1. Ralph Oman is currently the Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball and Kreiger Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Patent Law at The George Washington University Law School.
13 Facts About Ralph Oman
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In 1973, Ralph Oman received a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University, where he served as Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law.
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Ralph Oman is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Supreme Court Bar.
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From 1962 to 1964, Ralph Oman worked for the US Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in Saudi Arabia.
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Ralph Oman served with the US Navy as a Naval Flight Officer from 1965 to 1970 and was decorated for his service in Vietnam.
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From 1974 to 1975, Ralph Oman was a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
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In 1975, Ralph Oman moved to the US Senate, where he worked for Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania as Chief Minority Counsel on the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.
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Ralph Oman helped the Senator draft the language and negotiate the compromises that resulted in the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976.
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In 1977, Senator Scott retired and Ralph Oman became senior lawyer to Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland, the Senate's leading proponent of strong copyright protection.
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In 1982, Ralph Oman became Chief Counsel of the newly revived Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, and in 1985 he scheduled the first Senate hearing in 50 years on US adherence to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
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Ralph Oman is one of three founding directors of the US Committee for the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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Ralph Oman began teaching at The George Washington University Law School in 1993.
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Ralph Oman is currently the Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball and Kreiger Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Patent Law at GW Law.