| Mark R. Carter,
J.D., Ph.D.
Mark R.
Carter, J.D., Ph.D. has penned important patent, copyright, and
U.S. Indian law papers:
Copyright's Hand Abstractions Test for Patent's Section-101
Subject-Matter Eligibility, Santa Clara Computer & High
Tech. L.J. (forthcoming), available
at http://works.bepress.com/mark_r_carter_jd_phd/4,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2278745.
A Patent and Its Continuation as a Antitrust Tying Arrangement, 18 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 37 (2013), abstract available at http://works.bepress.com/mark_r_carter_jd_phd/2/. Applying the Fragmented Literal Similarity Test to Musical-Work and Sound-Recording Infringement: Correcting the Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films Legacy, 14 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 669 (2013), available at http://purl.umn.edu/155461. Congress' Encroachment on the President's Power in Indian Law and its Effect on Executive-Order Reservations, Seattle J. Soc. Justice (forthcoming), available at http://http://works.bepress.com/mark_r_carter_jd_phd/1/. Since the 1990's, Carter has belonged to the U. S. Patent Bar licensing him to act for inventors at U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He prosecuted patents and analyzed them for licensing and lawsuits. He practiced patent law at Morrison & Foerster, Novak Druce + Quigg, his own firm, and (Paul) Hickman & Beyer, and consulted on patent prosecution. His main patent fields were electric motors, digital circuits, software, and semiconductor packages. He also drew patent figures. Dr. Carter has stopped privately practicing. The Georgetown University Law Center granted Dr. Carter's J.D. He earned a perfect score on the famously hard LSAT Analytical Reasoning (Logic Games) test. His Georgetown studies stressed intellectual property (IP): patents, copyrights, trademarks, entertainment law (music, film, & TV contracts, publicity, privacy, basic accounting), IP legislation and lobbying, patent licensing, antitrust & IP, IP pre-trial litigation, and venture-capital startups. He wrote: memoranda, appellate and summary judgment briefs, cease & desist letters, pleadings, discovery requests, employment agreements, confidential disclosure agreements, and patent options/licenses. He was a judicial intern with the Hon. Pauline Newman at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. At the George Washington University School of Law, Dr. Carter studied Section 337 IP rights enforcement at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and patent appeals. Dr. Carter received IP awards while at Georgetown. The American Intellectual Property Education Foundation (AIPLEF) named him a Sidney B. Williams, Jr. IP Law Scholar three straight years. Georgetown awarded him its 2010 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Copyright Writing Award for a music copyright paper. Georgetown also awarded Dr. Carter its 2012 CALI Patent Licensing Excellence Award. Recently, Dr. Carter returned to the Federal Circuit for many months as Visiting Scholar associated with the Hon. Pauline Newman. Dr. Carter's Georgetown studies also included: constitutional law (separation of powers, rights, U.S. Indian law, antitrust, federal courts, constitutional torts); business law (corporations, law firms); administrative law; general litigation (conflict of laws, evidence, remedies, trial practice); and basic law (civil procedure, contracts, criminal procedure, property, torts, legal research and writing, professional responsibility, introduction to international law). Harvard University granted Dr. Carter's Physics and Mathematics A.B. (B.A.). The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named him a (Quaker Oats) National Achievement Scholar. He was taught by three Physics Nobel Laureates, two Heinemann Mathematical Physics Prize Winners, a Wolf Prize Winner in physics, and a National Science Medalist in mathematics. Stanford University granted his Theoretical Physics Ph.D. He wrote his thesis on quantum field theory while at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Physicists widely deemed his advisor and reader as two of the world’s very best theoretical physicists. The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute picked him for its Yale University summer school where he served as a science secretary. The Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice, Sicily also invited him to its International School for Subnuclear Physics and named him the James Chadwick Scholar in memory of the 1935 Nobel Laureate. After Stanford, the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories employed Dr. Carter as a software engineer, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer. He chiefly structured, wrote, and changed large-scale computer programs to solve electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. Thus, he fully knows about programming and numerical analysis. While on leave from Lockheed, Dr. Carter pursued theoretical physics as a University Fellow at the University of Maryland. A supergravity founder headed the group. Dr. Carter researched quantum field theory, gravity, chaos, and neural networks. Besides his legal, science, and engineering studies and work, Dr. Carter studied mathematical finance including equity, fixed-income, and commodity derivative-securities pricing. The Haas School of Business at the University of California issued him a certificate for its Fixed Income Securities (Bonds, Asset-Backed Securities, and Risk Management) part of the Berkeley Finance Series. Dr. Carter knows some Spanish, French, German, and Latin. Dr. Carter belonged to: the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (previously the Peninsula Intellectual Property Law Association), the American Intellectual Property Law Association, he Federal Circuit Bar Association, the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association. Comment on USPTO Claim and Continuation Proposals AB 93 & 94 via USPTO website |