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Don featherstone1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() He has extensive experience preparing patentability opinions, state-of-the art opinions, infringement opinions, and validity opinions. In addition to strategic patent portfolio creation and management, Don has PTO litigation and reexamination experience. He emphasizes the interaction between intellectual property and sound business practices to help his clients leverage their IP and create shareholder value. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).ĭon specializes in patent preparation and prosecution counseling for a wide range of entities from start-ups and emerging growth companies to large multi-national corporations. Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Don examined patent applications in the field of semiconductor devices at the U.S. In addition, he leads the firm’s nanotechnology industry team. Prior to that, Don chaired the Recruiting Committee, and served as the Practice Group Leader for the firm’s Electronics Practice Group. Featherstone is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group and chairs the firm’s Foreign Filing Committee. PTAB Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP)ĭonald J.Reexamination and Supplemental Examination. ![]() My small Featherstone “Saints” Southampton FC physio centenary tribute using Airfix 1:32 footballers in 2018 – I’m sure the Don wore a suit and tie and not a tracksuit. I have written a little about his early / other career: He was soon writing books on physiotherapy and then branched out into military history and war-gaming, a field in which he would become an internationally-renowned author, with 40-odd titles to his name. Before long, Don realised that his dismissal ‘was the best thing that ever happened’ to him. Don was not without work – he had a private clinic round the corner from The Dell – but when Ted Bates became the manager in October 1955, Don did ask for his job back.īates continued to plead that the club had no money. So Don remained until 1955, when the chairman advised him that, despite his ‘excellent work’, the club’s ‘difficult financial situation’ required ‘the utmost economy’, which included dispensing with his services. Cann, to his credit, was having none of that. So the Board apparently decided that, while they no longer wanted him as manager, it would be good to retain him as the physio, in which case Featherstone would have to go. The side had been having a poor run, including an 8-2 defeat at Bury, when Cann resigned. It was Mallett who tipped Don off about an odd development in December 1951. At least Don felt that he got on well with the players, including the all-powerful captain, Joe Mallett – the “Godfather”, as Don saw it. A former Saints goalkeeper, he didn’t have a lot of time for Featherstone, with his ‘new-fangled’ ways. But trainer Sam Warhurst, an unsuccessful applicant, was still there. Of three internal candidates, Cann landed the vacancy. He had been Southampton’s masseur-cum-assistant trainer for three seasons, until the manager Bill Dodgin left in 1949. It was an odd set-up, under Sid Cann, a former Manchester City and Charlton Athletic player who had qualified as a masseur. He was appointed forthwith and started work in August 1951. Don told the Southampton directors that he’d appreciate a club-house and ‘a salary on a level with the basic pay of First Team players.’ Just think what he might achieve, working full-time. He told the club that only two Hounslow players had missed a match through injury and the team had gone 17 weeks, unchanged – not bad, he suggested, for a part-time physio, treating injuries two evenings a week and an occasional Sunday morning. Thus given a head-start, Don dispatched a one-page letter of application-cum-cv. When that magazine received an advert from Southampton FC for a physio, the editor shared it with Don in advance of publication. ![]() Main pic: Physio Don Featherstone manipulates the knee of full-back Bill Ellerington, while manager George Roughton looks on.ĭon Featherstone, who has died aged 95, was the club’s physio at a troublesome time in the Saints’ history.Īfter war-service in the Royal Armoured Corps, Don was practising physiotherapy in his native London, hoping ‘very much to get into sport.’ He had spent a couple of years at the Athletes Clinic in Harley Street and then, when AIK Stockholm visited London in November 1949, to play Chelsea and Arsenal, he acted as their physio during their stay.įor the 1950-51 season, Don was the first-team trainer to Hounslow Town in the Corinthian League and was writing a column, in Topical Times, on sports injuries. ![]()
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