LEGAL WORK EXPERIENCE
BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY, PC, October 2017 – December 2019
New York, NY – IP Section, Of Counsel
MARC ADLER, LLC, June 2008 – October 2017
ROHM & HAAS COMPANY, 1982 – June 2008
Philadelphia, PA
Chief Technology and Intellectual Property Counsel,
Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary
Responsible for all intellectual property matters for 8.2 billion (sales) worldwide specialty materials company with approximately $300M annual R&D budget. Managed 25 attorneys in 6 locations in 4 countries: US, UK, Japan and China.
Patent Public Advisory Committee: November 2008: Nominated by Secretary of Commerce and appointed to the USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee for 2009-2012.
EDUCATION
J.D. 1980 St. John’s School of Law, New York
M.E. (Chem. Eng.) 1973 University of Florida
BS (Chem. Eng.) 1972 City College New York
ADMISSIONS
New York State Bar (1980)
USSC, CAFC & various US Federal District Courts
Registered Patent Attorney (1980)
Adjunct Professor – Patent Law (1991-1993) Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
ASSOCIATION ACTIVITITES
Intellectual Property Owners Association:
Board of Directors 1993-2008
President 2006-2007
Executive Committee 2005-2008
Chair Nominating Committee 2008-2009
Organizing Committee International Judges Conferences 2005 and 2009
IPO Education Foundation Board
Association of Corporate Patent Counsel
Executive Committee 2003-2006
Secretary 2004
President 2006
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Board of Directors 2007-2008
Franklin Pierce University Law Center: External IP Advisory Board 2007-2008
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
US Executive Committee 2007-2008
“IP Management: A Day in the Life” ACPC Panel Colorado Springs, Colorado June 2008
“IP Due Diligence: In-house Perspective” ACPC Bonita Springs, Florida January 2007
“IP Strategies” Licensing Executives Society, Osaka, Japan November 2006
IPO Amicus Curiae Briefs: (Of Counsel) Talas v. Dudas, CAFC December 2007; Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., USSC December 2007; In re Seagate, CAFC March 2007; KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. & Holding Co., USSC October 2006; and In re Nuijten, CAFC August 2006
Trilateral Public User’s Conference, November 2007 Wash DC & November 2006 Tokyo, Japan “Quality Patent Examination and Prosecution” Presentation at meeting between IPO/AIPLA/JIPO and Business Europe
Discussion with USPTO/EPO and JPO Commissioners November 2007, Federal Circuit Bar Association Annual Meeting Maryland June 2007
“Cross Border and Other Emerging Issues for the CAFC” panel presentation with CAFC Judge R. Rader “Measuring Patent Quality” presentation at AIPLA/FICPI meeting, Amsterdam March 2007
“Patent Quality” Presentation at AIPLA/FICPI meeting, Amsterdam March 2007
“IP Strategies: An In-house Corporate Perspective” AIPPI and IPO: presentations and meetings with patent associations in Mexico, Chile and Argentina May 2007. IPO fact finding and educational meetings: Asian practice committee
Delegation Leader IPO 4th Annual China Conferences: October 2007 Beijing and Shenzen, PRC, and March 2006 Beijing and Shanghai IPO and GW
Law School Conference: 2006 Mumbai and New Delhi, India, The Conference Board
“IP Protection in China” July 2007 Teleconference Presentation with US IPR representative Mark Cohen. Beijing IPR Enforcement and Trade Secret Protection Measures in China. IPO Organizing Committee for CAFC International Judges Conference 2005: 80 judges from around the world met with CAFC, Washington, DC
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Advanced Licensing Institute, January 2009, “Patent Strategies for Cross Licensing: Patent Strategies for Recessionary Times”
Presentation to the Law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Alexandria, VA. Dec 2008 “Using Today’s Patent Laws to Protect Tomorrow’s Technology”
“New Litigation Strategies” Bureau of National Affairs, Alexandria Virginia November 2008
Patent Strategies Presentation at Edwards Angell Summer Seminar Series. Boston, July 2008