Harold C. Wegner is a retired partner and intellectual property lawyer in the international law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, where he engaged in cutting edge domestic and international patent issues. Prof. Wegner focused upon appellate patent issues as well as reexamination and other complex matters at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Affiliations
Prof. Wegner is the former director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at the George Washington University Law School, where he had been a professor of law. He has been a visiting professor at Tokyo University and spent several years as a Mitarbeiter at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich followed by service as a Kenshuin at the Kyoto University Law Faculty.
Recognition
He was recognized among IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012-2016). In 2013, Prof. Wegner was recognized by the Washingtonian in their list of Washington’s Top Lawyers.
Education
Prof. Wegner holds degrees from Northwestern University (B.A.) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.). He started his career as a patent examiner. In 1980 he founded his own law firm; in 1994 he merged his practice into the Foley firm.