THOMAS T. MOGA

	Bloomfield Hills 100 Bloomfield Hills Parkway Suite 200 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 Telephone: 248.258.4496 Facsimile: 248.258.1439 moga@butzel.com

LAW PRACTICE
Thomas Moga is a senior attorney practicing in Butzel Long’s Bloomfield Hills office.  He is a graduate of the St. Louis University School of Law (J.D., 1983), the University of Michigan (M.A., 1980; B.A., 1978) and Madonna University (B.S., cum laude, 1994). 

Mr. Moga is a patent lawyer specializing in intellectual property and international business transactions.  His experience in the arena of intellectual property includes the acquisition of patents and registrations for trademarks and copyrights, licensing, litigation, dispute resolution and mediation, portfolio management, and policy development.  Mr. Moga is an experienced patent prosecutor in the mechanical, chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical arts and has been qualified and has testified as an expert witness in patent disputes. 

In addition to his wide array of intellectual property work, Mr. Moga has managed anti-counterfeiting actions in Asia, including overseeing initial counterfeit product investigation, selecting and working with local investigators, selecting and working with local counsel, preparing administrative and judicial documents, and participating in raids.  Mr. Moga has also researched and prepared a section on IP laws and practice for country reports (China, Korea, India) for a U.S. corporate client’s submission to the Office of the US Trade Representative as part of annual Sections 301 and 306 reviews.  His China work has also included assisting in the preparation of a report on counterfeit IP for the US-China Commission in 2002.

Mr. Moga has provided a pharmaceutical client with a review and analysis of rules and practice on data protection related to pharmaceuticals in Asian countries, most particularly China.  He also had primary responsibility for the preparation of a white paper on the pharmaceutical market in China for multinational drug company.  In addition to IP-related sections on China’s compliance with the TRIPS Agreement, data protection, patent linking, compulsory licensing and enforcement, the paper also included discussions of China’s export controls, tariffs, drug regulation and distribution, healthcare, AIDS crisis, and pharmaceutical market.

A frequent speaker on the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO and on global intellectual property enforcement, Mr. Moga has organized and participated in several intellectual property delegations to Asia, both governmental and non-governmental.  He represented the American Intellectual Property Law Association at several Geneva meetings of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement.  

Mr. Moga has been involved in intellectual property training and education programs both at home and abroad.  He spent the first half of 1997 as a Fulbright Scholar in China where he taught patent law at Jilin University and acted as a foreign advisor to the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China.  In 1990, Mr. Moga was a visiting foreign expert in law at Xiamen University, China.  He also worked as a foreign legal expert for a patent and trademark office in Taipei in 1983-1984.  Presently Mr. Moga is involved in intellectual property training as a member of the Intellectual Property Group of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe.  He is an adjunct professor of the University of Toledo School of Law and the Michigan State University School of Law.  He is on the Board of Advisors for the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law’s LLM program in intellectual property.

Mr. Moga is the author of “Patent Practice and Policy in the Pacific Rim,” a three-volume treatise on patent law and practice in Asia.  He has had over thirty articles published on various aspects of intellectual property, including publications on China’s compliance with the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO (China Business Review, November 2002; The National Law Journal, July 2001), the patentability of genetically modified animals (JPTOS, 1994), and a year-long series of articles on current developments in Asian IP (Intellectual Property Today, 1997).  He has made over 50 presentations on IP-related topics in over a dozen countries including China (at the request of the US State Department), Yugoslavia (at the request of the US Department of Commerce), and India (at the request of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research).  Mr. Moga has also presented papers at AIPLA and BIO conferences.

Thomas Moga is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan and is admitted to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Supreme Court.  Mr. Moga’s memberships, honors and activities include: the American Intellectual Property Law Association (Committee Chair, International Education, 2001 – 2003; Nominating Committee, 2002), the Commissioner’s Report of the Chinese Patent Office, proofreader (1997 – 2003), Crain’s Detroit Business, “Top 40 Under 40” honoree (1996); Saint island Patent and Trademark Law Office, Taiwan, Resident Foreign Expert (1983 – 1984); the World Intellectual Property Organization Workshop for Mediators, Certificate of Training (1999); director, Joint US-China Copyright Symposium, presented in association with the U.S. Embassy (Beijing), the USIA, and the Copyright Office of China (1998); Faculty Fellowship, Saint Louis University School of Law (1982-1983), Scholarship recipient, Seminar, Laws of the European Communities (Brussels, 1982);  and patentee, United States Patent No. 6, 652,191, issued November 25, 2003, for “Self-Adjusting Water Pressure Responsive Diver’s Weight Belt Assembly.”

EDUCATION
Madonna University (B.S., cum laude, 1994)
University of Michigan (M.A., 1980; B.A., 1978)
St. Louis University School of Law (J.D., 1983)

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