CURRICULUM VITAE

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OBJECTIVE: Patent Investigator/Patent Agent  
PROFILE: Motivated, goal oriented, accustomed to working under pressure without supervision, dedicated to excellence.  
 
  • 5 years of experience in chemical research
  • 20 years of experience in patent operations including experience in:
    • management of patent liaison office in Crystal City, VA(18 years)
    • patent investigative practice
    • patent prosecution pratice
 
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Registered Patent Agent (Specializing in Chemical Technology)  
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Self-Employed as a Patent Agent / Patent Investigator

W.R. GRACE & Co.-Conn.,Columbia, MD
Patent Agent (1991 - 1994)
1994 - Present

1969 - 1994
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Prepared Information Disclosure Statements
  • Prepared patent applications
  • Prepared Responses to Office Actions
 
  Contracts Adminstrator (1991 - 1994)  
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Analyzed over 800 contracts
  • Developed Contract Data Base
  • Maintained Contract Register
 
Patent Investigator (1974 - 1994)
Selected Accomplishments:
  • Patentability searches/Novelty searches
  • State-of-the-Art searches
  • Validity searches
  • Infringement searches
  • Acquisition related searches
  • Assignee/Assignor/Inventor index searches
  • Trademark searches
  • Patent application preparation
  • Amendment preparation
 
  Office Manager (1975 - 1991)  
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Inspected an reported on patent prosecution histories
  • Liaison with Patent and Trademark officials for 22 patent attorneys and agents
  • Supervised Secretary/Trademark Searcher
  • Translated scientific articles
 
  Research Chemist (1969 - 1974)  
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Polymer chemistry research including theoretical
    conceptualization, synthesis and analysis
  • Translation of scientific articles
 
EARLY HISTORY: WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, Washington, D.C. 1963 - 1964
  Biochemistry Lab-Assistant  
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Body fluid analysis using ultra-centrifugation, electrophoresis and gas and thin layer chromatographic techniques
  • Translation of scientific articles
 
  FOUNDRY RUBBER COMPANY (DIVISION OF PARA PRODUCTS), Washington, D.C. 1966 - 1969.
  Technical Assistant  
  Selected Accomplishments:
  • Lab and plant scale research and production of foundry industry chemicals
  • Quality control
  • Product promotion and marketing (including product demonstration at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia)
 
PATENTS: I. Inventions Patented (as a Research Chemist)
  • 4,169,175 - Removal of Unreacted Tolylene Diisocyanate from Urethane Prepolymers
  • 4,061,662 - Removal of Unreacted Tolylene Diisocyanate from Urethane Prepolymers
  • 4,045,396 - Flame Retardant Permanent Press Composition
  • 3,929,927 - Radiation Polymerizable Epoxy Composition
  • 3,926,755 - Radiation Polymerizable Polyester Composition
  • 3,912,608 - Process for Curing a Radiation Sensitive Composition Comprising an Epoxy Compound and an Amino Acrylate.
II. Example of Patents which Matured from Applications Prepared and Prosecuted(as a Patent Agent)
  • 5,391,686 - Polyurethane Compositions Having Enhanced Corrosion Inhibing Properties
EDUCATION: B.S., Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1972, Awarded academic scholarship
CONTINUING
EDUCATION
Patent Bar Review Courses
Patent Resources Group (PRG) - Washington, D.C., - 1988
Practicing Law Institute (PLI) - New York, NY - 1989

Automated Patent System (APS) Certification Course - 1990 (For on-line searching of patents at the PTO)

ORBIT Trademark Retrieval System Certification Course - 1991 (For on-line searching of trademarks at the PTO)

Montgomery College
Takoma Park, MD
Courses in Computer Science - 1973 and 1974 (COBOL and FORTRAN Programming)
AFFILIATIONS: Maryland Patent Law Association (MPLA)
LANGUAGES: (Fluent)
German
Spanish
Portuguese
MILITARY: Air Force Reserve Office Training Corps (AFROTC)
(While attending University of Maryland).
HONORS/
AWARDS:
Awarded National Science Foundation Grant (One of 100 given annually for Scientific Research Assistantships) 1963 and 1964