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On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, MacDonald Illig partner Jon Woodard served as a roundtable panelist at the Pathways to Employment in International Law program hosted by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law and the Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, PA. The program, held in Harrisburg, explored and contrasted the concepts of public and private international law. The program was also intended to introduce current law students to alternative paths for entering international law as a practice area.
Mr. Woodard is a Registered Patent Attorney and a member of MacDonald Illig's Intellectual Property Group. He focuses his practice on various areas of Intellectual Property (IP), including US and international IP. His practice has included extensive experience with international IP systems such as the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), Paris Convention (patents & designs), Berne Convention (copyrights), Madrid System (trademarks), European Patent Organization (EPO), the European OHIM (designs & trademarks), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and several foreign national IP & patent offices.
A graduate of Penn State-Dickinson, Mr. Woodard served as a Senior Editor of the Penn State International Law Review and was a recipient of Penn State's Richard Reeve Baxter Award for International Law and the Franklin Pierce Law Center's European Constitutional Law Award. Mr. Woodard's published works have appeared in the international law reviews at Penn State-Dickinson, Georgetown, and UNC Chapel Hill. He currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest PA Chapter of ASM International.