Background
Collins, John M. was born on June 29, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Collins, John M. was born on June 29, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Kansas State University (Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 1969). University of Chicago (Juris Doctor, 1972).
Worked at Hovey, Williams, Timmons & Collins (Kansas City, Missouri) specializing in United States and Foreign Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competition Law exclusively, including Trials and Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1972, Illinois. 1973, Missouri; 1982, United States.
Supreme Court.
1983, United States. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. Registered to practice before United States.
Patent and Trademark Office. Phi Kappa Phi. Keynote Speaker on The Law and The Human Genome Project, International Meeting.
Author: "The Uncertainty Principle: Traditional Patent Law Doctrine, Its Impact Upon Genomic Discoveries, and the Need for Reform," Bilbao, Spain, May, 1993.
Member: Kansas City Metropolitan and Illinois State Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar.
Hovey, Williams, Timmons & Collins is a partnership whose practice is exclusively devoted to intellectual property law. The firm had its origin in 1929 when C. Earl Hovey and Roy Hamilton announced their association as Hovey and Hamilton, at the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Kansas City, Missouri.
The firm evolved as Hovey, Schmidt, Johnson and Hovey, until Earl Hovey"s death in 1959.
At that time, the present partnership structure was initiated, and the name of the firm changed to Schmidt, Johnson, Hovey & Williams.
Member: Kansas City Metropolitan and Illinois State Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar.