Background
Witherspoon, John F. was born on March 26, 1933 in Danville, Illinois, United States.
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John F. Witherspoon
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Eastern Illinois University. United States Military Academy. University of Illinois (Bachelor of Science, 1955.
Master of Education, 1958. Master of Science, 1960). Georgetown University (Juris Doctor, 1964).
Career
Admitted to the bar, 1965, District of Columbia. 1965-1982, United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
1968, United States. Supreme Court. 1982, United States. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Registered to practice before United States.
Patent and Trademark Office. Delta Theta Phi. Author: "So-Called Common Assignee Double PatentingAn Issue in Search for a Home," APLA Quarterly Journal, Volume IV, No. 4, p. 329, 1976; "The Board of Appeals of the United States Patent and Trademark Office," Annual of Industrial Property, Warden Education, 1976, Common Law Reports Ltd., London, England.
"Ex Parte Patent Developments," 81 F.R.D. 164, 1978. "The Standard of Patentability in the United States," AIPLA Selected Legal Papers, Volume IV, No. 1, p.F-1, 1986; "Wilson Sporting Goods: Clarification or Confusion?" 140 F.R.D. 125, 1991.
"Turning the Corner: A Tribute to Judge Giles Sutherland Rich," 76 J.Pat. & Trademark Off. Society'y, 332, 1994. Co-Author: "United States.
Patent Law and Practice," Seminar Services International, Brussels, Belgium, 1976. Editor: "Nonobviousnessthe Ultimate Condition of Patentability," The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1980. Distinguished Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Coordinator of specialty track in Intellectual Property Law, George Mason University School of Law, 1992.
Lecturer: John Marshall Law School Symposia, 1967, 1975, 1979. The Practising Law Institute, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1980. The Institute for International Learning, 1975-1980, 1984.
The Bureau of National Affairs, 1982. Program Director, The Bureau of National Affairs' Patent Law Conferences, Washington, D.C., 1977-1980. Member, Advisory Board, BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 1979.
Examiner-in-Chief and Member, Board of Appeals, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1971-1978. Law Clerk to Judge Giles S. Rich, United States.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1964-1966. Member: District of Columbia Bar (Chair, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Division, 1980-1981). Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Member: Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section.
Council, 1971-1974, 1980-1983). American Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property Law Section). Federal Circuit Bar Association (Chair, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1989-1992).
American Intellectual Property Law Association (Chair, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1981-1983). International Intellectual Property Association. Maryland Patent Law Association.
New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Licensing Executives Society. American Judicature Society.
Master; The Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court. American Chemical Society. Patent and Trademark Office Society.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. New York Academy of Sciences.
Membership
Member, Advisory Board, BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 1979. Examiner-in-Chief and Member, Board of Appeals, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1971-1978.
Law Clerk to Judge Giles S. Rich, United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1964-1966. Member: District of Columbia Bar (Chair, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Division, 1980-1981).
Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Member: Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section. Council, 1971-1974, 1980-1983). American Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property Law Section).
Federal Circuit Bar Association (Chair, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1989-1992). American Intellectual Property Law Association (Chair, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1981-1983). International Intellectual Property Association.
Maryland Patent Law Association. New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Licensing Executives Society.
American Judicature Society. Master; The Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court. American Chemical Society.
Patent and Trademark Office Society. American Association for the Advancement of Science. New York Academy of Sciences.
