Background
DeGrandi, Joseph Anthony was born in 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
DeGrandi, Joseph Anthony was born in 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Bachelor of Science, Trinity College, Hartford, 1949; Master of Science, George Washington University, 1950; Bachelor of Laws, George Washington University, 1952.
Partner, Beveridge, DeGrandi, Weilacher & Young, Washington, since 1962. Member of advisory board Marymount School, Arlington, Virginia, president, 1969-1972. Member President's Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation, 1978-1979.
Legal advisor United States delegation Diplomatic Conference for Revision of Paris Convention, Nairobi, Kenya,1981, Treaty on Harmonization of Patent Laws, The Hague, 1991.
Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member Federal Bar Association, International Business Alliance, American Bar Association (chairman section patent, trademark and copyright law 1981-1982, deputy delegate 1986-1989, delegate to house of deals since 1989, nominating committee 1989-1992, 98—), Inter-American Bar Association, National Council Patent Law Associations (secretary 1971-1975, advisory panel 1975-1979), The Federal Circuit Bar Association, Bar Association District of Columbia (board directors 1968-1969, chairman patent, trademark and copyright law section 1967-1968), District of Columbia Bar Association (chairman division patent, trademark and copyright law 1978-1979), New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Patent Lawyers Club Washington (president 1959), National Lawyers Club (board governors 1984-1992, vice president 1989-1992, acting president 1991-1992), American Judicature Society, American Intellectual Property Law Association (board managers 1976-1979, Second vice president 1984-1985, 1st vice president 1985-1986, president-elect 1986-1987, president 1987-1988), Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court (master emeritus), Patent and Trademark Institute Canada, International Association for Protection Industrial Property (treasurer-general since 1989), Chartered Institute Patent Agents (Great Britain), International Patent and Trademark Association (executive committee 1978-1983, 89—, vice president 1983-1989), Licensing Executives Society, Inter-American Association Industrial Property, International Intellectual Property Association (executive committee since 1989), Federation Internationale des Conseils en Propriete Industrielle, Thomas Moore Society of America, International Club Washington (board governors 1991-1995), Rotary, Nu Beta Epsilon. Lodges: Rotary.
Married Yolanda Salica. Children: Terese, Lisa, Donna.