Gerald J. Mossinghoff

Gerald J.
Mossinghoff became a director in May 1998.
Mr. Mossinghoff is aformer Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents andTrademarks of the Department of Commerce (1981 to 1985) and served as Presidentof Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America from 1985 to 1996.
Since1997 he has been senior counsel to the law firm of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland,Maier and Newstadt of Arlington, Virginia.
Mr. Mossinghoff has been a visitingprofessor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University LawSchool since 1997 and Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University Schoolof Law since 1997.
Mr. Mossinghoff served as U.S.
Ambassador to the DiplomaticConference on the Revision of the Paris Convention from 1982 to 1985 and asChairman of the General Assembly of the United Nations World IntellectualProperty Organization from 1983 to 1985.
He is also a former Deputy GeneralCounsel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1976 to 1981).
Mr.Mossinghoff received an electrical engineering degree from St. Louis Universityin 1957 and a juris doctor degree with honors from the George Washington