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ROBERT P. COGAN
ROBERT P. COGAN is a Partner in the San Diego office.Mr. Cogan's area of practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law including patent and trademark prosecution and litigation, trade secrets, licensing, computer law and copyrights.He is actively involved in all aspects of client counseling involving development of intellectual property portfolios and exploitation of technology, commercial technology transactions, software licensing and government contracting.Mr. Cogan counsels clients across a broad range of technologies, including electronics, digital systems, computer processors, software programs and architectures, telecommunications and the Internet, semiconductor manufacturing, systems integration, medical devices, business methods and sophisticated mechanical devices.
Prior to returning to private practice in 1997, Mr. Cogan was, during the 1980s and 1990s, chief patent counsel of EG&G, Inc, then a Fortune 200 company with diversified high technology operations on all seven continents.His prior experience also includes operational management in a medical devices company.Mr. Cogan began his patent career in the General Electric Company Patent Lawyer Development Program in Washington, D.C. in 1966.
Mr. Cogan is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association, Licensing Executives Society, and the San Diego Venture Group, National Defense Industries Association and the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association.He has been a speaker before numerous professional groups on intellectual property procurement, enforcement, licensing and technology transfer, government contracting in high technology and Food and Drug Administration medical devices regulation.
Mr. Cogan was awarded a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City in 1966, and received a Juris Doctor Degree from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1970.
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