List of patent attorneys and agents

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This is a list of notable patent attorneys and agents, including, in the section below, fictional patent attorneys.

A

• Charles Denton Abel (1831–1906), first vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

B

• Marcellus Bailey (1840–1921), 1870s U.S. law partner of Anthony Pollok who prepared telephone patents for Alexander Graham Bell
• inventor of the New York City Subway
• Sharon Bowles (born 1953), British MEP

C

• Chester Carlson (1906–1968)
• Barbarian Football Club
• Yardley Chittick (1900–2008)
• Dennis Crouch (born 1975), professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and author of the widely read patent law blog Patently-O
• George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894)

D

• George Alfred DePenning, inventor to whom the first Indian patent was granted in 1856, and who later became the first patent agent in India^[1][2]
• Peter Detkin
• Joel S. Douglas, inventor that pioneered the first alternate-site glucose meter used to treat diabetes patients.

F

• Wright Brothers, General Electric, AT&T, founder of the intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson
• Richard Frenkel, once-anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog

G

• Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of the Wizardry computer game
• Edith Julia Griswold, in her day, she was the only woman patent expert

H

• G. Donald Harrison (1889–1956), builder of music organs
• Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), father of film stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
• Ralph Horween (1896–1997), Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
• Gerald D. Hosier, patent litigator, named highest-paid attorney by Forbes magazine in 2000

I

• John Imray (1820–1902), second president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

J

• John Henry Johnson (1828–1900), first president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

K

• Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan (2010–2011)
• William ("Bill") Keefauver, formerly chief patent lawyer for Bell Labs; responsible for Gottschalk v. Benson, test case in which Bell Labs attempted (unsuccessfully) to get patent on algorithm; later Vice President and General Counsel of AT&T Bell Laboratories and Corporate Vice President – Law of AT&T with responsibility for intellectual property law matters
• Florence King (1870–1924), first female patent attorney in America
• Stephan Kinsella (born 1965), Libertarian legal theorist

L

• Otto Lee, mayor of Sunnyvale

M

• Alan MacPherson (1934–2008), the "dean of patent law" in Silicon Valley
• Air Force Reserve test pilot in World War II

• William Newton (1786–1861), one of the earliest recorded patent agents practising in London[3]

P

• Anthony Pollok (1829–1898), 1870s US law partner of Marcellus Bailey who prepared telephone patents for Alexander Graham Bell

R

• Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to the Free Software Foundation
• Greg "Fossilman" Raymer (born 1964), winner of the main event at the 2004 World Series of Poker
• Giles Sutherland Rich
  (1904–1999)
• Malcolm Royal (1941–2006), Australian patent attorney and educator

S

• Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co., Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, Gottschalk v. Benson, United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd., Dann v. Johnston, Parker v. Flook
  . Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School (since 1990).

• Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr.
  (1858–1942)
• Timothy Tau, writer, filmmaker, law professor & federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable Roy S. Payne

W

• origin of life
  theorist
• Thomas Blanco White, British patent lawyer; inductee to the IP (Intellectual property) Hall of Fame in 2010
• Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

Fictional characters who are patent attorneys

• Jim Eisenberg, played by Adam Arkin in the TV miniseries A Year in the Life
• Oliver Farnsworth, from the novel
  its film adaptation
  , of the same name
• Harriet Korn, played by Kathy Bates, of Harry's Law, a recently fired patent lawyer
• Wally Mason, in the book Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories by Brian C. Coad
• Eustis Miller, in the TV series King of the Hill; father of Bobby's classmate Randy
• George Stobbart, from the Broken Sword adventure games
• Harry Wykoff, in the six-hour
  mini-series Wild Palms
• Calvin's father, in comic strip Calvin and Hobbes; the father of Bill Watterson, the creator of this cartoon series, is a patent attorney