Paul M. Rivard
Attorney
Paul M. Rivard has extensive experience in counseling in intellectual property matters and in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical arts. His practice focuses on developing and managing worldwide patent portfolios with a view toward meeting his clients’ business objectives. Representative technologies include plastics and polymer chemistry, molding and coating technologies, chemical manufacturing, packaging materials, pharmaceuticals, ceramics, and agricultural sciences. Some of his accomplishments include: - Successfully representing clients in ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and patent interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- Successfully representing clients in intellectual property litigation before the U.S. District Courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Authoring briefs of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including KSR v. Teleflex
- Presently serving on the Amicus Committee of the ABA, IP Law Section and as a member of the Committee for Patent System Policy Planning
- Serving as Co-chair of the DC Bar, IP Law Section from 2003-2004 and as a steering committee member from 2001-2004
Paul is also active in the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Rivard served as a Patent Examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined hundreds of applications in the chemical arts. Paul earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Catholic University in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
Mr. Rivard practices in the Washington, DC office of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
