Nancy Baum Delain

I came late in life to the law; I graduated from college (Smith) in 1978 and from law school (Franklin Pierce) in 2003. In the intervening years, I went to graduate school (Rensselaer Polytechic Institute) and spent a long time as a technical writer and editor, working for large industries, small startups, consulting groups and even a scientific and technical post-graduate-level publisher.

I now concentrate my law practice in intellectual property and business law. I am a patent attorney registered in the US, so I handle patent prosecution work; I also handle trademark prosecution and copyright prosecution and litigation. On the business side, I work with forming business entities and with developing contracts of many types, including terms-of-service agreements and agreements to form and govern strategic alliances.

In my spare(?) time, I enjoy reading (yes, I read John Grisham novels), walking, swimming (I worked my way through college as a NYState lifeguard), and movies, among many other things. I do watch television -- collapsing for an hour in front of the tube is good stress relief for me.

My daughter is an undergraduate college student, majoring in English education (she wants to become a high school English teacher). I have two cats; one, a venerable neutered male, I've had since he was about 2 months old, which was a long, long time ago now; the other, a kittenish spayed female, I got in early 2008. They keep me well entertained.