16815 FINNEGAN, MARCUS BARTLETT
15 September 1927 - 13 April 1979
Interment: West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York.
Aged 51 years.

MARCUS B. FINNEGAN , 51, senior partner in the Washington law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow & Garrett, died of cancer 13 April at St. Joseph Hospital, Houston, Texas, where he had been a patient for several months. He was internationally known in the field of patent law, know-how licensing, and technology transfer, and had served as advisor and consultant to the United States government and the United Nations, as well as foreign governments, on these subjects.

In addition to law practice and governmental consulting activities, he was Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School, teaching a graduate course on "Patent and Know-How Licensing.

Active in numerous professional organizations, Marcus was president of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) United States of America (1973-74) and also president of the LES International (1975), In 1977, he was awarded the Gold Medal of LES International for outstanding achievements. He was also a member of the Board of Managers of the American Patent Law Association and of the Advisory Board of the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal.

He was the author of numerous books and articles on licensing and technology transfer and had spoken on these topics throughout the world. He was the co-editor and co-author with Robert Goldscheider of the two-volume LES book entitled, "The Law and Business of Licensing."

After graduating from USMA in 1949, Marcus served three years in the Corps of Engineers, including a year in Korea during the Korean War. While still in uniform, he received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Virginia in 1955, and his Master of Laws Degree from George Washington University in 1957, and transferred to the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAGC). He then served as United States Patent Advisor to Japan in Tokyo from 1957 to 1959. In 1959 he resigned his commission as a captain in the JAGC to enter private practice with the New York patent law firm of Morgan, Finnegan, Durham & Pine. In 1965 he founded his own firm in Washington with Douglas B. Henderson. The firm, now comprising 30 lawyers, specializes in patent litigation, licensing, related antitrust law, and other phases of patent and trademark law.

He was a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, New York, Virginia, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Court of Claims and of many United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts.

Marcus was an advisor to the White House Council on International Economic Policy; a Delegate of the United States Department of State to the Inter-American Working Group on Science and the Transfer of Technology in Brasilia, Brazil, 1974-75; and consultant to the United States/Union of Soviet Socialist Republic Joint Working Group of Intellectual Property. He also was among the experts appointed to study Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) patent policy.

Among several United Nations assignments, he was a consultant on licensing and antitrust for the United Nations International Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD ), Geneva, Switzerland. He was an Invited Expert at an "Expert Group Meeting on Licensing Practices" sponsored by UNIDO at Vienna Austria, in August 1972, and a Special Consultant to UNCTAD at the conference on the proposed Code of Conduct for the Transfer of Technology in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1975, as well as consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNTC), 1977.

He was also an advisor to the Government of Mexico on Licensing and Technology Transfer and was Honorary Chairman.of the International Licensing Conference at Techno '75, Tokyo, in May, 1975.

In addition to speaking many times for LES, he has also been a lecturer for: The Japan Patent Law Association; the Osaka Foundation of Science and Technology; the Kansai Economic Federation; the Practicing Law Institute; Techno '73, Tokyo; Techno '75, Tokyo; Know-How '72, Oslo; Know-How '74, Oslo; the United States Trademark Association, the American Management Association, the Patent Resources Group, the Licensing Law and Practices Institute, the Intensified Course in Antitrust Law presented by the Ohio Legal Center, the United Nations, the Mexican Government, the International Patent and Trademark Association (AIPPI ) and other international organizations.

Marcus was a member of the American, Federal, District of Columbia, Virginia, International, and Inter-American Bar Associations, the American, New York and New Jersey Patent Law Associations, the American Society of International Law, the Virginia State Bar, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Association, the American Judicature Society, the Patent Lawyers Club of Washington, D.C., the World Peace Through Law Center, the International Legal Society of Japan, the International Patent and Trademark Association, the Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada, the World Association of Law Professors, the Society of American Law Teachers, the International Common Law Exchange Society, the World Association of Lawyers, Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Order of the Coif, and the Tokyo American Club. His name is listed in "Who's Who in the World," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in American Law," and "Who's Who in Finance and Industry."

Surviving are his wife, the former Betsy N. Hammer; three daughters, Nancy L. Finnegan, Champaign, Illinois; Mrs. Susan F. Smith, Providence, Rhode Island; and Katherine E. Finnegan, Boston, Massachusetts; his father, George B. Finnegan Jr., Mountain Lakes, New Jersey; a sister, Dr. Dana G. Finnegan, Oakland, New Jersey; and a brother, George B. Finnegan III, Wilton, Connecticut.

Services were held on 18 April at All Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland, with burial at West Point, New York, on 20 April.

Marcus had many friends all over the world and they have written to his wife saying that "few men have equalled Marc's achievements as a lawyer or his exceptional qualities as a person." As his wife for 29 years, she adds, "He was also a kind and gentle man, a loving and generous husband and father; and it will take a long, long time for the children and me to adjust to this great loss. He aproached this fight for his life as he did a legal problem or a golf technique - by becoming an EXPERT. His law firm handled the patent on the new cancer drug, Thymidine, which Marc had been receiving for eight weeks prior to his death; so he spent many hours with the Research Team at the Stehlin Foundation in Houston gathering the facts. His greatest contribution yet may well be his personal involvement in the search for a cure of this vicious disease."

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