Volpe and Koenig, P.C., an intellectual
property law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Pa., and Princeton, N.J., announced
that founding shareholder C. Frederick Koenig III will serve as a panelist at
the American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law (IPL) Section’s 28th
Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Arlington, Va., April 3 – 5,
2013, which will address the latest issues and developments in IP law.
Koenig will serve as a panelist on a joint
task force of American and Chinese lawyers from the ABA Sections on
International Law and IPL to discuss China’s proposed Legal Revisions, which
were filed by the ABA with China’s official agencies. The panel session, titled “China in the 21st
Century: New Laws Proposed on Copyright, Patent and Competition,” will address
how the new laws will impact American business, international trade, foreign
investment, IP parity and reciprocity under international conventions and
treaties, and what lawyers need to understand about these developments before
advising their corporate, institutional, financial and media clients.
Koenig currently serves on the Council of the
ABA IPL Section and has held a variety of positions within the section over the
past 30 years. He founded the China
State Intellectual Property Office/U.S. Bar Liaison Council on which he
represents the ABA IPL Section and currently serves as the chair. Koenig is also the current liaison from the
IPL Section to the ABA International Law Section and has participated in the
generation of joint comments of the sections on six different China law and
rule proposals over the last year.
Koenig has extensive experience in securing
and enforcing patents, trademarks and copyrights in a wide range of diverse
industries, both domestically and internationally. He earned his J.D. from Suffolk University
Law School, his M.A. in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University, and
his B.S. in mathematics, with honors, from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. Koenig is registered to
practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is a member
of the bar in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is admitted to the United States Supreme
Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth and Federal Circuits, and
the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.
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