biography
Clif is a registered patent attorney and litigator with over 35 years of experience. He helps clients obtain, enforce, and leverage patent and trademark rights and defend against infringement challenges. He also represents clients on trade secret, trade dress, and copyright matters, and provides opinions on intellectual property availability, validity, freedom to operate, and infringement. He litigates patent and trademark disputes before the federal courts, the International Trade Commission, and the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Technologies include: Autoimmune disease treatment, banking and business methods, chemical manufacture, consumer products, corrosion prevention, data extraction, data streaming, diagnostics, e-cigarettes, encryption, fire prevention equipment, hand and power tools, hardware, industrial equipment and vehicles, laboratory equipment, measurement and detection instruments, medical devices, office machines, packaging, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical delivery, plastics, semiconductors, software, storm water treatment, TENS devices, and water and wastewater treatment equipment and processes.
Washington, D.C.
Credentials
Admissions
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Supreme Court
Education
George Washington University, LL.M., Intellectual Property, 1985
Catholic University Law School, JD, 1977
Northern Illinois University, B.A., 1972
Prior Law Firm Experience
Venable LLP
Thompson Hine LLP