Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Richard S. Stockton renders holistic intellectual property counseling, prosecution and litigation advice at the law firm of Banner Witcoff. Exemplary achievements include prosecuting hundreds of US utility patent applications and thousands of US design patent applications before >100 US Patent and Trademark Office examiners, and managing thousands of foreign counterparts in >100 jurisdictions and >140 countries. Richard earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then graduated from the UI College of Law cum laude, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of The University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, and a founder of Modern Trends in Intellectual Property. He has held leadership positions in the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law and has taught at the colleges of law at Northwestern University and Georgetown University.