Background
Van Hoozer, Thomas H. was born in 1953 in Fayette, Missouri, United States.
Van Hoozer, Thomas H. was born in 1953 in Fayette, Missouri, United States.
University of Kansas (Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering). University of Kansas (Juris Doctor).
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, 1978, Kansas. 1979, United States. Court of Military Appeals.
1986, Missouri; 1995, United States. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit. Registered to practice before the United States.
Patent and Trademark Office. Pi Tau Sigma. Law Clerk, 10th Judicial District of Kansas, 1976-1978. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan (Chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee, 1989-1990) and Kansas Bar Associations.
The Missouri Bar.; Military: Commander, Judge Advocate, General Corps., United States. Navy, 1978-1986; With United States. Naval Reserve, 1986+13.
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 (Chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee, 1989-1990) and Kansas Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar.; Military: Commander, Judge Advocate, General Corps., United States. Navy, 1978-1986; With United States.
Naval Reserve, 1986+13.