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Attorney By Attorney
Career Profiles of the Profession
Who?
What?
Primary Practice Area:
Intellectual Property Law (Trial & Appellate Practice)
When?
Years in Practice Area:
Since 1959
Years in the Legal Profession:
Since 1959
Where?
Employer:
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
http://www.finnegan.com
Size/Sector:
250+ lawyers
City/State:
Washington, DC
Law School:
Georgetown University Law School
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Other post-graduate education:
Graduate courses within selected patent/antitrust law subjects.
Undergraduate School/Degree:
Purdue University, B.S. Ch.E.
Career Path to Current Position:
Patent office examiner; law clerk to appellate judge; private practice; various teaching appointments as Adjunct Professor.
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Why?
Pluses/Challenges of Practice Area:
I.P. law provides a wide variety of career opportunities from patent, trademark, copyright procurement, to licensing to counseling, to litigation.
Core Skills/Key Knowledge Needed in Practice Area:
Technical background, knowledge of general and patent law and practice.
Suggested Reading About Your Practice Area:
Chisum on Patents
Job Search Techniques Used in Finding Your Position(s):
Initially: correspondence and interviews with key members of selected firms; thereafter, contacts in field.
Advice to Lawyers and Law Students Interested in Your Practice Area:
Patent and Trademark Office and Judicial Clerkship (preferably both at district and appellate levels) experience is most helpful.
Bar Affiliations and Activities:
AIPLA (President 1979-80); ABA IPL Section (Chair 1995-6); Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
Recent Professional Publications:
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Practice and Procedure; CARE chapter in Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook; Co-author of Patent Law Perspectives (1970-1988).
Recent Professional Presentations:
New Jersey IPLA Speech on the Federal Circuit; Houston IPLA speech on business method patents, ABA IPL Moderation of Panel in Recent Patent Law Developments.
Intriguing Interests:
Skiing, boating, gardening.
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