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Areas of Practice:

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Licensing
• General Intellectual Property

Mr. Solomon is chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. He is a registered patent attorney and certified mediator with substantial oversight and management responsibilities over more than 25 years of preparing and prosecuting patents and trademark applications, client counseling, licensing, negotiating, and litigating. The primary focus of his practice is management large client patent and trademark portfolios throughout the world. He is currently teaching a course on trademark law as an adjunct faculty member at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

Mr. Solomon joined us from a large national law firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO, where he was senior partner in the chemical arts, with responsibilities including management, oversight, development and training of attorneys and paralegals in an intellectual property department of about forty attorneys, and department head of professional liability responsible for compliance with ethical obligations, maintenance of professional standards and avoidance of liability, including policy development and implementation and management and oversight of sophisticated docketing personnel, procedures and software.

Mr. Solomon's expertise includes drafting and prosecuting a wide range of intellectual property agreements, and preparing patentability, validity and infringement opinions on behalf of clients. He has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications on behalf of several Fortune 1,000 companies and pre-eminent universities.

Over the last fifteen years, Mr. Solomon's practice has focused primarily on managing large, international intellectual property portfolios, from obtaining and securing rights through the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications, to protecting such rights offensively and pro-actively through client counseling, policing, licensing and litigating, as well as protecting his clients defensively against rights asserted by others. In managing such portfolios, he coordinates client's intellectual property rights by developing sophisticated strategies aimed at comprehensive coverage of clients' rights in view of their business needs and goals. Mr. Solomon has managed entire international intellectual property portfolios, each comprising hundreds to well over one thousand patents and trademarks, for: Converse Inc., Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc., Petrolite Corp., and Astaris LLC (a joint venture of Solutia Inc. and FMC Corporation) and, at all times throughout the last 15+ years, he has served as lead or coordinating attorney in dozens of litigation matters pending throughout the world, including trademark oppositions and cancellation proceedings, as well as patent and trademark infringement lawsuits.

He has substantial practice area experience in many industry sectors and technologies including those involving the chemical arts and the mechanical arts. He has prepared and prosecuted applications for products and processes in biochemical and pharmaceutical technologies, petroleum industry technologies and industrial chemistry, among other areas.

In 1992, Mr. Solomon received the President’s Award of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and in 2005, the first year "Super Lawyers" were named in Missouri, Mr. Solomon was selected as a Super Lawyer, an honor based on peer recognition and professional achievement and granted to only five percent of the lawyers in the state.

On a pro bono basis, Mr. Solomon has chaired or co-chaired several committees on behalf of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and also served as President of the American Jewish Congress, West Central Region, among other professional and community activities. Bar Admissions:

• Illinois
• Missouri
• Pennsylvania
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Member and past-chair of the following committees and task force:
• Bicentennial of the US Constitution
• Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights
• Individual Rights & Responsibilities
• Legislative
• Task Force on Family Issues
• American Bar Association, member of the Intellectual Property Committee
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Illinois, Missouri and Pennsylvania Bars Member
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Member
• American Bar Association
• International Trademark Association

Education:

• Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
  Certificate in Mediation, 2009
• Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois
  J.D. 1981
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
  B.S. - Chemical Engineering
  1978

Civic Leadership:

• Board of Directors, St. Louis Journalism Review
• Past President, American Jewish Congress, West Central Region
• Former Board member and newsletter editor, Missouri Coalition Against Censorship
• Conference Co-Sponsor and Organizer, “Democracy for the Many, A Place for Us” Webster University, St. Louis, MO
• International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE), an institution for advanced studies, original research and high achievement open to those scoring in the 99.9th percentile of a standard test of intellectual ability
• Judge, Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Awards (BMEidea) established by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA; Hadley, MA), an alliance of nearly 200 colleges and universities
• Author of several articles published in the St. Louis Daily Record (the daily paper of the St. Louis legal community), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Telicom (The Journal of ISPE) and ipfrontline.com