Focus Areas
- “Supreme Court Allows Inventors to Challenge Their Own Patents,” Thompson Hine Intellectual Property Update, July 2021
- “Inventors Beware: Even Secret Activity Can Sink Your Patent,” Thompson Hine Intellectual Property Update, January 2019
- “PTAB Challenges Can Reduce Royalty Obligations, Open New Markets,” Thompson Hine Intellectual Property Update, March 2016
- “USPTO Pilot Program Permits Modernizing Trademark Registration Coverage,” Thompson Hine Intellectual Property Update, September 2015
- “Patentee’s Threat to Discontinue Purchases Constitutes Unlawful Attempt to Monopolize,” Patent Law Review, 1975
- Contributor, “Doing Business in and With the United States,” 1999
- Contributor, Couse’s Ohio Form Book, Vol. 1 (6th Ed.)
- Executive editor, INTA Bulletin, International Trademark Association, 2002 to 2003
- “Intellectual Property for the General Practitioner,” Dayton Bar Association
- “Survey of International Software Protection,” Cincinnati Bar Association
- “Protecting Intellectual Property Internationally,” Cincinnati Bar Association
- “Best Practices in Patent Prosecution for 2005,” Thompson Hine LLP
- “Creative Strategies for Building, Maintaining and Protecting Your Trademark Assets,” Thompson Hine LLP
- “How to Avoid Unwittingly Becoming One’s Own Lexicographer – Phillips and Its Progeny,” Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association
- Recognized by Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars, 2020 to 2021 (Patent Star)
- AV® Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2006 to 2022 for Patent Law and Trademark Law; named the Best Lawyers® 2022 Patent Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Dayton
- Recognized in Euromoney’s Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars Handbook, 2013 to 2015
- Who’s Who Legal USA, Trademarks, 2008
- Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers list, 2008
Professional Associations
- International Trademark Association, Internet Committee, ICANN Engagement Subcommittee
- Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association
- Dayton Bar Association, chairman of the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, 1993 to 1994
Community Activities
- South Metro Regional Chamber of Commerce, past chairman
- Greater Dayton Area Diversity & Inclusion Legal Roundtable, mentor
Education
1976, Law Review, Editorial Board
- University of Michigan,
1973, cum laude, mechanical engineering, with emphasis on mechanical design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, hydraulics and automatic control systems
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Eleven Thompson Hine Lawyers Named Best Lawyers 2022 Lawyers of the Year,
Thompson Hine LLP
, August 19, 2021 - Thompson Hine’s Intellectual Property Practice and Four Partners Recognized by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine,
Thompson Hine LLP
, July 21, 2021 - Supreme Court Allows Inventors to Challenge Their Own Patents,
Intellectual Property Update
, July 1, 2021 - Four Thompson Hine Partners Named “IP Stars” by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine,
Thompson Hine LLP
, August 11, 2020 - Inventors Beware: Even Secret Activity Can Sink Your Patent,
Intellectual Property Update
, January 31, 2019