Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Intellectual Property

Prominent Assignments

• Manage the Dickinson Wright Intellectual Property Academy to produce high quality patent applications by blending experience and training tools with the enthusiasm of law students and recent law graduates who are also degreed engineers or scientists
• Served as lead trial counsel in successfully litigating various patented technologies, assisting new enterprises in protecting their technology to entice investment or the sale of the enterprise, and overseeing the creation of patent, trade secret and trademark portfolios during periods of significant growth for several large corporations
• Engaged in all phases of patent, trademark and copyright practice, including prosecution of patent applications and licensing
• Former examiner in the U.S. Patent Office and a Patent Advisor in the Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy
• Editor of the Patent, Trademarks and Copyright sections of the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education Business Forms Book
• Mentored over one hundred new attorneys into the practice of patent law through his IP internship program during the last thirty years
• Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University College of Law

Education

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1964
  - Member, Georgetown University Law Journal, 1963-64
• B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 1957

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1964
• Virginia, 1964
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1964

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, State Bar of Michigan
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Examining Corps, U.S. Patent Office, 1961-62

Publications and Presentations

• "Improvements" in Patent Licenses: Presumptions and Clauses Derived from Case Law, 34 AIPLA Q. J. 333 (2006)
• CIP Practice Under and Beyond the Proposed Rule Changes for Continuations, 88 JPTOS 801 (2006)
• A Lesson Worth Telling, Intellectual Property Today, July 2006 at p 16.
• The KSR Standard of Patentability, 89 JPTOS 616 (2007)
• Patent Preparation Mandated by the Law, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, October 2007, Vol. 89, No. 10, at p 809.