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JEFFREY T. SPANGLER

1011 ARLINGTON BLVD. #925

ARLINGTON, VA 22209-2209-25
PHONE 703-209-0880

EMAIL JTS273@ALUMNI.LEHIGH.EDU
WEB HTTP://JEFFREYSPANGLER.COM

PROFILE

Intellectual property experience, including domestic and foreign patent prosecution of applications in the mechanical, chemical and biotechnology arts. Trademark prosecution and monitoring for opposition or cancellation.

Complex litigation experience, including pharmaceutical patent infringement litigation, managing patent issues in a civil RICO jury trial, shareholders' derivative claims involving nuclear power plants, Exxon Valdez class action, and government software contract claims arbitration.

EDUCATION

B.A. in Biology, 1973, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
J.D., 1978, The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

BAR ADMISSIONS

Patent Agent, Reg. No. 38,316, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

REFERENCES

Jane Weir, IP Specialist
Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.
2200 Clarendon Boulevard #1400
Arlington, VA 22201-3331
301-467-8194, pct.togo@comcast.net

Carolyn V. Lewis, CLM
Kramer Amado P.C.
1725 Duke Street #240
Alexandria, VA 22314-3472
703-519-9801, CLewis@krameramado.com

Allen H. Fried, Ph.D.
Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.
1635 Market Street #1200
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2212
215-567-2010 x178, AHFried@crbcp.com

Donald B. Lewis
Attorney at Law
5 Cynwyd Road
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-3306
610-668-0331, MorrisLewisLaw@aol.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LITMAN LAW OFFICES, Arlington, VA, July to November 2008. Registered Patent Agent with a national IP practice focused on small entities and independent inventors. Direct hire by Richard Litman, President. Seeking work since reduction-in-force.

DUANE MORRIS, Washington, DC, June to July 2007 through Robert Half Legal, Ronald Allen, Account Executive; and November to December 2007 as independent contractor. Temporary IP paralegal for mostly domestic and some foreign patent prosecution, including electronic filing of utility applications, responses to Office Actions, Information Disclosure Statements (IDSs), assignments, issuance and post-issuance matters. Carolyn Lewis, Office Manager and Mark Comtois, shareholder.

DICKINSON WRIGHT, Washington, DC, February to April 2007 through Robert Half Legal, Ronald Allen, Account Executive. Temporary foreign trademark and domain name paralegal dealing with foreign associate forms for acquisition and maintenance of worldwide portfolio of marks. Updated database of domain names. Nicole Meyer, shareholder.

KENYON & KENYON, Washington, DC, September 2006 to January 2007 through Robert Half Legal, Ronnie Huggins, Account Executive; Josephine Hardy, Paralegal Supervisor. Temporary patent prosecution paralegal. Organized intake of new client portfolios, assisted in technology transfers, prepared Information Disclosure Statements for worldwide patent families in biotechnology applications. Gary Morris, Partner, now at Townsend, and Teresa Lavenue.

[Period from December 2004 through August 2006 spent caring for parents during final illnesses in Pennsylvania and acting as Executor of their estate.]

HUNTON & WILLIAMS, Washington, DC, October and November 2004 through Klein Landau & Romm, Kelly Fratino, Account Executive. Document review for client in response to a grand jury investigation. Christina Benson, Partner.

SIDLEY AUSTIN BROWN & WOOD, Washington, DC, and June to July 2004 through Hudson Global resources, Yvonne Ruhland, Placement Specialist. Contract attorney in Avandia® pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman patent litigation reviewing and analyzing documents. Paul Hemmersbaugh, Partner.

CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON, Washington, DC, April to June 2004 through LawCorps, Alexandra Billeb, Account Executive. Temporary contract attorney in antitrust cases involving Air Liquide/Messer and Oracle/PeopleSoft reviewing and analyzing documents in a Hart-Scott-Rodino second request review with one of the largest temporary attorney teams ever assembled by the firm. Sean Corey, Associate.

WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY, August to November 2003 through LawCorps, Anette Andersson, Account Executive. Contract attorney in Viagra® pharmaceutical patent litigation reviewing and analyzing documents. Bruce Genderson, Partner.

DUANE MORRIS, Philadelphia, PA, December 1999 to March 2000 through Interim Personnel, Stacy Beck, Account Executive. Temporary IP paralegal. Sent reminders and prepared documents for payment of maintenance fees and annuities in domestic and foreign patent practice. Drafted U.S. trademark applications and renewals. Maintained files and assured accuracy of docketing data. Performed online trademark searches for word and graphic marks. Lewis Gould and William Murray, Partners and Co-chairs of Intellectual Property.

PATENT ATTORNEY and Contract Counsel, Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr, PA, 1997-2002. Patent counseling, prosecution and licensing for independent inventors. Consultation as contract counsel on nuclear power plant derivative cases and Prudential Life sales practices settlement, class actions and complex commercial litigation. Referrals of Internet and trade secret cases.

GREENFIELD & RIFKIN LLP and RIFKIN & ASSOCIATES LLC, Ardmore and Paoli, PA, November 1995 to March 1996, and February to April 1999. Contract attorney in derivative action against PSEG Group arising from management of poor performance of Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants. Mark Rifkin is at Wolf Haldenstein in NYC.

STUART E. BECK, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, June to October 1997. Part-time patent associate position with a sole practitioner conducting domestic patent and trademark prosecution, and managing foreign patent firms for a telecommunications client. Monitored clients' marks for potential oppositions or cancellations. Drafted patentability and registrability opinions. Supervised foreign patent counsel in international prosecution of patents for U.S. clients. Prepared drafts of utility patent applications for mechanical inventions. Reviewed Official Gazette weekly publication of marks against list of clients' marks and identify any likelihood of confusion for opposition or cancellation; prepared notices of opposition and related papers. Drafted cease and desist letters to alleged patent infringers.

ALLAN H. FRIED & ASSOCIATES, Philadelphia, April 1996 to May 1997. Patent Associate for by a Ph.D. molecular biophysicist patent attorney in all phases of domestic and foreign patent prosecution concentrated in biotechnology, with some trademark practice. Responsible for docket control as well as a full range of administrative functions in a practice serving a major medical school and small biotechnology companies. Assisted in drafting U.S. biochemical patent applications in compliance with CFR and MPEP. Drafted provisional mechanical patent applications. Constructed sequence listings for DNA and protein inventions. Compiled Information Disclosure Statements (IDSs). Maintained docketing system and sent reminders.

SOLE PRACTITIONER, Philadelphia, PA, 1993-1997. Admission to Patent and Trademark Office in 1994, study of intellectual property law and representation of independent inventors. Consultation on derivative actions arising from poorly performing nuclear power plants. Arbitration of military contract claims in software development for centrifugal flight trainer, and preparation of claims against the government. Enforcement of noncompetition agreement for multimedia computer video consultant.

THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA, Patent and Trademark Depository volunteer, 1994 to 1996. Assisted patrons with patent and trademark search techniques, using printed and microform reference materials as well as online and CD-based databases. Assisted Patent Librarian with IP seminar programs for public.

GREENFIELD & CHIMICLES, Haverford, PA, Associate, 1989 to 1992. Wide variety of national securities, consumer and environmental litigation. Specialized in derivative claims involving construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Managed and analyzed large documentary records to prepare partners and second-chair depositions. Selected and worked with engineering experts. Assisted with complaints, disputed discovery from NRC, trial preparation and settlement briefs. Significant cases: Exxon Valdez oil spill, Drexel Burnham Lambert bankruptcy, Perrier benzene contamination. E.F. Hutton check-kiting and collapse, Hanford Reservation class action, and nuclear power plants at Diablo Canyon, Peach Bottom, Comanche Peak and Nine Mile Point.

ROBERT G. WELCH, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Associate, 1987 to 1989. Small commercial practice serving professionals and entrepreneurs. Concentrated on preparation and jury trial of a civil racketeering claim over development of municipal waste disposal technology by coordinating with patent counsel, deposing opponent's patent counsel and working with patent and valuation experts. Conducted commercial litigation associated with acquisition, redevelopment, syndication and management of historic real estate tax shelters, including successfully settled lender liability counterclaim.

EXEMPLARS OF MY WORK. Patents I have personally written are at www.uspto.gov, numbers 5,673,643 (Poppa) and 6,108,911 (Hoch). My work as a newsletter editor for the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association (PIPLA) is online at www.pipla.org under the News button.

TRIAL AND COMPLEX LITIGATION EXPERIENCE

1. Civil RICO summary jury trial and jury trial, 1 day and 2 weeks, early 1988, U.S.D.C. E.D. Pa. in Philadelphia before Judge Norma Shapiro. As in-house counsel for Kem-Solv, an environmental technology venture, coordinated litigation against technical consultants and investment banker D.H. Blair. Retained trial counsel Alexander Kerr, maintained liaison with outside counsel who filed case Thomas McBride, hired and worked with patent expert Lewis Gould, deposed opposing patent counsel, analyzed documents and constructed chronology, drafted motions in limine, prepared direct exam of opposing patent expert, and continued role through appeal to Third Circuit.

2. Shareholders' derivative action against directors and officers of Philadelphia Electric Company (PECo), arising from NRC shutdown of Peach Bottom nuclear plant, settled while preparing for bench trial in Philadelphia Common Pleas, 1990-91. As associate at Greenfield & Chimicles, a member of the plaintiffs' executive committee with Berger & Montague and Donald Lewis, participated in extensive document review and analysis, selected and managed exhibits for aggressive program of second-chaired depositions by committee, and worked on trial brief as parties tried unsuccessfully to settle this and other related cases, ultimately resolved after intensive alternative dispute resolution intervention of retired federal judge with executives of PECo and PSE&G.

3. Exxon Valdez class actions for plaintiffs against Exxon, Exxon Shipping and Alyeska Corporation, before Judge Holland, U.S.D.C. D. Alaska, 1991-92. As associate and contractor for Greenfield & Chimicles, spent a year and a half attending virtually all document productions in Anchorage, Houston, Washington and elsewhere, then assisted lead counsel Dickstein Shapiro on second and subsequent document reviews, and worked with trial counsel Brian O'Neill.

4. Shareholders' derivative action against directors and officers of PSEG, arising from poor performance of Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants, 1995-99, New Jersey Superior Court. Worked on complaint, discovery, depositions and summary judgment motion with Richard Greenfield, Don Lewis and Mark Rifkin, but case was never tried after court granted summary judgment for PSEG. Since my first project with Greenfield in 1989 on the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, I have developed specialized knowledge of nuclear power.

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RIVER PLACE – A ROSSLYN LANDMARK
By Jeffrey T. Spangler

If real estate is all about "location, location, location", then River Place is a truly unique space on the Potomac. In these four cooperatives, you can wake up to a view of the Mall and downtown Washington, then pass the Iwo Jima Marine Corps Memorial on the way to your car, all in the shadow of the curvaceous twin Westview towers which dominate the District of Columbia's skyline.

Originally named Arlington Towers, these apartments were part of the postwar buildup of the early 1950s, and became home to many military personnel serving at the recently built Pentagon, but with no place to live nearby unless they were the generals and colonels who lived at Fort Myer. The site was literally at the end of the line– next to the turnaround for the trolley line from the District– four lone towers amid a tawdry mix of pawn shops and gas stations.

River Place now has 1720 residential units in four ten to twelve-story brick buildings which were converted to four cooperatives in the early 1980s. It is home for a richly diverse and cosmopolitan residential community in the heart of Rosslyn, together with a number of small businesses.

College students and working singles are a large proportion of River Place residents, but it is also a family-friendly community. Children attend the excellent Arlington County public schools as well as some private schools. However, the high proportion of efficiency units limits the number and size of families.

To serve the residents' needs onsite, there is a convenience store, a hairdressing salon, a laundry and dry-cleaner, a fitness and entertainment center, a swimming pool and a children's playground. The entire Ukrainian embassy staff lives here, and a consortium of Lutheran colleges maintains a Washington Semester campus complete with housing for student interns.

The Towers were a "first" in many respects: the first and largest air-conditioned multistory apartments in the country, with rush hour bus service every four minutes, and the largest shopping center within an apartment development, including the largest drugstore in the Washington metropolitan area. These Towers were also the first buildings to rise above the trees on Washington's western skyline, advertised as the "Portal to Gracious Living" across the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

Arlington Towers were touted as "luxurious living unheard of less than a decade ago, within the budget of everyone." This "imposing $25,000,000 apartment project" originally had 1684 units and "a modern shopping center on the premises, even including a gas station."

Between half and three-quarters of the units were efficiencies which rented for $80 per month, with one-bedrooms for $102.50 and one of 60 spacious penthouses for $215. Today, $80 will cover the monthly rent for an outdoor parking space, and units sell from $135,000 for efficiencies to $435,000 for the penthouses.

This landmark development became the home of "swinging singles" who dined at restaurants on the premises and danced on the outdoor terrace with the Mall as a backdrop. In the mid 1980s, River Place studio apartments were promoted as "the perfect housing for Washington's single professionals ["Yuppies"] who want it all– luxury, value, amenities, views and a great close-in location."

River Place is built on over thirteen acres of land which is owned by an estate and leased to the River Place Owners Association. The "OA" is the overall governing organization composed of representatives from the Boards of Directors of the four cooperative housing corporations which own the North, East, South and West buildings. The percentage of owner-occupants has risen from an investor-dominated low of 8% to a current level of 20-25%.

Redevelopment proposals for River Place have included the recent competition for the Montreal Expos baseball franchise, in which River Place was perhaps the most challenging option among several other sites. In 2003 it was an alternative site for a convention center now set for Pentagon City. In 1993 the coop owners rejected an offer of $64 million for each building from Lincoln Properties of Texas. Arlington County planners also rejected a hotel plan from Leona Helmsley, the "Queen of Mean" from New York City.

A challenge to redevelopment is opposition by the unit owners, who were solidly against the baseball proposal, as were some adjoining property owners in Rosslyn. The principal concern of owners is receiving fair market value for their interests, and owner-occupants are reluctant to give up their prime location on the Potomac. A vote of 80% of all owners is required for any major changes.

The River Place Owners Association has formed a Redevelopment Task Force to chart the future course for their landmark. In their view, the ideal approach would be a team consisting of the Estate, the Owners, an outside developer and a financial institution. Formulating any plan would require upfront costs of $1-2 million, either from very unpopular owner assessments or from other sources.

Before any redevelopment of River Place, there needs to be a team, a plan, acceptance by the Owners and some deep pockets to proceed. Until those things are in place, River Place will continue to be what it has always been– a great place to live in the heart of the nation's capital.

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Jeff Spangler is a Pennsylvania native who has worked in Washington and enjoyed River Place apartments since October 2003. He gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the people who provided information for this story. Copyright is donated to the public.

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