Jerry L. Coon
Of Counsel
(203) 327-4500 x123
jcoon@ogrp.com
Mr. Coon has extensive experience handling a wide range of intellectual property
legal issues, including domestic and international licensing, developing
intellectual property strategies supportive of business strategies, trade secret
and patent portfolio creation and management, client counseling on designing
around valid patents, infringement/invalidity opinions and product clearances,
oppositions, and intellectual property aspects of acquisitions and divestments.
In addition to licensing agreements, he also has extensive experience with
drafting and negotiating agreements relating to the protection of intellectual
property, including consulting, technology evaluation, secrecy, joint
development, and acquisition and divestment agreements.
Prior to joining OGRP, Mr. Coon served as in-house intellectual property counsel
at Union Carbide Corporation, BASF Corporation and most recently Praxair, Inc.
He has prepared and prosecuted worldwide patent portfolios involving diversified
technologies, such as coatings, industrial gases, electronics, specialty
chemicals and plastics, adhesives, emulsion polymers, silicones and urethane
intermediates, molecular sieves, lubricants, ethylene oxide glycol/ethylene
oxide derivatives, specialty polymers and composites, and agricultural
chemicals.
Education
Utah State University, BS, Microbiology
John Marshall Law School, JD
Admissions/Affiliations
Registered Attorney, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
American Intellectual Property Law Association
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