Faculty Profile

PLI Faculty Profile

John M. White

Director of Patent Professional Development
Practising Law Institute; Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC Bethesda, MD

Biography

John M. White began his career as a civil engineer with the Federal Highway Administration as a Field Engineer. Following 5 years as an engineer, he worked in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Examiner for automobile transmissions and control systems. Mr. White entered private practice in 1987, and started his own firm, Longacre & White, in 1988. In 1998, Mr. White merged his firm with the Liniak & Berenato firm, now the Berenato White & Stavish firm in Bethesda, MD.

He has more than 20 years experience in all aspect of intellectual property, including patent and trademark prosecution, litigation, infringement and validity analysis and opinion writing. Mr. White has served as an expert witness in numerous patent litigation matters and has also successfully argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Patent Office Board of Appeals and Interferences.

Mr. White is also a Law Professor. He regularly teaches "Regulatory and Statutory Fundamentals of Patent Law" at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and he has taught patent bar review courses since for several providers since 1988. In fact, Mr. White has taught over 40% of all practicing patent attorneys and agents how to successfully become admitted to the Patent Bar. In addition, he is the creator of and principle lecturer for the PLI Patent Bar Review Course. He also created the PLI course "How to Prosecute Patents" and annually teaches the PLI Prior Art & Obviousness course. Mr. White has also personally taught "Law and Evidence" to hundreds of US Patent Examiners at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), a required course for Patent Examiners seeking advancement to Partial Negotiation authority as Examiners.