THOMAS SCHNECK received a B.A. (Physics) degree in 1961 from the University of California (Berkeley) and a J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1971. He worked for several years as a patent engineer for the University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. He has been in private practice as a patent attorney since 1971, working as an associate for Rosenblum, Parish & Bacigalupi of San Francisco/Palo Alto (1971‑1974) and then in his own practice. He served as the chairman of an ABA sub‑committee on automated patent information retrieval and also served as co-chair of the Santa Clara County Bar Association Education Committee. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer (1962‑1966), a former trustee of Presentation High School in San Jose, and is on the Board of Visitors of Santa Clara University School of Law. He served for one year (2001) as the public member of the Santa Clara County Parole Commission under appointment by the presiding judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. He has been on the faculty of Lincoln Law School of San Jose as adjunct professor of intellectual property law since 2000. A reported decision of interest is In re Newell, 891 F.2d 899, 13 USPQ2d 1248 (CAFC, 1989). Tom is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the state and federal courts of California. He is the author of Patenting Human Life, a Multidimensional Problem, 32 Lincoln L. Rev. 1, 2004-2005; and The Duty to Search, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 87, 9, pgs. 689-704 (2005).