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Raymond C. Stewart
Founding Partner
Senior Counsel
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
E-mail: rcs@bskb.com
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Bar Admissions: 1968, Virginia, District of
Columbia and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1971, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of
Virginia; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1982, U.S.
Court of Federal Claims and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; registered to
practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education: Ohio State University (B.Sc., 1958); University of
California at Berkeley (M.S., 1960); Georgetown University (J.D., 1968).
Membership: Virginia State Bar (Board of Directors, Intellectual
Property Law Section, 1993-1996); American Bar Association; Patent Lawyers Club of
Washington, D.C. (President, 1972-1973); American Intellectual Property Law Association;
American Chemical Society; International Trademark Association (Editorial Board, The
Trademark Reporter, 1990-1993, 1996-1999); Fédération Internationale des Conseils en
Propriété Industrielle ("FICPI") (Executive Committee, 1994- ; President, U.S.
Section, 2000- ); Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada.
Experience:
Mr. Stewart has practiced patent law since 1960, first as a patent examiner, and
since 1964 in private practice. His specialty is organic chemistry with particular
emphasis on pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals and polymers and, in recent years, the
neurosciences and biotechnology.
Mr. Stewart is an expert in interference practice and has been active on interference
panels and committees for a number of years. He has been a frequent lecturer on U.S.
patent law and practice before numerous groups and associations in the United States and
abroad.
Mr. Stewart supervises the patent portfolios of a variety of companies. He also handles
a large docket of trademark applications and inter partes matters.
Mr. Stewart has been Chairman of the BSKB Summer Training Program for patent students
since 1983. He has also been active internationally in discussions concerning the Patent
Law Treaty and as a lecturer and writer concerning the NAFTA and GATT Treaties.
Specifically, Mr. Stewart represented FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual
Property Attorneys), an NGO, at the Diplomatic Conference on Patent Law Harmonization at
The Hague in 1991. Mr. Stewart also attended the Diplomatic Conference on the Patent Law
Treaty held in Geneva in June 2000 as an observer for FICPI. He is currently the Vice
President of the Work and Study Commission of FICPI and is the Immediate Past President of
the U.S. section of FICPI. In these activities, Mr. Stewart has often participated in
discussions among governmental as well as non-governmental organizations with respect to
issues involved in harmonizing the patent laws of various countries in the world.
Since about 1990, Mr. Stewart's primary activities in the law firm have included
litigation, the preparation of patent validity and infringement opinions, appeals work,
client counseling, the management of patent and trademark portfolios (domestic and
foreign), interference practice, due diligence studies, arbitration and trademark
oppositions and cancellations.
- Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1960-1962: Examined patent applications in the
field of polymer chemistry. Chemical and Engineering News, American Chemical Society,
Washington, D.C. Technical writer and editor, 1962-1964. Wrote and edited various news
articles concerning technical advances and developments in the chemical field.
- Dicke & Craig, Washington, D.C. Patent Agent, 1964-1968: All phases of chemical
patent prosecution.
- Craig, Antonelli, Stewart & Hill, Washington, D.C. Patent attorney; partner;
1968-1971: All phases of chemical patent prosecution; wrote and prosecuted many patent
applications in the field of microbiology with application to the production of
pharmaceuticals by fermentation.
- Stewart & Kolasch, Ltd., Arlington/Falls Church, VA, Founding partner, 1971-1976:
Complete range of chemical and biochemical patent law including the preparation and
prosecution of patent applications in various fields of chemistry, particularly
pharmaceutical chemistry.
- Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP, Falls Church, VA, Founding partner, 1976-2004:
All of the above, plus validity and infringement opinions, appeals work, management of
client patent portfolios, client counseling, a plurality of interference cases, due
diligence studies and arbitration.
- Lecturer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Academy, 1978-1992.
- Member, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association.
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