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 has lectured on various chemical patent, patent litigation and intellectual property matters. He is a co-author of a chapter entitled Generic Drug-Approval Process Post 1984: Hatch Waxman Reform, in Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Process published in 2005, the Second Edition of which was published in December, 2008. He is also a co-author, along with Robert C. Sullivan and Peter Ludwig, of a two volume text entitled Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Patents: Law and Practice, December 2007, published in December, 2008.