VERNON C. MAINE, ESQ.
Vern Maine & Associates, Registered Patent Attorneys
100 Main Street - Suite 2, PO Box 3445, Nashua NH 03061
603-886-6100, fax 603-886-4796

email Vern@VernMaine.com, website http://www.VernMaine.com

RESUME IN BRIEF

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY with 15 years prior experience in marketing and sales of technical products to military, industrial, aerospace, and commercial customers across diverse industries in international markets.

• Founder and managing partner of the firm. Registered to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Founded the practice in 1993, providing legal counseling, services and seminars on intellectual property and business law, including U.S. provisional, utility, and design patents, PCT patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, infringement, contracts, and related business matters.
• 15 years pre-law experience in engineering, marketing and sales. Sales of $20 million of avionics to U.S. and international aircraft manufacturers and airlines. Developed Asia-Pacific markets for night vision devices. Managed U.S. manufacturers' representatives during a 300% increase in sales of handheld computer terminals. Supervised installations, training, and production change-overs from lead stereo plates to photopolymer printing plate systems for letterpress printing operations. Business travel to 20+ countries.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH: Juris Doctor, 1993
Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, MA Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1972

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vern Maine & Associates, Nashua, NH 1993-Present

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY & BUSINESS COUNSELOR - Managing partner, founded practice in 1993. Provide individual and corporate clients with counseling on intellectual property law and related business issues including patent, trademark and copyright law. Provide infringement and validity opinions. Conduct client and public seminars on intellectual property. Former guest lecturer at University of New Hampshire, and adjunct professor at Rivier College, Nashua, NH.

Kollsman Corporation, Merrimack, NH 1984-1990

• PRODUCT LINE SPECIALIST - Commercial aircraft instruments. Participated in planning, forecasts, field sales coordination, technical liaison, FAA technical standards review, proposals, negotiations, contracts, domestic and international tradeshows. Extensive travel, customer contact. Major achievements: $4.4 million contract from Delta Airlines, $2.4 million contract from U.S. Airways, $2 million annual sales from British Aerospace.

Baird Corporation, Bedford, MA 1983-1984

• SALES MANAGER - Asia/Pacific Region. Electro-optical night vision product line based on image-intensifier technology. Extensive travel. Revitalized sales network and revived corporate image in region. Obtained first order for use in Hong Kong. Developed $2 million program potential in Thailand and Indonesia. Positioned company for $5 million bid on Korean tank program. Initiated sales efforts in Japan & Australia. Developed strategy/materials for aviation market.

Termiflex Corporation, WPI Group, Merrimack, NH 1980-1983

• SALES MANAGER, Handheld computer terminal manufacturer. Military, aerospace and industrial applications with customers such as Lockheed/Sanders, General Foods, Digital Equipment Corporation, Volkswagen, Raytheon, RCA and Hughes Aircraft. Managed sales staff and domestic network of sales representatives. Extensive travel. Annual sales increased from $1 million to $4 million during period. Major achievement: 200 control/display unit contract for factory on-line monitoring system at West Bend.

W.R. Grace & Co., Lexington, MA 1977-1980

• REGIONAL SUPERVISOR and sales representative for Letterflex unit of Polyfibron Division. Supervised installation, training, start-up and production change-over to shallow-relief photopolymer printing plate systems in letterpress operations at newspapers and commercial printers, including Boston Herald American and Indianapolis Star/News.

OTHER

• Aircraft Owner/Pilot, Comm./Inst. SEL Airplane, Pvt. Helicopter, former flight instructor. 1978-present
• U.S. Army, Army Reserve - Fort Dix, Fort Devens, Japan, Vietnam, Honduras. Army Commendation Medal. 1965-1968+
• Building contractor, residential, agriculture, and Vermont Log Homes 1972-1976