Stanley H. Lieberstein

Mr. Lieberstein is a former law assistant and technical advisor to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (formerly Court of Customs and Patent Appeals). He is a former Examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office examining patent applications in the chemical arts. He served as an attorney for Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. and as Vice President and General Counsel to a major subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. He is on the Advisory Board of BNA’s Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association, and is a past President of the New Jersey Patent Law Association and of the Association of Former Law Clerks of the Court of Appeals for The Federal Circuit. He has also served on the Planning Committee for the Judicial Conference of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court. He is a frequent lecturer and has taught “Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Law” as an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport Law School. He has often represented clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology industries. His most recent cases include Knorr-Bremse v. Haldex and Dana and Janssen Pharmaceuticals v. Eon Labs, Inc. He serves as a mediator and an expert witness (most recently in Ariad v. Eli Lilly & Co.) and as a consultant in intellectual property matters.