Background
Higgins, Willis E. was born on August 7, 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Higgins, Willis E. was born on August 7, 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
University of Pittsburgh (Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Engineering, 1962). University of Chicago (Juris Doctor, 1965).
Worked at Cooley Godward Limited Liability Partnership (Palo Alto, California) specializing in General Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1966, Michigan. 1968, Vermont; 1976, Arizona.
1978, California.
Registered to practice before United States. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Attorney: Dow Chemical Company, 1965-1967.
International Business Machines Corporation, 1967-1973.
Patent Attorney and Senior Patent Attorney, Motorola, Incorporated, 1974-1976. Patent Counsel and Director of Patents and Trademarks, National Semiconductor Corporation, 1976-1978.
Member: Peninsula Patent Law Association (President, 1984-1985). Cooley Godward Limited Liability Partnership specializes in representing emerging, high growth and established companies and the financial institutions that serve them.
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Palo Alto Area, Vermont and American (Chairman, Patent Protection Subcommittee, Software Committee, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, 1985-1986) Bar Associations. State Bar of Michigan. State Bar of Arizona.
State Bar of California (Member, Executive Committee, Intellectual Property Section, since 1988).
San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association. Peninsula Patent Law Association (President, 1984-1985).
American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Resident, Palo Alto Office).