Background
Spencer, Richard was born in 1902 in Columbia, Missouri, United States. Son of Alexander Gibbs and Elizabeth (Smith) Spencer.
industrial property consultant lawyer
Spencer, Richard was born in 1902 in Columbia, Missouri, United States. Son of Alexander Gibbs and Elizabeth (Smith) Spencer.
Graduate study U. Paris, 1952-1954, Yale Law School, 1955-1957.
Office of Military; delegate Conference Chief procurement legal division, assistant general counsel, chief patent counsel, deputy director Office of Patents and Inventions.
Member of Missouri, Illinois, New York, District of Columbia, Connecticut bars. Member corporation patent department, Boston, 1924-1927. Member patent law firm Blair, Spencer & Buckles, Stamford, 1956-1960.
Member patent law firm Spencer, Rockwell & Bartholow, New Haven, Connecticut, since 1960.
Member of law school faculty Northwestern University, 1931-1941. First assistant and acting commissioner United States Patent Office, 1933-1936.
Member of advisory council to commission on patents United States House of Representatives, 1938-1941. Member United States delegation London Conference on German Patents, 1946.
Member United States delegation Paris Peace Conference, 1946.
Served United States Navy, 1941-1945, assistant chief procurement legal division, assistant general counsel, chief patent counsel, deputy director Office of Patents and Inventions. Member American Bar Association. Clubs: Attic, Chicago Golf (Chicago).