Former Patent Office Examiner and Federal Patent Court Law Clerk where he attended over 400 oral arguments and wrote over 90 opinions on patent cases. Mr. Dulin’s practice covers all phases of IP law and strategy and business consultation, principally in trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks, and in advertising, promotions and publishing law. Mr. Dulin has worked with a wide variety of major companies and Universities on patent drafting and prosecution, IP litigation and IP licensing and technology acquisition projects, including all phases of due diligence, negotiations and drafting of licensing and acquisition agreements. His patent prosecution work has included drafting and prosecuting over 500 patents, both US and foreign.
1986-2007
1967-1989
Since 1966
1966-1970
Since 2004
2011-2011
Since 1987
Since 1966
1996 - Current
Innovation Law Group, Ltd.
His extensive experience in patent prosecution, litigation and IP transactions is the foundation for his strategic approach to patent drafting, prosecution and licensing. Few if any clients can afford worldwide patent protection for every new development or idea. Thus, selection of the strategically important inventions is the key to a dynamically useful IP program. Mr. Dulin works with client management and inventors to abstract the key industry gateway concepts. Applications and claims are drafted with an eye to licensing opportunities and who in the chain of commerce relating to the invention might infringe, in order to maximize the business asset value of the invention. A prime example is the Dynetics Engineering VIS IP program, in which patents covering card carriers and methods of verification returned 10 to 1 more royalty than patents on the card insertion machine, over $30 Million vs about $3 Million.
Honors: Awarded JD degree; Order of the Coif (top 10% of class); Van Vleck Moot Court Competition winner; ASCAP's Nathan Burkan Memorial Compeition, First Prize paper on copyright law.
J.D. (1966) | Law with emphasis on IP law
Activities: Law Review, Patent Research Editor; Amicus Curiae newspaper.
Honors: DuPont Fellow
B.S. (1957) | Biochemistry
Washington State Bar Association
Clallam County Economic Development Council
Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
United States Patent and Trademark Office, US Government, Dept. of Commerce
