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Duane M. Byers
Mr. Byers has extensive intellectual property experience in patent and trademark litigation, and patent and trademark prosecution and inter partes practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a number of foreign patent and trademark offices. He also has experience in copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition matters. He is a registered Patent Attorney and is admitted to practice in a number of state and federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Byers' patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation activities have involved the representation of various multi-national corporations in over twenty state and federal courts, with discovery spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. His patent experience encompasses chemical, mechanical, and electromechanical technologies. His trademark practice is both domestic and international, including prosecution experience in seventy (70) countries and opposition experience in ten (10) countries. His broad litigation and prosecution experience is also utilized in his opinion and licensing work.
Mr. Byers was admitted as a member in Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.
From 1980 to 1983, he was employed by DuPont as an engineer. While working for DuPont, he participated in the research, development, and exploitation of a number of different technologies. His DuPont activities also involved the licensing and transfer of various technologies to multi-national companies based in Europe, Asia, and South America.
Mr. Byers is a member of the Virginia Bar, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Trademark Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Education
- University of Virginia
(B.S. Chem. Eng., with distinction, 1980; J.D. 1986)
Direct Contact
- Phone: 1-703-816-4009
- Fax: 1-703-816-4100
- email: dmb@nixonvan.com