Harold J. Meerbaum

Harold J. Meerbaum is an attorney at the law firm of Vugar G. Askerli. He is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO. He worked with companies to develop, obtain and enforce U.S. and International Intellectual Property rights, with an emphasis on patents. His experience includes prosecuting both domestic and foreign chemical and mechanical patent applications, preparing instruction letters to foreign associates in response to international patent office actions, drafting amendments and conducting patentability evaluations. He has also practiced in the area of Food and Drug Law by providing regulatory and compliance services for domestic and foreign companies in the food, drug, cosmetic and dietary supplement industries. He created nutritional and finished product labels. He helped companies with labeling and advertising compliance, GMPs, GRAS affirmations and notifications, New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) and 403(r)(6) notifications. He edited express and implied health/disease product claim(s) and conducted substantiation reviews of clients’ product/ingredient claim(s) on multi-media ads to comply with FDA and NAD regulations. He researched the safety and efficacy of clients’ product ingredients for required FT substantiation. Harold has 10+ years of experience in project engineering and technical sales for large multi-national companies. During his employment as a project engineer, he was responsible for completing difficult and complex projects with limited direction. While employed as a Vice President of Manufacturing and Sales, he managed the overall manufacturing operations for a plant with over 150 union employees and an operating budget of $20MM, as well as, managed and trained sales brokers in 25 states which increased sales by 80%. During his employment as an Applications Sales Engineer, he analyzed clients’ needs and developed specifications for the sale of processing and packaging equipment to the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.