Robert S Katz

Principal shareholder, Banner Witcoff

Robert S Katz, a shareholder in Banner Witcoff’s Washington DC office, helps the world’s most innovative companies protect themselves in a highly competitive marketplace. He has helped procure more than 8,000 design patents in the United States. A former USPTO utility patent examiner, he has a mechanical engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from George Washington University School of Law. He is a professor of design law at George Washington University School of Law, and serves as chair of INTA’s Designs Committee, vice president of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys’ (FICPI) US section and as a liaison to FICPI for the American Bar Association section of IP law.

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