Howard Rockman Esq
Howard Rockman, Esq.
Mr. Rockman’s distinguished legal career spans many areas of Intellectual Property and Patent Law. It addition to working in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a patent examiner, teaching as a Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School, Mr. Rockman is highly regarded in the technology community as the author of the seminal work: Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists (John Wiley & Sons/IEEE).
As a legal practitioner, Mr. Rockman has prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications in the electrical and mechanical arts and trademark applications, as well as written many trademark and patent opinions and briefs. He has represented clients in all phases of litigation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets in Federal and State courts. Mr. Rockman’s unique insights gained while an examiner at the USPTO has been an asset over his IP career that spans many decades.
He is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), an Adjunct Professor of Law and of Engineering, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Mr. Rockman is a member of the National Engineering Honor Society (Tau Beta Pi) and the Mechanical Engineering National Honor Society (Pi Tau Sigma). He is a former active duty and reserve officer in the US Army, Corps of Engineers and JAG Corps.
Mr. Rockman obtained a BSME from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) and is a graduate of George Washington University Law School (with honors, Wash., D.C). He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the States of Illinois and Maryland.