Drapkin Lounge, 3rd floor of Jerome L. Greene Hall, Columbia Law School
Come meet the Admissions staff and Barnard and Columbia alumni/ae attending Columbia Law.
Nkonye Iwerbon, Dean of Admissions will offer brief comments and welcome participants.
Refreshments will be served.
This event is open to Barnard, Columbia College, SEAS, and General Studies students applying to Columbia Law for 2009 admission.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Monica Avitsur by sending email to ma2685@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-8722.
Mr. Bomzer is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property
Department, in the New York office. Mr. Bomzer practices in the areas
of litigation, opinion writing, and prosecuting patent applications,
for domestic and foreign clients relating to inventions in the
mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, telecommunication, software,
and business method arts.
Prior to earning a J.D., from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Mr. Bomzer worked as a shock
analysis and structural dynamics engineer at the Electric Boat
Corporation, as a chemical process engineer with Pall Corporation, and
as a structural design engineer with the Ryder Truck Company in its
commercial car carrier division. Mr. Bomzer has taught engineering courses as an adjunct
professor for mechanical engineering departments at various New York
regional engineering schools, including Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the
New York Institute of Technology.
Mr. Dabney is a graduate of CornellLawSchool.After graduating from law school he clerked for
the Hon. James C. Hill, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in
Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Dabney is a partner in
Fried Frank's New York
office. Prior to joining Fried Frank,
Mr. Dabney was a partner in the New
York office of Pennie & Edmonds LLP between 1989
and 2003.
Mr. Dabney has acted as lead trial and appellate counsel in
numerous cases involving patents, trademarks and other intellectual property
rights.
Mr. Dabney represented KSR International Co. in both lower
courts and in arguing before the Supreme Court of the United States
in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 127 S. Ct. 1727 (2007).
Mr. Dabney is consistently recognized as a leading
individual by Chambers USA: America's
Leading Lawyers for Business in Intellectual Property: Patent and Intellectual
Property: Trademark and Copyright.
Thomas J. Meloro is a graduate
of GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter.He is partner in the Intellectual Property
and Litigation Departments of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr.
Meloro focuses on litigation and adversarial matters concerning patents,
trademarks, and trade secrets. His litigation experience has involved the
chemical and biotech industries with particular emphasis on pharmaceuticals,
medical products, polymers, immunoassays, agricultural chemicals, and food
chemistry.
Mr. Meloro's practice includes counseling on patent validity, enforceability
and infringement issues, as well as intellectual property licensing and other
transactional matters.
Mr. Meloro is an annual lecturer on antitrust law for FranklinPierceLawCenter's
Advanced Licensing Institute and contributes an annual updated chapter for
Aspen Publishing's Licensing Update.
Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Meloro was a partner at Kenyon
& Kenyon LLP.
