Richard M. Moose

Representative Practice Areas:

• Prosecuting, managing, and coordinating domestic and international patent and trademark portfolios large and small for corporate clients.
• Litigating matters primarily concerning patents and trademarks.
• Counseling in areas such as opinions, licensing, negotiating, consultant and employee agreements, and trade secret protection.

Experience:

• Richard has been with Dority & Manning since 1985 and is a Principal of the firm, after beginning a career in intellectual property law in 1979.
• He has worked with technologies such as electrical, electro-mechanical and mechanical art areas including electrical systems, electronics, software and medical fields.
• Richard has been involved in all phases of litigation and counseling for patent, trademark and copyright matters including offensive and defensive positions, and including additional counseling areas such as licensing, negotiating, consultant and employee agreements, trade secret protection, and opinions, such as drafting infringement/non-infringement opinions, drafting validity analysis of patents, and rendering patentability opinions. Richard has extensive trademark experience, including involvement with over 800 registration matters and over 150 TTAB matters before the USPTO.
• Prior to coming to Dority & Manning, Richard was an Examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Industrial Electronics (involved specifically in electronic motor controls, battery charging systems, photocopying machinery, and electronic switches). He was also an associate attorney for electrical and other prosecution matters, for U.S. and foreign clients, at a large IP boutique firm in Washington, D.C.

Professional Background:

• Education: Clemson University (B.S., Electrical Engineering, cum laude, 1979); George Washington University (J.D., 1983).
• Admission: U.S. District Courts of South Carolina and the District of Columbia; U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, 1st Circuit, Fourth Circuit and Fifth Circuit; and U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
• Civic and Community Service: Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association (Former President); American Intellectual Property Law Association; International Trademark Association; Board Member and Officer of AID Upstate; Board Member for Lutheran Homes of South Carolina Foundation; Board Member for TLC Foundation; Former Board Member & Chair for Lutheran Homes of South Carolina.
• Honors: AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell; Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Champion; Eta Kappa Nu; Leadership Greenville (Class XXV).
• Publications: Richard has co-authored four articles appearing in the South Carolina Lawyer Magazine concerning Developments in Software and Business Method Patents, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, E-Commerce Patents, and Patent Issues generally.

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