Joseph Scafetta, Jr.
OF COUNSEL
Joseph Scafetta, Jr. has several decades of experience in all aspects of intellectual property, with particular emphasis on patents. He served as a law clerk for the late Hon. Robert W. Hemphill in the U.S. District Court for South Carolina. Before joining this firm, he was with Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.; Cushman, Darby & Cushman; Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC; and others.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Aeronautic structures
Air conditioners
Aircraft testing devices
Automobiles & buses
Shock –attenuating surfaces
Cameras
Copper & steel rod casting machines
Electric power tools
Mechanical gear boxes
Microwave joining of ceramics
Nuclear power plants
Oil well drilling
Paper products & handling machinery
Smokestack pollution control devices
Textile manufacturing machinery
Textile weaving looms
Turbine engines
Wood working machines
EDUCATION
M.B.A. in Admin. of Science & Tech., George Washington University, with Honors
M. Pat. L, Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., University of Pittsburgh
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Scafetta is admitted for the general practice of law in the District of Columbia and has limited admission for the practice of patent, trademark and copyright law in Virginia. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society, and the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
PUBLICATIONS
Mr. Scafetta has many publications including “Ten Years After Aro II – Effect of Patent Act Section 271 on the Patent Misuse Doctrine”, Vol. 26, South Carolina Law Review, Feb. 1975, which won the prestigious Robert C. Watson Award from the American Patent Law Association. He also wrote a 110-page chapter on patent Law in a book entitled “Intellectual Property Law Primer” by Kintner & Lahr (Macmillan Co. 1974.) Mr. Scafetta is bilingual in English and Italian. He also reads Spanish and French.
CONTACT
Email: jscafetta@dcpatent.com
