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 Wizardry computer game
H
- G. Donald Harrison, (1889 - 1956), builder of music organs
- Paul Haughey, (born 1954)
- 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
- Irving Kayton, former law professor, author of Kayton on Patents
- Stephan Kinsella, (born 1965), Libertarian legal theorist.
L
- Otto Lee, mayor of Sunnyvale
M
- Alan MacPherson, (1934-2008), the "dean of patent law" in Silicon Valley
- Howard T. Markey, (born 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
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
- Malcolm Royal, (1941 - 2006), Australian patent attorney and educator
- Giles Sutherland Rich (1904 - 1999)
T
W
- Günter Wächtershäuser, origin of life theorist.
Fictional characters who are patent attorneys
- Calvin's father (in comics series Calvin and Hobbes - the father of Bill Watterson, the creator of this cartoon series, is a patent attorney)
- Oliver Farnsworth (from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth; also played by Buck Henry in the film adaptation, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
- Wally Mason (in the book Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories by Brian C. Coad)
- George Stobbart (from the Broken Sword adventure games)
- Harry Wykoff (in the television event series Wild Palms)
- Joe Nile, the patent attorney protagonist in the novel "Undue Diligence" by Paul Haughey.
- Eustis Miller is patent attorney in the TV series King of the Hill and father of Bobby's classmate Randy.
- The character, Jim Eisenberg, played by Adam Arkin in the TV miniseries "A Year in the Life"
- In one [which?] of the episodes of the TV series Ally McBeal, she considers dating a patent attorney who is regarded as "harmless".
See also
References
- ^ DePenning & DePenning, History of DePenning & DePenning. Consulted on April 4, 2008.
- ^ T.V. Malavika, Intellectual property? Right!, The Hindu online, April 9, 2006. Consulted on April 4, 2008.
- ^ Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, 1989 V 20 pp 3-6