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VERNON C. MAINE, ESQ.
Vern Maine & Associates, Registered Patent Attorneys
547 Amherst Street, 3rd Floor -
Nashua, NH 03063-4000
603-886-6100, fax 603-886-4796
Email: Vern@VernMaine.com Website http://www.VernMaine.com
RÉSUMÉ 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 member 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
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