Frederick J.
Dorchak is a partner at Collard & Roe, where he specializes in
patent prosecution and litigation. Fred has over 25 years of experience
specializing in all phases of patent litigation and licensing. His
technical experience includes a wide variety of electrical and
mechanical devices and organic and inorganic chemistry, including
chemical products and processes on plastic films, single crystal
nickel-based alloys for jet engines, flue gas desulfurization processes,
agricultural pest chemicals and lubricating oil additives. His clients
range from individuals to large international corporations. He is on the
board of Directors of the International Intellectual Property Society
and a member of various bar associations including the New York Patent,
Trademark Law Association, the American Bar Association, the American
Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar
Association, the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, and the
Great Neck Lawyers’ Bar Association.
Bar Memberships
New York
U.S. Court of Appeals - Second and Federal Circuit
U.S. District Courts - Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of New
York and Eastern District of Wisconsin, District of Connecticut, and
District of Colorado
Registered to Practice before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Prior Experience
Fred worked at two prominent New York City intellectual property law
firms where he represented a number of multi-national clients. He was
part of the litigation team that successfully defended a multi-national
chemical company against an action brought by the United States
Department of Justice to cancel an extremely valuable agricultural
chemical patent. He participated in the trial of the Fonar v. General
Electric case involving magnetic resonance imaging.
Other Experience
Director, International Intellectual Property Society, 2005 - present
Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Committee of the Nassau County
Bar Association, 2001 - 2003
Chair of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association Committee on
Patent Law and Practice, 1998 - 1999
Author of the Licensing Law Section of the New York Intellectual
Property Law Association “Annual”, 1998 - 2003
Noted speaker on patent litigation issues for various bar association
Articles published in the “Attorney of Nassau” and the “Suffolk County
Bar Journal.”
Reported Cases
include
American National Can Co. v. Continental PET Technologies Inc. 37
U.S .P. Q. 2d 1793 (D. Conn.1995)
Max Planck Gesellschaft Zur Foederung Der Wissenschaften E.V. v.
General Electric Co., 858 F. Supp. 380, 32 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1152
(S.D.N.Y.1994)
United States of America v. FMC Corporation, 210 U.S.P.Q. 486
(E.D.Pa 1981)
Fred was on the Amicus Curiae Brief in Markman v Westview Instruments,
No. 95-26 before the United States Supreme Court and the Amicus Curiae
Brief for the American Bar Association in Hilton Davis Chemical Co v
Warner-Jenkinson Co., No. 93-1088 before the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Education
St. John’s University School of Law (J.D., 1979 cum laude) where he was
Editor of the St. John’s Law Review Survey of New York Practice.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (S.B., Chemistry, 1976)
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