Biography:
Born New York City August 6, 1933.
Bar admissions
- States: 1959 New York, 1970 Connecticut, 1972 Illinois
- Federal: U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- U.S. District Courts: Connecticut, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Courts of Appeals: 2d, 7th, and Federal Circuits
- U.S. Supreme Court.
Education:
- Cornell University (B.A. 1955)
- Harvard University (LL.B. 1958)
Employment:
- Former patent attorney Remington Rand Univac.
- Former General Patent Counsel, General Time Corp.
- Former Chief Patent Counsel, Baxter-Travenol Laboratories, Inc.
- Formerly of counsel, Michael Best & Friedrich, Chicago, Illinois.
Academic positions:
- John Marshall Law School:
- Associate Professor 1976-79.
- Adjunct Professor 1979-1995.
- Loyola Law School, Adjunct Professor 1996.
Publications:
- Callmann, Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies (10 volumes) (4th Ed 1981), West Publishing Co.
- Business Competition Law Advisor (Monthly) (1983-1985).
- Chapter 20, Intellectual Property, Construction Law, Matthew Bender (1986).
- Chapter 22, Unfair Competition, and Chapter 25, Trademarks, Legal Compliance Checkups, Clark Boardman Callaghan (1985).
- A Quick Point Regarding Perpetual Trade Secret Royalty, 61 Journal of the Patent Office Society, 510, 13 John Marshall Law Review 127 (1979).
- Is There an Afterlife? The Effect of Patent or Copyright Expiration on License Agreements, 64 Journal of the Patent Office Society 297 (1982).
- Leading Trade Identity and Unfair Competition Decisions Reported in 1983, Developments 1984, p. 151, John Marshall Law School (1984).
- Leading Trade Identity and Unfair Competition Decisions Reported in 1984, Developments 1985, p. 161, John Marshall Law School, Chapter 11, 1985 Patent Law Annual, Southwestern Legal Foundation (1985).
- Leading Trade Identity and Other Unfair Competition Decisions Reported in 1985, Developments 1986, p. 1, John Marshall Law School (1986).
- Leading Trade Identity and Other Unfair Competition Decisions Reported in 1986, Developments 1987, p. 1, John Marshall Law School (1987).
- Leading Trade Identity and Other Unfair Competition Decisions Reported in 1987, Developments 1988, p. 1, John Marshall Law School (1988).
- Trademark Registration Developments: 1980-1985, Changes in Intellectual Property Law in the Eighties p. 150, American Bar Association (1986).
- Intellectual Property Law and the Construction Industry, Developments 1988, p. 849, John Marshall Law School (1988), Part I, 70 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 491 (August 1988), and Part II, 71 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 600 (August 1989);
- Copyright on Architectural Works, 33 Idea 1 (1993).
Organizations:
- Vice-President Emeritus, Ensemble Espanol (Spanish dance group)
- Former director, 58 Group (modern dance)
- Director, Sarasota Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, 2008-2010, 2012-
- President, Society for Humanistic Judaism, 2006-2012
- Director and Executive Committee member, Humanists of Florida Association, 2007-
- Director, The Humanist Institute, 2008-
- Director, American Humanist Association, 2009-2012
- Director, Institute for Humanist Studies, 2010-
- Director, International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, 2010-2013
- Director, Humanists of Sarasota Bay, 2010-
Listed in:
- Who's Who in America
- Who's Who in American Law
- Who's Who in the World
Winner of the Gerald Rose Memorial Award, 1988, from John Marshall Law School for "Intellectual Property Law and the Construction Industry."
Awarded the 2012 Sherwin T. Wine Lifetime Achievement Award, which is "presented annually to individuals who have over the years exemplified extraordinary dedication, devotion, adherence to and activity in the Secular Humanistic Judaism Movement and the philosophical doctrines enunciated by the Movement's founder, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine."