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The founder of IPWachdog.com is Gene Quinn, who is a patent attorney, law professor and author. He launched IPWatchdog.com in October of 1999, and since that time the site has been a trusted resource on intellectual property for millions of unique visitors who have come here for information and news.
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My name is Gene Quinn and I am a Patent Attorney, Law Professor and the Founder of IPWatchdog.com. My primary areas of expertise are in the areas of patent and trade secret law and patent prosecution, although earlier in my legal career I was a litigator and even spent time as Vice President & General Counsel of an independent record label/dot-com company known as Orlando Records. I am an inventor myself, an author and an entrepreneur. I am the lead contributing author for the PLI Patent Practice Center, and between 2003 and 2007 I wrote a monthly column for Patent World and served on the Patent World editorial board. I am also a member of the Board of Directors of the United Inventors Association, which is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with the mission of coordinating individual inventors and inventor associations for the express purpose of actively addressing their issues and challenges at both the national (USA) and global level. I am admitted to practice law in the State of New Hampshire (USA), registered to practice before the United States Patent Office (Reg. No. 44,294) and am admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  |
