of the Developments in the Recognition and Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources,” World Intellectual Property Review (March 2006)
• Set Patent Rules by Industry?,” Legal Times: IP Supplemental (March 15, 2003)
• Co-author, “Database Protection in the U.K. and the USA : What, if Any, Protection Might Those Who Work So Hard Receive?,” Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, Vol. 9, No. 3 (March 2003)
• Co-author, “Transannular Alkylations of Cyclooctanones,” Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 37

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Named in The International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers 2010
• Leading lawyer in biotechnology law and intellectual property law, The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2009)
• Named in The Washington Post Magazine’s Best Lawyers List (2008)
• America ’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA (2006-2009)
• Named to the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM 250) - The World’s Leading IP Strategists

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Federal Rules and E-Discovery Overview in the U.S., FICPI Open Forum, Seville, Spain (November 2007)
• U.S. Model: Effect of Amendments; Estoppel; Scope of Protection; Equivalents; and Means-Plus-Function Claims, FICPI China Symposium, Beijing, China (September 2007)
• Business Method Patents and the Financial Services Industry, SIFMA, New York, NY (February 2007)
• Section 135(b) Anxiety – Is Copying Claims Enough to Keep You Out of 135(b) Trouble?, Boston Patent Law Association (December 2006)
• Partnership Structures and Management, Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI) 9^th Open Forum, Lisbon, Portugal(2005)
• Patent Claim Drafting, Twelfth Work Sessions and Administrative Council meeting of the Asociacion Interamericana de la Propiedad (ASIPI), Punta del Este, Uruguay (2005)
• The Importance of IP Valuation in Intellectual Property Asset Management: A U.S. Viewpoint, Intellectual Property Valuation seminar sponsored by FICPI and LES-AC, Dubai, UAE (2005)