Pub Editor

Patrick Allen Foster is the pseudonym of an attorney in East Tennessee.

Paul Alan Forsyth is a patent attorney with the law firm of Pitts & Lake, P.C., in Knoxville, Tennessee. The opinions expressed on this blog are his personal views and do not represent the opinions of his employer. He earned his B.S. in chemistry from Duke University in 2004 and his J.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2007. In law school, he was the Publication Editor (or “Pub Editor” for short) of the Tennessee Law Review.

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Whereas the State of Tennessee allows attorneys who are licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office to advertise that they are patent attorneys, the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization does not currently offer certification as a patent, trademark, copyright, and/or intellectual property law specialist. In Tennessee, certifications of specialization are presently available to attorneys only in the following areas of practice: Accounting Malpractice; Business Bankruptcy; Civil Trial; Consumer Bankruptcy; Creditor Rights; Criminal Trial; Elder Law; Estate Planning; Family Law; Legal Malpractice; and Medical Malpractice. Unless otherwise specifically stated, the authors and commenters here are not registered patent attorneys or certified as Specialists by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.

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