Background
Hovey, Robert D. was born in 1931.
Hovey, Robert D. was born in 1931.
University of Kansas (Bachelor of Arts). University of Kansas (Bachelor of Laws).
Worked at Hovey, Williams, Timmons & Collins (Overland Park, Kansas) specializing in United States and Foreign Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competition Law exclusively, including Trials and Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1954. 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.