OGRP's Professional Staff News:

We are pleased to announce that John A. Caruso and Jerry L. Coon have become Of Counsel to the Firm. 

Mr. Caruso has extensive intellectual property experience as in-house counsel at pharmaceutical companies. His responsibilities have included patent application and prosecution matters, patent opinions, due diligence of patent portfolios in acquisitions, and numerous trade secret, license, clinical trial, and other agreements.

Mr. Coon also has extensive experience in corporate law departments as intellectual property counsel for chemical companies.  He has prepared and prosecuted worldwide patent portfolios involving diversified technologies, such as coatings, industrial gases, electronics, specialty chemicals and plastics, adhesives, emulsion polymers, silicones and urethane intermediates, molecular sieves, lubricants, ethylene oxide glycol/ethylene oxide derivatives, specialty polymers and composites, and agricultural chemicals.