McAndrews, Held & Malloy


	Richard Eugene Dick Of Counsel Email. rdick@mcandrews-ip.com Tel. (312) 775-8186 Education Illinois Institute of Technology, B.S.I.E., 1969 Loyola University of Chicago, Cum Laude, 1973 Bar Admissions Admitted to practice in Illinois. Member of the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professional Experience Richard has been practicing Intellectual Property Law for over 35 years and was a founding partner of the Law Offices of Dick & Harris (1982 – 2002). Over the years, Richard has had experience in every phase of patent, trademark, trade dress and copyright litigation across the United States. Richard has also been involved in several IP litigations in Europe. His cases have included a variety of areas, including: telecommunications, electronic learning toys for children, industrial machinery, automotive alloy wheels and other automotive accessory products, educational materials for the securities and insurance industries and computer hardware and software. His milestone cases include Video Technology Computers, Ltd. et. al. v. Apple Computer, Inc. (“Video Technology” is now known as “VTech”), which resulted in the first Apple compatable computer to be licensed by Apple and Molins PLC v. Textron Inc. et. al. in which Richard represented seven German machine tool manufactures and their U.S. subsidiaries, as defendants in a patent infringement litigation. The Molins decision has been sited in over 600 Court decisions and articles since the early 1990’s involving issues concerning inequitable conduct. Richard has been involved in several U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 matters, including proceedings regarding computer hardware and software, heavy machinery and novelty beverage glasses. In re Certain Novelty Glasses was the first ITC decision that excluded the importation products to the U.S. that were not protected by a Federally Registered Intellectual Property right (i.e. a U.S. Patent, a U.S. Trademark Registration or a Copyright Registration), but rather by Common Law Trade Dress rights. Richard has also counseled US and foreign clients in varied aspects of US and foreign intellectual property law, negotiations of technology acquisitions, development, licensing and transfer agreements, due diligence investigations, intellectual property audits, patentability infringement and avoidance opinions and the management of worldwide intellectual property for multinational corporations. Prior to law school, Richard worked for the Western Electric subsidiary of AT&T. His responsibilities included the review of production and quality processes involving the manufacture of telephone devices. Back to Top