Pittsburgh, PA, April 2, 2009 — Craig G. Cochenour, a shareholder in the Intellectual Property Section of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's Pittsburgh office, is this year's recipient of The Hugh C. Muldoon Memorial Lecture Award. The award was presented to Cochenour by the Rho Chi Society of the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy.  

On March 31, Cochenour served as keynote speaker at the Rho Chi pharmacy students' honors banquet held in the Duquesne University Ballroom in Pittsburgh. His paper titled "Generic Drug Approval Process and Branded Drug Patents: The Hatch-Waxman Act Meets The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement And Modernization Act" was previously published by the American Society For Pharmacy Law (ASPL) at its National Symposium. Cochenour recently delivered a CLE program at the symposium, which was attended by individuals from the pharmaceutical industry, government board of pharmacy regulators and academicians from the U.S. and abroad.  

About Cochenour

Craig Cochenour handles registration and protection of copyrights, domestic and international licensing, trade secret and unfair competition law, Internet and electronic commerce law, employment consulting agreements and confidentiality agreements for the protection of technology.

Cochenour is a graduate of Duquesne University's School of Pharmacy and has been a registered pharmacist since 1981.