Tom Irving

Tom Irving is Senior Partner at the Marbury Law Group, after a 47-year career at the world-famous Finnegan firm. Tom practices U.S. patent law, including but not limited to patent law experting in district court litigations, due diligence, counseling, strategy, rendering opinions on inventorship and ownership, patentability, validity and freedom to operate, patent preparation and prosecution in the Chemical and Life Science arts and listing approved drug products and methods of treatment in FDA’s Orange Book.. Tom obtained his undergraduate B.A, degree in chemistry at the University of Utah in 1974. Tom received his law degree from The Duke University School of Law in 1977. Tom is entering his 50th year in the U.S. patent law business and in the very early years was mentored by P.J. Federico, who co-wrote the 1952 Patent Act with Judge Rich. Tom is a member of the District of Columbia bar and the bar of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to the practice of U.S. patent law, Tom enjoys teaching U.S. patent law for various State Bar Associations and Trade Associations, such as AIPLA, IPO, and ABA, posting prolifically on LinkedIn on U.S. patent law topics, teaching patent law webinars for Strafford, photographing nature, eating Garbanzo and Chorizo soup and Seafood Paella as often as possible, preferably at least twice a day, daily exercise, careful diet, attending and coaching from the stands the high school (and soon to be college) basketball, baseball, and softball games of the most athletically advanced of my 17 grandchildren, who range from 1 to 21 years old, and volunteering as a Sunday School teacher for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is almost as fun as teaching U.S. patent law.