RICHARD H. STERN, born New York, N.Y., September 9, 1931; admitted to bar, 1959, Connecticut; 1970, U.S. Supreme Court; 1980, District of Columbia; registered to practice before U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.  Education: Columbia College (A.B., cum laude, 1953); Columbia University (B.S.E.E., 1954); Yale University (L.L.B., summa cum laude, 1959).  Eta Kappa Nu; Order of the Coif. Author:  "Semiconductor Chip Protection," prentice-Hall/Law & Business, 1986.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Law & Business, 1986.  Member, Advisory Board:  European Intellectual Property Review, 1978-; BNA Patent & Trademark & Copyright and Antitrust Editor, Computer Law Reporter, 1982-; Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Byron R White, U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1963.  Attorney-Advisor to Commissioner A.L. Higginbotham and Trial Attorney, Bureau of Restraint of Trade, Federal Trade Commission, 1963-1966.  Director, Compliance Division, Office of Foreign Direct Investments, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1968-1969.  Chief, Patent Section, 1970-1977 and Chief, Intellectual Property Section, 1977-1978, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.  Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, 1974; Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University, 1992-.  Member: District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Chairman, Subcommittee on New Forms of Protection for Computer Software, Computer Software Committee, Patent Section, 1982-1986); American Intellectual Property Law Association; Computer Society of IEEE (Chairman, Intellectual Property Subcommittee, Public Policy Committee, 1985-). PRACTICE AREAS: Patents; Trademarks; Copyrights; Electrical Patents; Electronic Patents; Prosecution; Computer and Software Law; Intellectual Property Law.