Dorr, Carson & Birney, P.C.

Shareholders

W. SCOTT CARSON. Born Buffalo, New York, March 13, 1946; admitted to bar, 1974, Virginia and District of Columbia; 1974-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1977, Colorado and U.S. District Court of Colorado; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Brown University (B.S., 1969; A.B., 1969); George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1973). Examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1969-1974. Practice Areas: Patent and Trademark Law; Licensing Law. Email: ScottCarson@patnet.com


THOMAS S. BIRNEY. Born Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1954; admitted to the Colorado bar, 1980; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.M.E., 1977; M.S.M.E., 1977); Boston University (J.D., 1980). Tau Beta Pi; Pi Tau Sigma. Member: American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Patents, trademarks and copyrights. 
Email: TomBirney@patnet.com

Of Counsel

JACK C. SLOAN. Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1937; admitted to bar, 1972, Colorado and U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Carnegie Mellon University (B.S., Industrial Management, 1962); University of Denver (J.D., 1970; B.S., Chemistry, 1970). Member, Denver Law Journal, 1968 -1969. Patent Law Clerk, Marathon Oil Company Law Training Program, 1968-1970. Patent Attorney, Gates Rubber Company, 1970-1973. Member:  American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association. [Capt., U.S. Army Signal Corps.]. Languages: German. Practice Areas: Patents (Chemical and Mechanical).Email: JackSloan@patnet.com

Retired

ROBERT C. DORR. Mr. Dorr is no longer a shareholder of the firm which he founded. He is now retired from the firm and no longer practices law. He was born in Denver, Colorado, on January 7, 1946; admitted to bar, 1975, Colorado and U.S. District Court of Colorado, 1976; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His education was Milwaukee School of Engineering (B.S., 1968); Northwestern University (M.S., 1970); University of Denver (J.D., 1974). He served as: Douglas-Elbert County Bar Assoc. (President, 1982-1983) and Colorado Bar Assoc. (President - Patent, Trademark, Copyright Section, 1989). He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Sigma Xi.
 
The following patents list Mr. Dorr as sole inventor:  “Self-checking Combinational Logic Counter Circuit” U.S. Patent No. 3,699,322 (cited in 6 future patents); “Message Delivery for Appliances and Method Therefore” U.S. Patent No. 6,816,060; “Countdown On-line Auction Clock” U. S. Patent No. 6,910,019 (cited in 7 future patents) and “Audible Command Method for Handing Off Messages Between Two Appliances” U.S. Patent No. 7,834,740. 
 
Mr. Dorr has authored over 25 articles, chapters, publications and books in the legal and engineering fields.  He was co-author with Professor Chris Munch of “Protecting Trade Secrets, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks,” a book published in three editions over a decade by John Wiley & Sons and then by Aspen Law.
 
You may contact him personally at bob@ghvalley.com. For all legal inquiries or possible representation, please contact Scott Carson or Tom Birney.