Faculty > John McCormack

Adjunct Professor Contact Phone: (650) 325-8673 Email John McCormack Courses Patent Law and Policy Licensing of Intellectual Property & Other Information Assets

John M. McCormack is of counsel with Kolisch Hartwell Dickinson McCormack & Heuser, a Portland patent, trademark, and copyright law firm. He teaches patent law and policy and licensing of intellectual property.

He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University in 1967 and his J.D. in 1973 from the American University Law School in Washington, D.C. While attending law school, he worked as an examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He was a law review editor and received the American Jurisprudence Award.

After graduation, he joined an intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C. and worked there until 1976, when he joined Kolisch Hartwell. He has dedicated the major portion of his practice to trademark litigation and prosecution and assisting clients in obtaining patents in the mechanical arts. He is one of the few trademark attorneys ever to have argued before the United States Supreme Court, where he represented the respondent in Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park and Fly, Inc.