Admitted
1973, Maryland; 1974, District of Columbia; 1975-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
George Washington University, J.D., with honors, 1973
Law School Graduation Year
1973
College
George Washington University, B.S.E.E., 1967; University of Pennsylvania, M.S.E., 1968
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Committee on Industrial Designs, 1987—); American Intellectual Property Law Association (Chairman, Industrial Design Committee, 1988-1990; Member, Industrial Design Committee, 1990—); Industrial Designers Society of America (Co-Chair, Design Protection Committee, 1999—).
Biographical
Tau Beta Pi; Ford Foundation Fellowship. Author: Avia Wins Major Design Patent Infringement Suit, IDSA Design Perspectives, February 1989; Sneakers, Design Patents and Summary Judgments: Opening A New Era in the Protection of Consumer Product Designs, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (JPTOS), Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 524-545, 1989; Design Patent Suits Can Be Won, Furniture Design & Manufacturing, p. 114, July 1989; The Glass Slipper Approach to Protecting Industrial Designs or When the Shoe Fits, Wear It, 19 U. Balt. L. Rev. 167 Fall 1989-Winter 1990; The Doctrine of Functionality in Design Patent Cases, 19 U. Balt. L. Rev. 352 Fall 1989-Winter 1990; The Ten Commandments of Design Patent Protection, innovation (Industrial Designers Society of American quarterly journal) Fall 1990, p. 21; How Design Patents Defeat Product Piracy, Seminar Papers on Design Management, Industrial Design Department, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., March 1990; Who Owns What?/Design Protection Tools, innovation , p. 21, Winter 1992; Design Patents - the Whipping Boy Bites Back, 73 JPTOS 859, November 1991; How to Protect Product Design, Design Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 32, Fall 1991; The Basic Tools of Design Protection, Saidman Design Law Group, (pamphlet), Fall 1991; Trade Dress: The Emperor Gets Some Real Clothes, innovation, Spring/Summer, 1995, p. 65; The Valuable Yet Elusive Trademark: All Dressed Up, innovation, Summer/Fall, 1995, p. 51; Design Patentees: Don't Get Unglued by Elmer or The Single Most Important Thing To Know About The Preparation of Design Patent Applications, 78 JPTOS 311, May 1996; Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Knock-Offs: Wal-Mart Case Makes Trade Dress Protection for Product Design More Difficult , Innovation, Summer, 2000; Kan Traffix Kops Katch the Karavan Kopy Kats? -or- Beyond Functionality: Design Patents are the Key to Unlocking the Trade Dress/Patent Conundrum, 82 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (JPTOS) 839, D