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STRATEGIC
LAWYERING. CULTIVATING INNOVATION. ®
Our firm, Elman Technology Law, P.C., serves the legal needs of clients in intellectual property and Internet-related business matters. We believe that our extensive experience in patent, trademark and other aspects of the law related to technology enables us to provide clients with the educated guidance needed to develop an innovation from concept stage through realization in the marketplace. As a pioneer in cyberspace, we assist clients desiring to conduct business via the Internet.
Our services include the following:
- Protecting intellectual property
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Copyrights
- Trade secrets
- Unfair competition
- Emerging forms of protection, including Internet domain names
- Assisting companies implementing computer and Internet-related technologies
- Legal issues in the deployment of electronic commerce technologies
- Patenting software and methods of doing business
- Negotiating and consummating technology-related business transactions
- Licenses, assignments and joint research projects
- Ownership of technology by employees and independent contractors
- Licensing of multimedia and online publication rights
- Performing intellectual property audits for management, investors and buyers
- Facilitating resolution of technology and business disputes
- Counseling and litigation on antitrust and regulatory issues
Our clients include developers and providers of computer and information technology, including content and applications for the Internet, companies involved in electronic commerce and in bioinformatics, companies developing new products in the biotechnology and chemical industries, and other domestic and foreign businesses and individuals that we assist in intellectual property protection, contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Often we collaborate with a client's general counsel, whether in-house or in a law firm, to add to the team our unique expertise and experienced judgment. In other instances we work with patent counsel of a foreign company to provide representation before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Gerry Elman’s slideshow on Avoiding Problems
Arising from Licensing With Troubled Companies Issues
Related to the Interface Between Intellectual Property Law and Involvency Law Presented
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August 30, 2007: Gerry was
quoted on turmoil in the September 3, 2007: Gerry was quoted by the iBLS Internet Law News
Portal on patent developments post KSR
v. Teleflex. Click HERE
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November 21, 2007: Gerry was interviewed on recent developments in patent law on the cable
tv show Money Matters. Click HERE
to watch the video. (The interview with Gerry starts 9 minutes into the show. You may find
it convenient to scroll past the preliminaries.) March 1, 2006: Gerry was interviewed on that show about various topics of intellectual
property and Internet law. Click HERE to watch the video. (The 23-minute interview with Gerry starts 5 min 30 sec into the show
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A PERFECT STORM IS BREWING – “PATENT
REFORM” Gerry Elman says: Take heed. March 25, 2006:
Taking a page from the book by Wharton professor Richard Shell,
“Make
the Rules or Your Rivals Will,” patent attorney Gerry Elman calls
attention to a “perfect storm” now brewing that could break the
U.S. patent system unless the issues are thoughtfully and carefully resolved,
requiring input from stakeholders such as you. For more information, click HERE. September 1, 2007: Supplementing his comments to the New
York Times, Gerry responded to an inquiry by the Women’s Bioethics Blog
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View
Gerry Elman’s slideshow on The Intersection of Antitrust Law
and Intellectual Property Protection Presented
at Complex Intellectual
Property Licensing Business and
Legal Issues May 19 & 20, 2005 |
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Gerry chaired a presentation on The CREATE Act an amendment to enacted December 10, 2005, at a
breakfast meeting of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
(PIPLA). April 7, 2005 The Union League in |
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View Gerry’s slideshow on The Electronic Handshake
presented at TRANSACT 1999, a continuing legal education program on electronic
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PERSONAL ATTENTION
A fundamental value at Elman Technology Law, P.C. is the importance of frequent and direct communication between the client and our firm. Our attorneys play an integral role in the development of our clients' projects, providing ongoing legal support and advice. To facilitate the timely preparation of documents and correspondence, we use computers, and we were one of the first law firms to communicate with clients by electronic mail. We have implemented Internet technology for videoconferencing with clients to enhance communication regardless of distance. Our firm is a charter partner of the international enterprise providing Internet Business Law Services (iBLS) and is a charter member of the Eastern Technology Council.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILES
We take pride in the extensive technological and business knowledge that our
professionals bring to the service of our clients. Advanced scientific
training, hands-on experience in computer programming, authorship in legal and
scientific journals, and experience within government agencies and
multinational companies, provide our firm's professionals with expanded insight
into opportunities for our clients and the laws that affect them.
GERRY J. ELMAN, Patent Attorney & Attorney at Law
M.P. MOON, Ph.D., Patent Attorney & Attorney at Law
SCOTT R. POWELL, Patent Attorney & Attorney at Law
JAHAN ARA, Ph.D., Patent Agent
YONGMEI LI, Ph.D., Science Advisor
SANDRA G. KUSHNER, Administrative Assistant & Paralegal
KATHY A. DIGGINS, Administrative Assistant & Paralegal Assistant
GERRY J. ELMAN
Patent Attorney & Attorney at Law
Gerry Elman holds a B.S. from the University of Chicago,
and an M.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University, in addition to his J.D. from the Columbia University School
of Law. He has also completed business management, foreign language and
additional law courses at Temple
University, where he subsequently developed and taught a course for lawyers
in computer law.
With
40 years of varied experience as a practicing attorney, he is also a widely
published author on technology and the law. He was a pioneer in developing a
legal practice relating to biotechnology, as well as one of the first attorneys
to work with computers and online information technology. He has been accorded
the highest rating, AV, in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and actively participates
in a roundtable of Vistage Trusted
Advisors.
After law school and working in a
He returned to private practice in 1982. At the beginning of that year, Gerry
founded the legal journal Biotechnology Law Report along with publisher Mary Ann Liebert. Since then
he has continuously served as its editor-in-chief. He has forged an alliance
with the California Western
School of Law in
Since the early days of 1982, Gerry has been an avid advocate of
computer-mediated communication, which has now become commonplace on the
Internet. Via computer, he has taught intellectual property management on the University of
Phoenix online campus. He has been an active member of the Global CyberLaw Network and the International
Technology Law Association. From 1994 to 1999 he served as the sysop for
intellectual property/legal matters in the Ideas, Inventions & Innovations
Forum, on CompuServe.
Gerry also serves on the advisory board of The Licensing Journal.
While on the advisory board of the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, he
mentored a student at
As an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, the American Intellectual Property Law Association,
and the DelCo IP Forum, Gerry helps clients to gain the maximum
value through licensing and enforcing their intellectual property rights. He
has arbitrated multi-million-dollar disputes for the American Arbitration Association,
has served as an expert witness in patent law, and has represented both
plaintiffs and defendants in litigation over intellectual property rights. In
one such case, he successfully defended the Seven-Up
Company against an accusation of copyright infringement that involved a
poster featuring a depiction of Santa Claus, 1990 U.S. Dist. Lexis 5203 (E.D.
Pa.), appeal dismissed 919 F.2d 730 (3d Cir.).
Gerry is a charter member of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court, composed of intellectual property practitioners in Greater Philadelphia. As one of the members at the "master" level of experience, he acts as a resource to help train others. He served for two years as its webmaster and on its Board of Governors.
He also serves on the intellectual property task force of the Converging Technologies Bar Association, of which he is a charter member.
Gerry chaired the Patent Legislation/Patent and Trademark Office Coordination Committee of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association from 2003 to 2006, during a time of sweeping changes in regulations and the prospect of “patent reform” on the lips of Congress.
Gerry is profiled in various biographical references, including each edition
of WHO'S WHO IN
AMERICA since 1988.
As an invited Nominator, Gerry attended the World Technology
Summit in
Gerry organized and chaired a program on Biotechnology and the Bioterrorism
Dilemma at
Gerry represents clients for a variety of intellectual property and business
matters. These frequently include the preparation and prosecution of patents,
the evaluation of adversely held patents, the registration of trademarks and
proprietary names, the licensing of intellectual property rights, the
resolution of disputes through mediation, arbitration, and if necessary,
litigation, the conduct of intellectual property audits, and related technology
law and trade regulation issues. Gerry
is also available to serve as a neutral in mediation and arbitration
proceedings involving intellectual property or technology law issues.
Click here to view Gerry Elman's Powerpoint
slideshow on Avoiding Problems
Arising from Licensing with Troubled Companies: Issues Related to the Interface
Between Intellectual Property Law and Involvency Law
presented in
May 2006 and June 2007 at a Law Seminars International workshop
on Mastering Complex Intellectual Property Licensing.
Click
here to view Gerry's slideshow on The Antitrust-Patent Interface (with a Virtual Walking Tour in Historic
Philadelphia)
presented in
May 2005 at a Law Seminars International workshop on Complex Intellectual Property Licensing.
Click
here to view Gerry's slideshow on The Electronic
Handshake presented at the Pennsylvania
Bar Institute's TRANSACT 1999, a continuing legal education program on
electronic commerce. September 30, 1999, Philadelphia Bar Education Center. The
slides include numerous hyperlinks to references; be sure to click on the
images as well as the underlined text. Gerry was a member of the panel
presenting an introductory discussion entitled Anatomy of an Electronic
Transaction. An article in the
Gerry delivered a presentation at Temple Law School on April 11, 1997. His
slides on Biotechnology
and Computer Software: The Patent System Responds to
Exploding Technologies are viewable online.
Gerry was also a speaker at the first conference on Mammalian Cloning, held in
Arlington, VA on June 27, 1997. His presentation is also available online here.
He was quoted on the subject of biotechnology patenting in the
Gerry was quoted in the January 1, 2000 issue of Genetic Engineering News
on the antitrust implications of the federal district court holding that the
patent for Taq polymerase used in the Polymerase
Chain Reaction (PCR) system was obtained by fraud on the Patent Office. And he
has been quoted on the
subject of intellectual property in the books Working
from Home by Paul Edwards and The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book by
Janet Attard.
On March 1, 2006 and then on November 21, 2007, Gerry was interviewed on the cable tv show Money Matters. Click here to view the 2006 interview, which runs from minute 5 to minute 20. Click here to view the 2007 interview, which starts at minute 9 into the video clip.
On August 30, 2007, Gerry was quoted
in the New York Times on turmoil in the
Visit Gerry’s
page on Facebook
to see a photo of him with his grandson in
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M.P. MOON, Ph.D.
Patent
Attorney & Attorney at Law
M.P. is a patent attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received his J.D. degree in December 2006
from Widener University School of Law in
M.P. earned a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has had several years experience as a synthetic organic chemist researcher with DuPont’s crop protection business.
M.P. also holds memberships in the American Chemical Society, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Patent Information User Group and recently began participating in the activities of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court and the DelCo IP Forum.
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SCOTT R. POWELL
Patent Attorney & Attorney at Law
Scott is a patent attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He
received his J.D. in May 2007 from Northern
Illinois University, in
He holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology, in
Scott has several years of experience in the computer software industry, having worked with start-up companies in businesses ranging from sales force automation to video games. During this time, he co-invented a patent-pending software system and method related to the health care industry.
Scott’s work includes the preparation and prosecution of patents for software, business methods, new systems and a variety of products. He also assists us with the preparation and prosecution of trademark registrations and with advising clients regarding Internet law.
He is a member of the American
Bar Association and the
In the Spring of 2007, Scott represented Northern Illinois University in the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition. This is the premier national moot court competition in the field of intellectual property, honoring the memory of Judge Giles Rich, who spearheaded the 1952 revisions to the U.S. patent statute and subsequently served on the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and its successor tribunal, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Judge Rich also honored us by serving as a member of the advisory board of Biotechnology Law Report (edited by Gerry Elman) from its founding in 1982 to his passing in 1999.
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SANDRA
G. KUSHNER
Administrative Assistant & Paralegal
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JAHAN ARA, Ph.D.
Patent Agent
Dr. Ara assists the firm in the field of biotechnology and medical patents. She
holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Aligarh Muslim University in
Jahan is a patent agent registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She has performed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and at the Department of Pharmacology of MCP Hahnemann University. She gained experience in intellectual property licensing working part-time at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer. We are proud to announce that Jahan was recently appointed a research assistant professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine.
Her published research includes role of oxygen free-radicals in Parkinson's disease, the development of ELISA assays for the detection of sulfamethazine in milk and studies in autoimmunity, including the antigenicity of free-radical-modified DNA.
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Administrative Assistant & Paralegal Assistant
Kathy capably assists our professionals and paralegal in the many tasks that keep the office running smoothly, and is expert in transmitting patent applications and related documents via EFS-Web and in downloading Patent Office files via PAIR.
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YONGMEI LI, Ph.D.
Science Advisor
Dr. Li assists the firm in the field of biotechnology,
chemistry and medical patents. She holds
an M.A. and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Columbia University in
She earned her B.A. from New York University also in
She is
currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania
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LOCATION
Our offices are in suburban Swarthmore and Media, Pennsylvania,
conveniently near Philadelphia,
its International
Airport and the technology hubs of Great Valley, Route 202 and Wilmington, Delaware.
A center of the American pharmaceutical and chemical industries, the Philadelphia area affords
ready accessibility by car
or train to both the seat
of government in Washington,
D.C., and the financial marketplace of New York City. Click for directions to our
office in Media.
HOW TO REACH US ONLINE
In addition to mail, courier, telephone and fax, you may communicate with us online. If you want to send email via the Internet, please do not send confidential material without first discussing with us the appropriateness of additional security in the form of encryption. Also it is important to avoid inadvertent conflicts of interest, so please do not send anything confidential in your first contact with us. The following email address can be used to send us an initial message. We use GoToMeeting to produce web conferences.
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in support of the vision of Web pioneers who conceived of hypertext as a tool
for linking virtually all recorded knowledge. However, we remind you that
anything you get from following one of the outside links is beyond our control.
Because the Web is a dynamic entity, some links may be outdated, and if that
happens we would appreciate your telling us so. Also, the existence of a link
on our site does not mean that we have any affiliation with the owner of the
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The materials included in this Web Site are for general information purposes
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the course of an attorney-client relationship, and do not constitute legal
advice. There are not intended as a substitute for obtaining legal advice from
legal counsel.
Nothing on this site is intended as a solicitation for legal or patent business
other than in accordance with the rules of the agencies and jurisdictions where
we are licensed. If you do wish to use our services, please note that there
will not be an attorney-client relationship between us until there is a signed
letter of engagement. Do not send confidential information in any initial
contacts with us.
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