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John J. Connors is a patent attorney with over 35 years of experience in the field, including a brief term as a Los Angeles assistant district attorney pro tempore. He has been employed as in-house patent counsel to the Standard Oil Company, the Brunswick Corporation and TRW, where he managed the patent and licensing department, and served on the Advanced Electronics Panel chaired by Simon Ramo and the Patent Committee for the Aerospace Industry Association.
In 1983, Mr. Connors founded Connors & Associatespc, a law firm dedicated to creating valuable property rights in the ideas of its clients in the most cost-effective way.
Mr. Connors has assisted inventors and entrepreneurs in commercializing their ideas, and believes that the knowledge he gained while serving as director of start-up companies is unique and unobtainable other than by hands-on experience. He shares this knowledge by consulting in connection with start-up business planning, stock offerings, operations management, and invention and technology licensing. Currently
Mr. Connors is a director of a successful medical device company, ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ ). He is the author of The Inventor's Bible for Protecting Your Million-Dollar Idea. He has also published a number of articles on patent and trademark law in Business to Business magazine, and he has lectured on intellectual property law and entrepreneurship at Pepperdine University, Saddleback College, and UCLA.
Mr. Connors holds a Juris Doctor degree from John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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