Practice/Organization Description
Robert P. Cogan is a partner in the San Diego office of The Nath Law Group, an intellectual property law firm based in the Washington, DC. area. He is a legal and business advisor to a wide spectrum of clients including high tech, industrial, commercial and financial businesses, universities and individual entrepreneurs. His experience is in both corporate and private practice. As chief patent counsel for a Fortune 200 company, he advised operating managers in a wide variety of business situations. His technical training is in electrical engineering. This, as well as experience in management, makes him qualified to advise and counsel companies operating in today’s fast-paced environment.
Mr. Cogan’s extensive legal and business experience cover the following practice areas:
• Business strategy for exploitation of intellectual property, and Patent, Trademark and Copyright Portfolio Development;
• Software Licensing;
• Teaming Agreements, Contracts, Licensing, Acquisitions and Divestitures;
• Contracting with United States Government Agencies and Foreign Governments;
• Computer and Internet Hardware, Software and Systems;
• Medical Devices and Instrumentation, including FDA requirements; and
• Patent Enforcement Matters.
Prior to returning to private practice in 1997, Mr. Cogan was, during the 1980s and 1990s, chief patent counsel of EG&G, Inc, then a Fortune 200 company with diversified high technology operations on all seven continents. His prior experience also includes operational management in a medical devices company. Mr. Cogan began his patent career in the General Electric Company Patent Lawyer Development Program in Washington, DC in 1966.
He is a frequent speaker before numerous professional groups and a guest lecturer at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management. Topics include intellectual property business strategy, government contracting, technology transfer and licensing, high tech transactions and valuation of intellectual property. He recently presented a panel on Virtual Companies to the San Diego Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.
Bar Admissions
CA, DC. Inactive - MA, OH, TX
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a number of other federal courts
Education
Juris Doctor, George Washington University National Law Center, 1970
B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union in New York City, 1966
Professional Associations & Memberships
San Diego County Bar Association, Licensing Executives Society, San Diego Venture Group. He is a member of the Medical Technology Committee and the Legislative Committee of Biocom.
