MARC S. GROSS has specialized in patent prosecution, counseling, licensing and litigation, primarily in the chemical arts, for almost five decades. He was an Examiner in the United States Patent Office from 1955 to 1958 and a law clerk to a judge in the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals from 1958 to 1959.
He has represented parties before the Federal Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission in proceedings involving patent infringement issues regarding technologies ranging from tetracyclines and cephalosporin antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals to polymerization catalysts and processes and animal feed supplements.
Mr. Gross has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications, both in the United States and abroad.
He has also conducted intellectual property due diligence studies in connection with major corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Gross lectures frequently on various chemical patent, patent litigation and intellectual property due diligence matters at Practising Law Institute Seminars, Intellectual Property Seminar, Glasser Legal Works and other professional associations and meetings. He is also a co-author, along with Robert C. Sullivan, Jr., and S. Peter Ludwig, of a handbook entitled
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Patents: Law and Practice, published in December 2007.