Carlson, Dale L.

Dale Carlson is Chair of the Patent Prosecution Practice Group at Wiggin and Dana. Before joining Wiggin and Dana in 1993, Dale was in-house intellectual property counsel at both Union Carbide and Olin Corporation for a total of nearly twenty years. He has extensive intellectual property law experience in a wide range of technologies, including polymer chemistry, including polyurethanes, polyolefins, and hybrid polymers; specialty chemicals, including biocides, surfactants, antifreezes, agricultural chemicals, explosives, fuel cells and rocket propellants; chemical engineering process technology; and biotechnology, including DNA probe and lipase technology.

Dale is currently serving as President-Elect of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Dale is also the NYIPLA's Historian. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Association Internationale pour de la Protection de la Propriete Industrielle, the International Intellectual Property Association, and the Intellectual Property Owners organization. He was a member of the "IP Law Associations Committee" of the American Intellectual Property Law Association for a three-year term (2004-2007).

Dale is a member of the State Bars of Connecticut, New York, and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to the District Court for the District of Connecticut, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Dale received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his J.D. at Syracuse University, where he was Associate Editor of the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce. He also received an advanced law degree (LL.M.) in Trade Regulation from New York University. Dale has written and lectured extensively on intellectual property law matters.

Dale is currently in his tenth year as an Adjunct Professor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut, where he teaches two courses in patent law. He is also a member of Board of Directors of the Gateway Community College Foundation in New Haven, Connecticut, and previously served as Chair of the Board's nominating committee.