List of patent attorneys and agents
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This is a list of notable patent attorneys and agents, including, in the section below, fictional patent attorneys.
- Alfred Ely Beach, (1826 – 1896), inventor of the New York City Subway
- Sharon Bowles, (born 1953), British MEP
- Chester Carlson (1906 - 1968)
- Yardley Chittick (born 1900)
- Dennis Crouch (born 1975)
- George Ticknor Curtis (1812 - 1894)
- Peter Detkin
- Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of Wizardry computer game
- G. Donald Harrison, (1889 - 1956), builder of music organs
- Paul Haughey, (born 1954)
- Irving Kayton, former law professor, author of Kayton on Patents
- Stephan Kinsella, (born 1965), Libertarian legal theorist.
- Paul Lerner, (born 1946), attorney, and author.
- Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to the Free Software Foundation
- Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, (born in 1964), winner of the main event at the 2004 World Series of Poker
- Giles Sutherland Rich (1904 - 1999)
- Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr., (1858 – 1942)
- Günter Wächtershäuser, origin of life theorist.
[edit] Fictional characters who are patent attorneys
- Calvin's father (in comics series Calvin and Hobbes - the father of Bill Watterson, the creator of this cartoon series, is a patent attorney)
- Oliver Farnsworth (from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth; also played by Buck Henry in the film adaptation, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
- Wally Mason (in the book Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories by Brian C. Coad)
- George Stobbart (from the Broken Sword adventure games)
- Harry Wykoff (in the television event series Wild Palms)
- Joe Nile, the patent attorney protagonist in the novel "Undue Diligence" by Paul Haughey.
- Eustis Miller is patent attorney in the TV series King of the Hill and father of Bobby's classmate Randy.
