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Intellectual Property

Jan. 15, 2009

A Model IP Attorney Has an Antique Hobby

John L. Haller, a patent attorney at Gordon & Rees in San Diego, displays an ironing table from his collect of antique patent models. This one was patented on Dec. 30, 1884.

By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - In the late 19th Century, one Andrew J. Herring of Mauch Chunk, in the county of Carbon, and state of Pennsylvania, was busy inventing an improved stirrup that he submitted to the U.S. Patent Office on Sept. 15, 1873, complete with a detailed model.

Flash forward to 1995, when one John Haller, a partner in the San Diego office of Gordon &am...

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