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ROBERT
P. COGAN is a Partner in the San Diego office. Mr. Cogan's area of practice
includes all aspects of intellectual property law including patent and
trademark prosecution and litigation, trade secrets, licensing, computer
law and copyrights. He is
actively involved in all aspects of client counseling involving development
of intellectual property portfolios and exploitation of technology,
commercial technology transactions, software licensing and government
contracting. Mr. Cogan counsels clients across a broad range of
technologies, including electronics, digital systems, computer
processors, software programs and architectures, telecommunications and the
Internet, semiconductor manufacturing, systems integration, medical
devices, business methods and sophisticated mechanical devices.
Prior to returning to private practice in 1997, Mr.
Cogan was, during the 1980s and 1990s, chief patent counsel of EG&G,
Inc, then a Fortune 200 company with diversified high technology operations
on all seven continents. His
prior experience also includes operational management in a medical devices
company. Mr. Cogan began his
patent career in the General Electric Company Patent Lawyer Development
Program in Washington, D.C. in 1966.
Mr.
Cogan is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association, Licensing
Executives Society, and the San Diego Venture Group, National Defense
Industries Association and the Armed Forces Communications Electronics
Association. He has been
a speaker before numerous professional groups on intellectual property
procurement, enforcement, licensing and technology transfer, government
contracting in high technology and Food and Drug Administration medical
devices regulation.
Mr.
Cogan was awarded a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper
Union in New York City in 1966, and received a Juris Doctor Degree from the
George Washington University National Law Center in 1970.
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