Gerald M. Murphy, Jr.
Partner
Address
Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Suite 100 East
8110 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
USA
Telephone +1-703-205-8000
Facsimile +1-703-205-8050
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Bar Admissions
1984, Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal and Fourth Circuits and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia; 1990, Maryland; 1978, registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education
University of Maryland (B.S., Microbiology, 1976); George Mason University School of Law (J.D., 1984); George Washington University National Law Center (LL.M., highest honors, 1989).
Memberships
Virginia State Bar; London Court of International Arbitration.
Experience
Gerald Murphy has practiced intellectual property for over 30 years, and has prepared, filed and prosecuted numerous patent applications in the areas of biotechnology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Murphy has also prepared, filed and prosecuted a variety of Post-Grant Review applications, prepared and filed numerous Appeal Briefs within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has conducted numerous Oral Hearings before the U.S. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, represented clients in a variety of inter partes matters, including patent interferences and reexaminations. He has personally participated in about 30 patent interferences.
Mr. Murphy has counseled clients and prepared numerous opinions analyzing patent validity and infringement issues, managed worldwide patent portfolios, and prepared and presented numerous seminars before international audiences regarding U.S. patent statutory law and case law developments. Mr. Murphy served as the sole arbitrator in two arbitrations involving patent and licensing issues in the fields of DNA diagnostics and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, and has served as an expert witness in a patent infringement litigation and in an arbitration involving a patent license agreement.
Mr. Murphy manages BSKB's annual Summer Patent Seminar, an introductory seminar on U.S. patent practice.
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