Areas of Practice: Patents (Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Mechanical and Design), Technology Transfer, Licensing, Trade Secret Rights.

Mr. Allen has more than 38 years of experience as an intellectual property attorney, primarily in the patent, trade secret and technology transfer areas, in both corporate and private practice. Prior to joining Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C., Mr. Allen was in-house IP counsel at The Procter & Gamble Company, in Cincinnati, Ohio and Brussels, Belgium and at Mobil Oil Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia. Mr. Allen also practiced at the law firm of Bernard & Brown, P.C. in Washington, D.C. He specializes in patent preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-market assessments and technology-based agreement preparation and counseling, primarily in the chemical arts and has counseled clients on IP-related matters involving Europe and Japan.

Legal History: Senior Counsel, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio and Brussels, Belgium; Senior Patent Attorney, Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia; Associate, Bernard & Brown, P.C., Washington, D.C.

Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (J.D., 1970); Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Terre Haute, Indiana (B.S. Chem. Eng., 1967).

Admitted: Virginia, District of Columbia, Ohio, United States Patent and Trademark Office.