About
With 47 years of varied experience as a practicing attorney, he is also a widely published author on technology and the law. He was a pioneer in developing a legal practice relating to biotechnology, as well as one of the first attorneys to work with computers and online information technology. He has been listed in the SuperLawyers Pennsylvania directory as an Intellectual Property practitioner since 2012, and has been accorded the highest rating, AV Preeminent, in the peer-reviewed Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and 10.0/10 Superb on Avvo.com.
As a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he conducted litigation on behalf of the Commonwealth, primarily involving antitrust or utility regulation. Later, as trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, he participated in civil and criminal investigations and complex litigation, including a trial of 5 pharmaceutical companies accused of fraud on the U.S. Patent Office.
He returned to private practice in 1982. At the beginning of that year, Gerry founded the legal journal Biotechnology Law Report along with publisher Mary Ann Liebert and continues to serve as its Founding Editor.
Since the early days of 1982, Gerry has been an avid advocate of computer-mediated communication, now of course ubiquitous. Via computer, he has taught intellectual property management on the University of Phoenix online campus. From 1994 to 1999 he served as the sysop for intellectual property/legal matters in the Ideas, Inventions & Innovations Forum, on CompuServe.
Gerry is the webmaster of the the Stanford Club of Philadelphia. In 2013 he was honored for his longstanding service to Stanford University by election to membership in Stanford Associates.
As an attorney practicing in intellectual property law, he has served his local colleagues by participating on the board of directors of both the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association and the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court.
Expertise: patents, trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property, antitrust, Internet law, cyberlaw, biotechnology law, computer law, dispute resolution, expert witness, intellectual property, cybersecurity, cyber war, mediation, intellectual property arbitration
Work history
President
Elman Technology Law, P.C.
12 Veterans Square, Media, PA 19063, U.S.A.
www.elman.com +1-610-892-9942
October 1988 – Present
Our motto: STRATEGIC LAWYERING. CULTIVATING INNOVATION.
And at Elman Technology Law: SCIENCE FICTION MEETS LEGAL VISION
Outside Patent and Trademark Counsel
Quick-Med Technologies, Inc.
August 2004 – Present
Manage strategy for intellectual property portfolio and provide legal support for technology licensing program.
Founding Editor
Biotechnology Law Report
January 1982 – Present
For 32 years, supervised publication by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., of this journal for lawyers and regulatory affairs professionals on issues relating to biotechnology.
Faculty Member
University of Phoenix Online Campus
May 1994 – July 1996
Taught the first online courses on Intellectual Property Management at the University of Phoenix Online.
U.S. Department of Justice
Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, Philadelphia
October 1976 – September 1982
Participated in antitrust litigation for the federal government including trial of companies accused of conspiracy to enforce an allegedly fraudulently obtained drug patent; participated in grand jury investigations of possible antitrust violations; performed pre-merger investigations under Hart-Scott Rodino Act.
Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Deputy Attorney General
October 1972 – October 1976
Chief of Antitrust Unit and member of Litigation Section of Penna. Dept. of Justice. State Public Utility Commission regulatory proceedings; civil antitrust litigation in federal courts; investigation of anticompetitive behavior in gasoline industry. Successfully defended Governor in state court proceedings from trial level to Supreme Court appeal.
Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia
Patent and Trademark Attorney
October 1968 – October 1972
Preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications; generation of license agreements; and general intellectual property advice for health products and enzymes groups and MicroMedic Systems joint venture with Battelle. Rohm and Haas is now part of Dow Chemical.
Education and qualifications
Columbia University School of Law
J.D., Law
1964 – 1967
Research assistant to Prof. Harlan Blake for Blake & Pitofsky casebook on antitrust law.
Activities and Societies: Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia Law School News
Stanford University
M.S., Chemistry
1963 – 1964
Generated computer programs in Algol at the "Stanford Computation Center" the year the first computers with integrated circuits were unveiled. Teaching assistant in chemistry. Thesis on digital computer analysis of spectrophotometric data under Prof. John Brauman in the lab of Prof. Carl Djerassi.
University of Chicago
S.B., Physical Sciences (Chemistry)
October 1959 – June 1963
Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management
1969 – 1972
Completed the core courses in business management.
Publications
Biotechnology Law Report, Founding Editor
Intellectual Property Protection chapter in Biotechnology Entrepreneurship (Academic Press 2014)
Computer Law Reporter, former member of advisory board
Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal, former member of advisory board
