Dick Samuel, is a partner at Goodwin Procter, and has practiced patent law for 42 years in both corporate and private practice. Mr. Samuel’s practice at present focuses on patent issues related to electronic commerce, Internet use and computer technology. He has also dealt with Laser technology, complex chemical issues and mechanical inventions. Mr. Samuel has extensive litigation experience at both the state and federal trial and appellate court levels.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Samuel was president and chairman of the board at Patlex Corporation. Patlex’s major activity was to pursue the patent rights of Gordon Gould. Mr. Samuel also directed litigation in the United States in the federal district courts of several states and in Canada before the Patent and Trademark Office and in the Courts of Appeal. He won four trials, two jury and two non jury, and won various summary judgments and appeals.
In addition, Mr. Samuel organized and coordinated a licensing program resulting in the licensing of virtually the entire laser industry. As a result of this program, the patent owners collected $200 million in royalties.
In the period between 1961 and today, Mr. Samuel was employed as an electrical engineer at Raytheon Company and at Harvard University, where he worked on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. He later served as a corporate patent attorney at Western Electric in Washington, D.C., and thereafter transferred to Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In addition, Mr. Samuel was in private practice as a partner in several law firms, where he specialized in patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition law.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Samuel is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as before the U.S. Courts of Appeals in the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits. He is also admitted to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (formerly the Court of Customs and Patents Appeals).