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George A. Smith, Jr.

George A. Smith, Jr.

Partner
 
Howson & Howson LLP
501 Office Center Drive, Suite 210
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania  19034
(Montgomery Co.)

Telephone: 215-540-9204
Fax: 215-540-5818
http://www.howsonandhowson.com/GASJR.html



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Practice AreasPatent; Trademark; Copyright; Intellectual Property Law
 
EducationTemple University, J.D., 1970, University of Pennsylvania, B.S.E.E., 1964
 
Admitted1970, Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1972, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Seventh Circuits; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court; 1977, Canadian Patent Office; 1982, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
 
MembershipsPhiladelphia Bar Association; Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association.
 
Born1942
 
BiographyGeorge Anthony ("Tony") Smith, Jr. is a graduate of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the Temple University School of Law. He has been partner at Howson & Howson LLP since 1979, and has prepared and prosecuted more than five hundred U.S. patents in a broad range of technologies including telecommunications systems, transducers, antennas, electronic circuits, chemical processes, and a wide variety of mechanical inventions. He also has extensive experience in handling cases before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony also has long and diverse experience in patent litigation, both on the plaintiff's side and on the defense side, having been counsel in over fifty (50) patent infringement cases, and has prepared numerous legal opinions on patent infringement and related issues. Tony is admitted to practice in the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania, and served as an arbitrator for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for twelve years. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Tenth, and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He is registered to practice not only in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but also in the Canadian Patent Office. He is a life member of the Institute of Electronic Engineers, and a member of the IEEE Communications Society, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association.
 
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