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John R. Flanagan Since November 1984
1-9 employees
registered patent attorney
IP and patents / legal profession
For the past 23 years I have been engaged in a solo private practice of patent law. For 15 years prior to that I was a corporate patent attorney for 12 years and then a government patent attorney for 3 years immediately preceding the start of my private patent practice years. My career in the patent field spans 40 years so in my initial 2 years I was employed in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office as a patent examiner, on the opposite side of the table, so to speak, from where I have sat for the past 38 years.
To describe what has happened to the four corporations which I worked for from 1969-1981 is a commentary on what has happened in corporate America over the last 30 years.
The first corporation I worked for from 1969 to 1972 was American Can Company, a company who had long been a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but which in the 1980s was broken up, merged and otherwise transformed out of existence and into what I believe is now the Travelers or Citicorp entity.
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