John McCormack

Adjunct Instructor

John McCormack is of counsel with Kolisch Hartwell Dickinson McCormack & Heuser -- a Portland patent, trademark, and copyright law firm. McCormack received his B.S. 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. After graduation, he joined an intellectual property law firm in 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.