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Robert A. Molan
Mr. Molan has extensive experience in obtaining, protecting, contracting and litigating Intellectual Property rights.
Mr. Molan has been lead counsel in or otherwise participated in more than 75 lawsuits involving patents and other types of Intellectual Property rights in numerous U.S. District Courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, and the International Trade Commission. He has conducted both bench and jury trials and served as a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice, handling for the U.S. Government patent and copyright infringement lawsuits involving a variety of products and systems procured by military and civilian Government agencies and corporations. Mr. Molan believes that his litigation experience has helped him to be a better attorney in the other areas of Intellectual Property law in which he practices.
He has written and prosecuted numerous patent applications for inventions encompassing a range of electronic, electrical and mechanical technologies, including products and systems in the medical, automotive, aerospace, traffic control, computer, power generation, tool and Internet fields.
He has provided extensive counseling to clients for a wide variety of Intellectual Property matters, and negotiated and drafted numerous licenses and other types of technology agreements involving private and Government rights in patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and/or software. He has also rendered patentability, validity, and infringement opinions, and prepared and prosecuted applications for the registration of trademarks and copyright claims.
After graduating from engineering school, Mr. Molan worked for a number of years as an electronic engineer in the Long Island Aerospace Defense Industry, until he attended law school. During and after law school, Mr. Molan clerked with and then was associated with the New York City patent firm of Morgan Finnegan, until he joined the Department of Justice. Upon leaving Justice, Mr. Molan was of counsel to, and then a partner in, the D.C. patent firm of Cushman, Darby & Cushman until its merger with a large general practice firm, whereupon Mr. Molan joined Nixon & Vanderhye as a shareholder.
Mr. Molan is admitted to practice before the Virginia, District of Columbia and New York bars. His professional affiliations include the AIPLA and the Intellectual Property Law and Computer and Telecommunications Law sections of the D.C. Bar Association. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Eastern District of Michigan; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Molan is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education
- Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, 1973)
- St. John’s University (M.B.A., 1977; J.D., 1981)
Direct Contact
- Phone: 1-703-816-4038
- Fax: 1-703-816-4100
- email: ram@nixonvan.com