Intellectual Property/Technology Attorney
Greater Philadelphia Area
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- Outside Patent and Trademark Counsel at Quick-Med Technologies, Inc.
- Owner at Elman Technology Law, P.C.
- Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Biotechnology Law Report
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- Faculty Member at University of Phoenix Online Campus
- Trial Attorney at Antitrust Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice
- Deputy Attorney General at Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice
- Patent and Trademark Attorney at Rohm and Haas Company
- Education
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- Columbia University School of Law
- Stanford University
- University of Chicago
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Gerry Elman’s Summary
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 peer-reviewed Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
As a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he conducted litigation on behalf of the Commonwealth, primarily involving antitrust or utility regulation. Later, as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, he participated in civil and criminal investigations and complex litigation, including a trial of five pharmaceutical companies accused of fraud on the U.S. Patent Office.
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 San Diego, where Professor Robert Bohrer and a team of his law students edit and contribute scholarly articles for the journal.
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. From 1994 to 1999 he served as the sysop for intellectual property/legal matters in the Ideas, Inventions & Innovations Forum, on CompuServe.
Gerry is the webmaster and a member of the board of the the Stanford Club of Philadelphia.
Gerry Elman’s Specialties:
patents, trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property, antitrust, Internet law, cyberlaw, biotechnology law, computer law, dispute resolution, expert witness, intellectual property mediation, intellectual property arbitration
Gerry Elman’s Experience
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Outside Patent and Trademark Counsel
Quick-Med Technologies, Inc.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; QMDT; Pharmaceuticals industry)
August 2004 — Present (3 years 10 months)
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Owner
Elman Technology Law, P.C.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)
October 1988 — Present (19 years 8 months)
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Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Biotechnology Law Report
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
January 1982 — Present (26 years 5 months)
For 25 years have supervised publication by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., of this journal for lawyers and regulatory affairs professionals on issues relating to biotechnology.
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Faculty Member
University of Phoenix Online Campus
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; APOL; E-Learning industry)
May 1994 — July 1996 (2 years 3 months)
Taught the first online courses on Intellectual Property Management at the University of Phoenix Online.
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Trial Attorney
Antitrust Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)
October 1976 — September 1982 (6 years)
Did civil and criminal investigations of suspected anticompetitive activity. Litigation in federal court on whether patent for tetracycline was gotten by fraud on Patent Office.
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Deputy Attorney General
Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)
October 1972 — October 1976 (4 years 1 month)
Chief of Antitrust Unit and member of Litigation Section of Penna. Dept. of Justice. State Public Utility Commission regulatory proceedings; civil antitrust litigation in federal courts; investigation of anticompetitive behavior in gasoline industry; defended Governor in state court.
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Patent and Trademark Attorney
Rohm and Haas Company
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ROH; Chemicals industry)
October 1968 — October 1972 (4 years 1 month)
Preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications; generation of license agreements; and general intellectual property advice for health products and enzymes groups and MicroMedic Systems joint venture with Battelle.
Gerry Elman’s Education
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Columbia University School of Law
J.D., Law, 1964 — 1967
Research assistant to Prof. Harlan Blake for Blake & Pitofsky casebook on antitrust law.
- Activities and Societies:
- Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia Law School News
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Stanford University
M.S., Chemistry, 1963 — 1964
Generated computer programs in Algol at the "Stanford Computation Center" the year the first computers with integrated circuits were unveiled. Teaching assistant in chemistry. Thesis on digital computer analysis of spectrophotometric data under Prof. John Brauman in the lab of Prof. Carl Djerassi.
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University of Chicago
S.B., Physical Sciences (Chemistry), October 1959 — June 1963
- Activities and Societies:
- Founder and editor of Particle student science journal, teaching assistant in chemistry, Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, National Merit Scholar.
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Gerry Elman’s Groups:
Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court (former board member and webmaster), Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Ass'n (former chair, Patent Legislation/PTO Coordination cmte.), American Bar Ass'n, International Technology Law Ass'n (formerly the Computer Law Association), World Technology Network, Converging Technologies Bar Ass'n.
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Bionanotechies member
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