edit Joseph D. Cohen

Stoel Rives LLP, 900 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2600, Portland, OR 97204-1268
503.294.9452

edit Resume

edit Legal Employment History

Lawyer; Partner Stoel Rives LLP, 1982-

Law clerk to the Honorable James T. Giles, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980-82.

edit Law Practice

Patent disputes and analysis, including patent litigation, counseling, opinions, appeals, reexamination, and interferences.

edit Technology Background and Legal Experience

Division of Sponsored Research systems programmer, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1969-78;
Bedford Computer Corporation, systems programmer, 1979

• Semiconductor / Component Processing: semiconductor handing equipment; automated testing and sorting of miniature electronic components; focused ion beam systems

• Electronic / Hardware/Software / Telecommunications: automated, self-calibrating smoke alarms, intrusion alarms, switchable external hard disks and peripherals, oscilloscope signal sampling, computerized food-inspection and processing, signal processing for electronic test equipment, oscilloscopes display processing, videotape encoding, data compression, intelligent video surveillance, neural networks , interactive telephonic transportation information systems, telecommunications for alarm reporting, prepaid phone cards and phone systems, credit authorization systems; bar-code scanners

• Chemical / Physical Analysis: liquid particle counters, continuous flow analysis of liquid samples, total organic carbon analysis systems for pharmaceutical water, color printer ink and ink sticks, laser / fluorescent biological particle detection, composite plastic films

edit Professional Activities

American Bar Association, committee memberships: Patent Inter Partes Proceedings, Patent Law, Patent Litigation; American Intellectual Property Law Association, committee memberships: Interference, Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Patent Relations with the PTO; IPO, committee memberships: Interference Committee; Oregon State Bar Committee on Federal Practice and Procedure, 1989-92 (chair, 1991-92).

edit Articles

Author, “What’s Really Happening in Inter Partes Reexamination,” 87 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 207 (2005); author, “Judicial Enforcement and Review of Arbitration Awards,” Arbitration and Mediation (Oregon CLE 1996); author, “Copyrights,” Advising Oregon Businesses (Oregon CLE 1991 & Supp 1995); co-editor Federal Civil Litigation in Oregon (Oregon CLE, 1994).

edit Education

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1980, Comment editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1979-80
B.A., Franconia College, 1972,
Bronx High School of Science, New York, NY, 1964

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