Areas of Practice: Patents (Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Mechanical and Design), Technology Transfer, Licensing, Trade Secret Rights.

Mr. Allen has more than 40 years of experience as an intellectual property attorney, primarily in the patent, trade secret and technology transfer areas, in both corporate and private practice. He specializes in patent preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-market assessments and technology-based agreement preparation and counseling, and has advised clients on IP-related matters involving the United States, Europe and Japan.

Mr. Allen practices primarily in the chemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical and design arts. His technical areas of IP experience and focus include those relating to a wide variety of consumer products, beauty care technology, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and health care products; manufacture of chemical and petroleum products; catalysis; polymer chemistry and technology; biotechnology (enzymes); food and agricultural products; and paper, textile and non-woven chemistry and technology

Legal History: Senior Counsel, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio and Brussels, Belgium; Senior Patent Attorney, Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia; Associate, Bernard & Brown, P.C., Washington, D.C.

Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (J.D., 1970); Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Terre Haute, Indiana (B.S. Chem. Eng., 1967).

Admitted: Virginia, District of Columbia, Ohio, United States Patent and Trademark Office.