David Reed
David Reed
Cincinnati, OH 45245
USA
T. David Reed worked for The Procter and Gamble Company for almost forty years, the later half of which were spent managing P&G's foreign patent filing and prosecution effort. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Reed joined The Procter & Gamble Company in 1966 following graduation from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a B.S in Chemical Engineering. His initial assignments for P&G were in research and development, working on the teams that developed new products and product improvements for the company. His introduction to the legal field came in 1980 when he was placed on special assignment as the technical advisor to outside counsel in relation to a number of product liability lawsuits and eventually several patent litigations. Mr. Reed was formally transferred to the Patent Division (now the IP Division) in 1987, became registered before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Agent in 1988, and joined the section responsible for international patent filing and prosecution. A short time later, he was promoted to manage the foreign filing and prosecution effort with responsibility for filing and prosecution in Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific regions. During his tenure as manager of P&G's foreign filing operations, he studied and practiced under individual national patent laws in many nations and gained a tremendous amount of experience in the provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Over the course of managing the preparation, filing, and national/regional phase entry of over 8,000 PCT applications, Mr. Reed utilized all of the available features of the PCT and probably stumbled into and successfully managed his way out of every problem issue that exists under the PCT and most foreign patent laws. Because of this experience, Mr. Reed has been privileged to speak on P&G's foreign patent practice, with concentration on its PCT practice for organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the Licensing Executives Society (LES), plus a host of individual regional patent/IP law associations. Mr. Reed teaches the
Comprehensive PCT Practice course for Patent Resources Group.
Publications:
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Basic Patent Cooperation Treaty Practice,
1 volume,
Patent Resources Group,
2006
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Advanced Patent Cooperation Treaty Practice,
1 volume,
Patent Resources Group,
2006