Alan J. Kasper Partner

Alan Kasper is the director of the firm's International Department.  Mr. Kasper's practice includes domestic and international patent law. He represents clients in litigation, renders opinions on patentability, validity and infringement and provides counseling on matters involving licensing, proprietary rights protection, contracting and export control. He advises clients engaged in electrical, semiconductor, network, software/computer-based and mechanical technologies and provides counsel on business method patents inventions. Mr. Kasper was the resident partner in the firm's Tokyo office (1990-1994). Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kasper served as an attorney and later as the Chief Patent Counsel for Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT).  Earlier, he was a Patent Examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals - District of Columbia, Federal Circuits
U.S. District Court - District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Dai-Ni Bar Association, Tokyo Japan (retired)

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.  )
State University of New York at Buffalo (B.S. Electronics Engineering )


Associations
American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association - President (2010); Board of Directors; past Chair, International and Foreign Law Committee; past Chair, Japan Practice Committee; past Chair PCT Issues Committee
AIPPI - Vice President of US Group
District of Columbia Bar Association
International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys
Intellectual Property Owners Association
Licensing Executives Society

Corporate America's Slow Boat to China (2006)
The Role Of Business Method Patents In Strategic Business Planning
Reissue And Reexamination Under The U.S. Patent Law
View Of The Parallel Imports Issue From An International Perspective
The New Code Of Civil Procedure In Japan
"A View to Tomorrow - Thru Practice Defining Changes in IP Law," Richard C. Sughrue Symposium (Mar. 2003)
Journal of Japan Group AIPPI - "The Role of Business Method Patents in Strategic Business Planning " (Nov 2000); "A View of the Parallel Imports Issue" (Jan 1999); "The New Civil Code in Japan" (Nov 1996); "New Patent Examination Guidelines in Japan" (1993-94); "How to Keep Your Company Out of Court," contributing editor (1984)

"The US Perspective and Comparisons with China", FICPI (June, 2011)
"AIPLA Update: Cost Savings for Users of PPH", ABA (Apr. 2011)
"The Supreme Court's Patent Docket", Sughrue Symposium (Mar. 2011)
"AIPLA Update: Cost Savings for Users of PPH", AIPLA in UK, France, Germany & Italy (Mar. 2011)
"Protection for Software Innovation", ASIPI (Feb. 2011)
"Cease and Desist Letters", AIPLA, Washington, D.C. (2007)
“Reissue and Ex Parte and Inter Partes Reexamination” AIPLA, Alexandria, VA (Aug. 2006)
“Sanctions and Punishment for IP Infringers”, Korean Patent Attorney Association, Seoul, Korea (Sept. 2006)
“Patents and Medical Treatment (patentability, limitations of effects, public impact, effects on production of patient specific drugs, etc.)”  AIPPI, Gottenburg, Sweden (Oct. 2006)
“Patentability and Enforcement of Computer Software and Business Method Patents”, Asian Patent Attorney Association, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Nov. 2006)
“ONR Application Format”, Industry Trilateral, Osaka, Japan (Nov. 2006)
"A Look Ahead: Thru Practice Defining Changes in IP Law" Akron Law Symposium (Mar. 2003) Akron Ohio
"Global Patent Strategies for High Tech Companies in the 21st Century." CSIR Seminar on IP Strategies (Jan 2003) New Dehli, India
"Inter-Partes Reexamination:  The Potentially Dramatic Impact of Recent US Legislation" AIPLA Annual Meeting (2002)
"Business Methods in Strategic Planning," AIPPI Symposium, Singapore (2000)
"Parallel Imports Under TRIPS," AIPPI Congress, Rio di Janiero (1998)
"R&D Strategies"; "Protecting Software Inventions"; "Means-Plus-Function Claim Limitations in the U.S." - Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan (1998, 99)
Litigation Strategies, Protecting e-Commerce Inventions - NGB Seminar, Tokyo (1998, 00)
JPAA (Tokyo) and KPAA (Seoul) Seminars on various aspects of U.S. IP Law
University of California at San Diego - Instructor, "Offensive and Defensive Strategies for High Tech Companies"; Instructor, "Patent Application Preparation and Claim Drafting"