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Patrick J. Birde
Partner | New York
Patrick J. Birde is a partner of the firm in the New York office. He has substantial experience in the procurement and enforcement of U.S. and foreign intellectual property rights for major U.S. and foreign clients. With emphasis in the chemical and medical device arts, his legal practice is focused on patent prosecution and licensing matters. His responsibilities have included the drafting, prosecution and licensing of many commercially significant patents.
Mr. Birde has a wide range of technical experience with products and processes relating to peptide synthesis, catheters for non-invasive surgical techniques such as angioplasty, angiography and tissue ablation, photographic chemicals, battery chemistry, petroleum refinement, soaps and detergents, dental compositions, electrically conductive polymers, cooking oil recovery, plastic packaging, bioabsorbable polymers, fluorocarbon propellants, metal oxide catalysts and food chemistry. He has also worked on projects in the textile, elevator door operator, plastic fastener, electric current interrupter, conductive ink, ceramic and other industries. Before entering law, Mr. Birde worked as a research and development chemist for a photographic chemical company.
Mr. Birde serves on the editorial board of Patent World magazine and has written several articles and monographs on intellectual property topics, including: 35 U.S.C. § 154(d) Grants Patent Applicants Provisional Rights in Their Published Patent Applications, Intellectual Property Strategist, (September 2003), United States Patent Claim Interpretation After Markman, Patent World, Issue 83 (June/July 1996), 1995: Developments in United States Patent Law, Patent World, Issue 79 (February 1996), Some Significant Changes in US Patent Office Practice October 1992-November 1993, Patent World, Issue 60 (March 1994), Stronger US Patents: Complying with Revised Information Disclosure Requirements, Patent World, Issue 51 (April 1993) and A United States Patent Law Primer, Patent Yearbook, 1993, Managing Intellectual Property, Euromoney Publications, plc (1993).
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS New York
Registered Patent Attorney: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. | 