Raymond Van Dyke

Raymond Van Dyke is an intellectual property and technology attorney and a professorial lecturer in the Department of Information Systems & Technology Management at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB).

His interests are technological innovation and business entrepreneurial protections through the usage of intellectual property, i.e., patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other laws, as well as the history and philosophy of technology and intellectual property.  He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a fellow of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and a board member of the Technology Transfer Society, DC. He is a senior vice president and chair of the special events committee of the Licensing Executives Society and its longtime Washington, D.C. chapter chair, where he interviews legal and technical scholars.  He is also chair of the intellectual property section of the Bar Association of Montgomery County, and active in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and other bar and technical associations, such as the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE, and inventor groups. His practice often takes him to foreign countries where he advocates matters for his clients and lectures.

He continues to advise various agencies and organizations on intellectual property matters, particularly the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), and regularly argues matters there on behalf of clients, and also advises on various legislation to help inventors, including testifying before Congress and the USPTO. He also served as a delegate to the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). Prior to joining the faculty at the George Washington University, Mr. Van Dyke was an adjunct professor at American University, Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of Engineering, in Dallas, Texas. He has also been a visiting professor at other institutions, including Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, the University of Strasbourg, France, the University of Texas at Dallas, and other institutions.

He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics (with a minor in Classical Greek), a master’s degree in Computer Science, and a Juris Doctorate law degree from the University of North Carolina. He is admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court and various appellate, district and specialty federal courts, and various state courts, including Washington, D.C., Maryland, New York, New Jersey and Texas, and is a registered patent attorney.