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Eckert Seamans Attorney Named to Saint Vincent College Board of Directors

The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today announced that attorney Timothy P. Ryan has been named to the Board of Directors of Saint Vincent College.

Timothy P. Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer of Eckert Seamans and a Member of the firm’s Litigation Division.  He has a broad range of experience in commercial, business and regulatory litigation, covering matters such as patent, trademark, copyright infringement, licensing, franchising, unfair competition, contracts, RICO, securities fraud and toxic exposure issues.  He has represented litigants in various state and federal courts across the country and before state and federal administrative agencies.  Mr. Ryan is one of the attorneys who represented petitioners in the landmark Markman case at trial and before the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.  The case involved the constitutional right to jury trial of disputes involving the construction of patent claim terms.  Mr. Ryan has been recognized as one of Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers for 2004 & 2005 as selected by Law & Politics and published in Philadelphia Magazine.  Mr. Ryan is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property litigation issues.  He is the immediate past Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.  He also is a member of the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.  Mr. Ryan is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.  In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of Saint Vincent College, Mr. Ryan also serves on the boards of numerous other organizations, including the Metropolitan YMCA of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.  He graduated, cum laude, from Duquesne University School of Law, where he was a member of the Duquesne Law Review, and graduated with highest honors from Saint Vincent College with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  Mr. Ryan is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Third and District of Columbia Circuits, and the U.S. Claims Court.  He resides in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. 

Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning.  Its mission is to provide quality undergraduate and graduate education for men and women to enable them to integrate their professional aims with the broader purposes of human life.  The programs, activities, and encounters that make up student life at Saint Vincent College encourage the intellectual gifts, professional aptitudes and personal aspirations of students to mature harmoniously.

About Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (www.eckertseamans.com), a national law firm with ten offices throughout the eastern United States, provides a full range of legal services nationwide to businesses of all sizes, institutions, municipalities, colleges and universities, government agencies and individuals.  Its practice areas encompass litigation, including mass tort and products liability litigation, corporate and business law, intellectual property law, labor and employment relations, aviation law, bankruptcy and restructuring, employee benefits, environmental law, construction law, municipal finance, real estate, and tax and estate law.  Eckert Seamans has offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, West Chester and Southpointe, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Morgantown, West Virginia; Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and White Plains, New York.