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Visibility Rankings  | | #56 out of 3,377 lawyers in Detroit, Michigan | | #18,811 out of 888,801 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Intellectual Property; International Trade | | | Education | St. Louis University, J.D., 1983, University of Michigan (B.A., English Literature/Political Science, 1978; M.A., English Literature, 1980); Madonna University, B.S., Biochemistry, cum laude, 1994 | | | Admitted | 1985, Illinois and Iowa; 1988, Michigan; 1990, District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | |
| Memberships | American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association (Chair, International Education Committee); American Chemical Society. | | | Born | Detroit, Michigan, 1957 | | | Biography | Fulbright Scholar, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China, 1997. Recipient, Certificate of Training, World Intellectual Property Organization Workshop for Mediators, New York, 1999. Honoree, 1996 Crain's Detroit Business "Top 40 Under 40," Delegate, WIPO Consultation Meeting on Enforcement (Geneva, 2001 & 2002). Author: "Patent Practice & Policy in the Pacific Rim," Oceana Publications, Inc. (treatise); "China Changes Patent Law to Comply with TRIPS," National Law Journal, July 23, 2001; "China's TRIPS Agreement Compliance After One Year," China Business Review, Nov-Dec 2002; "Patent Practice in the United States," Tianjin (China) Technical News, 1990; "Japanese Patent Practice & American Business," Collected Speeches Before The Policy Study Group, Tokyo, Japan, 1993; "Transgenic Animals as Intellectual Property (or the Patented Mouse that Roared)," Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, Volume 76, No. 7, 1994. Foreign Instructor, Xiamen University School of Law, Xiamen, China, 1990. Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, 2001-2003, and Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University, 1996-1999. Resident Foreign Expert, Saint Island Patent and Trademark Law Office, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983-1984. Honorary Member, Advisory Committee, Journal of International Law and Practice, Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University, 1995—. Foreign Advisor, Patent Office of the People's Republic of China, May-June 1997. Proofreader, Commissioner's Report of the Chinese Patent Office, 1998—. Director, Joint U.S.-China Copyright Symposium, Shenyang, China, 1998. Delegation Member, Sino-U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Exchange Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, 2001.(Resident, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Office) | | | ISLN | 902434798 | |
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