List of patent attorneys and agents

This is a list of notable patent attorneys and agents, including, in the section below, fictional patent attorneys.

Alfred Ely Beach, (1826 – 1896), inventor of the New York City Subway
Sharon Bowles, (born 1953), British MEP
Chester Carlson (1906 - 1968)
Yardley Chittick (born 1900)
Dennis Crouch (born 1975)
George Ticknor Curtis (1812 - 1894)
George Alfred DePenning, inventor to whom the first Indian patent was granted in 1856, and who later became the first patent agent in India. ^[1] ^[2]
Peter Detkin
Richard Frenkel, once anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog
Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of Wizardry computer game
G. Donald Harrison, (1889 - 1956), builder of music organs
Paul Haughey, (born 1954)
Gerald D. Hosier, patent litigator, named highest-paid attorney by Forbes magazine in 2000
Irving Kayton, former law professor, author of Kayton on Patents
Stephan Kinsella, (born 1965), Libertarian legal theorist.
Howard T. Markey, (born 1921 - 2006), Chief Judge Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Chicago patent lawyer, major general Air Force Reserve, test pilot in World War II
Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to the Free Software Foundation
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, (born in 1964), winner of the main event at the 2004 World Series of Poker
Malcolm Royal, (1941 - 2006) Australian patent attorney and educator
Giles Sutherland Rich (1904 - 1999)
Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr., (1858 – 1942)
Günter Wächtershäuser, origin of life theorist.

[edit] Fictional characters who are patent attorneys

Calvin's father (in comics series Calvin and Hobbes - the father of Bill Watterson, the creator of this cartoon series, is a patent attorney)
Oliver Farnsworth (from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth; also played by Buck Henry in the film adaptation, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
Wally Mason (in the book Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories by Brian C. Coad)
George Stobbart (from the Broken Sword adventure games)
Harry Wykoff (in the television event series Wild Palms)
Joe Nile, the patent attorney protagonist in the novel "Undue Diligence" by Paul Haughey.
Eustis Miller is patent attorney in the TV series King of the Hill and father of Bobby's classmate Randy.
The character played by Adam Arkin in the TV miniseries "A Year in the Life"

^ DePenning & DePenning, History of DePenning & DePenning. Consulted on April 4, 2008.
^ T.V. Malavika, Intellectual property? Right!, The Hindu online, April 9, 2006. Consulted on April 4, 2008.