Melvin Blecher

Background

Blecher, Melvin was born on July 19, 1922 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Tessie (Katzman) Blecher.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Rutgers University, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1954; Juris Doctor, Georgetown University, 1986.

Career

Worked at Foley & Lardner. Admitted to the bar, 1987, Pennsylvania and United States. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

1992, District of Columbia.

1994, United States. District Court for the District of Columbia, United States. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia and United States.

Supreme Court. Registered to practice before United States.

Patent and Trademark Office. Phi Beta Kappa. Author: "Procedure for Gene Patents," Nature, 361:11E (1993).

"Burroughs Wellcome Wins in the Federal Circuit On the Inventorship Issue Raised in AZT Litigation," Biotechnology Law Report 14:36 (1995). "Utility Rejections Continue in the Guise of Enablement (Operability) Rejections: Effect of In re: Brana," Gene Technology Newsletter 14:28 (1995).

"Profiting From Inventions in Academia: United States. and British Perspectives," Annual

Clinical Bio-chemical, 30:1-10, 1992. "Whose Issue Is lieutenant?" J. International

Federal Clinical Chemistry, 1:30, 1989 and 3:116, 1991.

"Dominating Patents: A View from the Bridge," Clinical Chemistry, September, 1988. "A Patent Law Primer for Scientists," Clinical

Chemistry 33:432, 1987.

"Fundamentals of Biotechnology Patent Law and Practice," The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry News 1:4, 1987.

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University. Member: The District of Columbia Bar.

Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.

American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member, Chemical Practice Committee, Biotechnology Committee). American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Endocrine Society.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Military: With United States Air Force, 1943-1946.

Achievements

• Melvin Blecher has been listed as a reputable lawyer, biology professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Receptors and Human Disease

Membership

Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member, Chemical Practice Committee, Biotechnology Committee).

American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Endocrine Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Military: With United States Air Force, 1943-1946. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Military: With United States Air Force, 1943-1946.

Connections

Married Doris Burton, 1950 (divorced). Married Marlene Selner, 1966 (divorced). Married Jocelyn M. B. Hicks, May 1, 1973.

Children: Marjorie Ellen, Jonathan Burton.

Father:

Jacob Blecher

Mother:

Tessie (Katzman) Blecher

Spouse:

Jocelyn M. B. Hicks

Spouse:

Doris Burton

Spouse:

Marlene Selner

child:

Jonathan Burton Blecher

child:

Marjorie Ellen Blecher