Professionals

Richard H. Anderson’s experience encompasses more than 35 years in the field of intellectual property law, primarily in the chemical and chemical engineering fields. His practice includes preparing and prosecuting patent applications and trademark applications, and handling trademark oppositions and cancellation proceedings as well as preparing domestic and international patent and trademark licensing agreements. He also has prepared numerous infringement opinions in virtually all of the above areas.

His work in the chemical arts has proven to be particularly efficient by his practice of scheduling personal interviews with the assistant examiners, often first office action.  Mr. Anderson has conducted over 500 personal interviews with U.S. patent examiners in the following technologies:

• Resin binders, ion exchange resins, plasticizers, and water absorbent polymers
• Synthetic blood, drug delivery compositions, and polymeric membranes
• Oil-well drilling fluids, PCB and dioxin removal, and gas dehydration
• Man-made boards and hair-care formulations
• Waste-water and sewage treatment, and heavy metal removal
• Anaerobic sealants, radioactive isotope removal, rubber additives, foundry compositions, distillation and heat transfer, and explosive compositions
• Separation of protein concentrates from foliage, soil stabilization, and capacitors
• Inorganic resins, and glucose and cholesterol diagnostics
• Refractory compositions, gaskets, lubricating compositions, and cement compositions

Mr. Anderson joined Marshall, Gerstein & Borun after 17 years as a partner with another Chicago patent law firm.  While completing law school, he was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, responsible for various chemical arts, including paper making, foods, glass manufacturing, polymers, and mass transfer methods and apparatus.

Mr. Anderson received his J.D., with honors, from George Washington University (Delta Theta Phi) in 1972, and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky (Phi Kappa Phi, Omega Chi Epsilon) in 1968.  

Mr. Anderson holds membership in numerous legal organizations including the American Bar Association and the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. He is also a member of the bars of the state of Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, the Seventh Circuit, and the Northern District of Illinois. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.