List of patent attorneys and agents
This is a list of notable patent attorneys and agents, including, in the section below, fictional patent attorneys.
A
- Charles Denton Abel (1831–1906), first vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
B
- Marcellus Bailey (1840–1921), 1870s US law partner of Anthony Pollok who prepared telephone patents for Alexander Graham Bell
- Alfred Ely Beach (1826–1896), inventor of the New York City Subway
- Sharon Bowles (born 1953), British MEP
C
- Chester Carlson (1906–1968)
- Yardley Chittick (born 1900)
- Dennis Crouch (born 1975), professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and author of the widely read patent law blog Patently-O
- George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894)
D
- George Alfred DePenning, inventor to whom the first Indian patent was granted in 1856, and who later became the first patent agent in India[1][2]
- Peter Detkin
F
- Richard Frenkel, once anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog
G
- Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of the Wizardry computer game
H
- G. Donald Harrison (1889–1956), builder of music organs
- Paul Haughey (born 1954)
- Ralph Horween (1896–1997), Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
- Gerald D. Hosier, patent litigator, named highest-paid attorney by Forbes magazine in 2000
I
- John Imray (1820–1902), second president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
J
- John Henry Johnson (1828–1900), first president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
K
- Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan (since 8 June 2010)
- Irving Kayton, former law professor, author of Kayton on Patents
- Keefauver, William ("Bill"), formerly chief patent lawyer for Bell Labs; responsible for Gottschalk v. Benson, test case in which Bell Labs attempted (unsuccessfully) to get patent on algorithm; later Vice President and General Counsel of AT&T Bell Laboratories and Corporate Vice President – Law of AT&T with responsibility for intellectual property law matters
- Florence King (1870-1924), the first female patent attorney in America
- Stephan Kinsella (born 1965), Libertarian legal theorist
L
M
- Alan MacPherson (1934–2008), the "dean of patent law" in Silicon Valley
- Howard T. Markey (1921–2006), Chief Judge Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Chicago patent lawyer, major general Air Force Reserve test pilot in World War II
N
- William Newton (1786–1861), one of the earliest recorded patent agents practising in London[3]
P
- Anthony Pollok (1829–1898), 1870s US law partner of Marcellus Bailey who prepared telephone patents for Alexander Graham Bell
R
- Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to the Free Software Foundation
- Greg "Fossilman" Raymer (born in 1964), winner of the main event at the 2004 World Series of Poker
- Giles Sutherland Rich (1904–1999)
- Malcolm Royal (1941–2006), Australian patent attorney and educator
S
- Richard H. Stern (born in 1931), Chief of US Justice Dept. Patent Sec. (1970-79), of counsel to government in Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co., Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, Gottschalk v. Benson, United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd., Dann v. Johnston, Parker v. Flook. Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington Univ. Law School (since 1990).
T
- Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1858–1942)
W
- Günter Wächtershäuser, origin of life theorist
- Thomas Blanco White, British patent lawyer; inductee to the IP (Intellectual property) Hall of Fame in 2010.
- John G. Wilson, founder of Wilson Gunn Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys[4]
Fictional characters who are patent attorneys
- Jim Eisenberg, played by Adam Arkin in the TV miniseries A Year in the Life
- Oliver Farnsworth, from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth; played by Buck Henry in its film adaptation, of the same name
- Harriet Korn, played by Kathy Bates, of Harry's Law, a recently fired patent lawyer
- Wally Mason, in the book Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories by Brian C. Coad
- Eustis Miller, in the TV series King of the Hill; father of Bobby's classmate Randy
- Joe Nile, patent attorney protagonist in the novel Undue Diligence by Paul Haughey
- George Stobbart, from the Broken Sword adventure games
- Harry Wykoff, in the six-hour mini-series Wild Palms
- In one of the episodes of the TV series Ally McBeal, she considers dating a patent attorney who is regarded as "harmless"
- Calvin's father, in comic strip Calvin and Hobbes; the father of Bill Watterson, the creator of this cartoon series, is a patent attorney
See also
References
- ↑ DePenning & DePenning, History of DePenning & DePenning. Consulted on 4 April 2008.
- ↑ T.V. Malavika, Intellectual property? Right!, The Hindu online, 9 April 2006. Consulted on 4 April 2008.
- ↑ Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, 1989 V 20 pp 3–6
- ↑ wilsongunn.com
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