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Areas of Practice
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Professional Background
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Court Admissions
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Bar Admissions
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Education
Areas of Practice
For more than 40 years, Mr. Yeager has focused his practice on intellectual property litigation throughout the United States. He has served as lead counsel in dozens of trials and appeals involving a wide array of technologies and businesses. For a decade, he taught the course in intellectual property at Duquesne University School of Law. Mr. Yeager has been named in the peer recognition directory, The Best Lawyers in America, since it began to list intellectual property lawyers. His expertise in the field of patent litigation has been acknowledged in the federal court in Pittsburgh by his being appointed as a Special Master for claim construction purposes. He continues his highly active litigation practice with emphasis in patent infringement cases.
Professional Background
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Mr. Yeager served as Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Duquesne University School of Law from 1971-79.
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He is a past President of the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association.
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Mr. Yeager is listed as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine (June 2006).
Professional/Civic Activities
- Allegheny County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association
- Founder and Board Member of the Pittsburgh Youth Golf Foundation.
- Board of Directors, Sewickley Valley YMCA
Court Admissions
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Supreme Court
Bar Admissions
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U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
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Bar of Pennsylvania
Education
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J.D.,
Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University
(1966)
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B.S.,
Pennsylvania State University
(1958)
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