ArentFox Schiff

Patent

Partner

Rich is the Patent Practice Leader for ArentFox Schiff’s IP group – more than 70 attorneys and IP professionals.

Rich’s diverse practice and vast experience ranges in technology areas from mechanical, software, AI, semiconductors, ceramic materials, polymers, textiles, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medical devices, automotive, financial business methods, and fashion/footwear. Rich also provides counseling on trademark and copyright procurement and enforcement for a full 360° IP approach to your portfolio. In addition, Rich has handled hundreds of IP license, joint development, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and handled the IP due diligence in M&A transactions ranging in size from multiple millions to multiple billions of dollars. As a former packaging engineer and patent attorney at a leading cosmetic company, Rich has particular proficiency with issues involving packaging and materials engineering and understands the unique issues that in-house counsel are facing. Having also lived and worked in Japan, Rich understands that advice needs to also take cross-border issues into account.

Rich is a member of the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section; and a former member of the New York State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section; and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is also a former co-chair of the Patent Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section.

Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, JD, 1997 Rochester Institute of Technology, BS, 1992