Herb Cantor

Herbert Isaac ("Herb") Cantor started his journey through life in New York City on a generally fair, turning to cloudy, day on December 10, 1935. He was the second child of David and Ethel Cantor. He did not go to meet his maker or his savior, nor did he go to that great place in the sky. He dropped dead; dead, dead, dead on August 6, 2022.

Herb grew up in New York. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1952 at the age of 16. After graduation he went off to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., where he majored in partying and minored in chemistry. Not surprisingly, after one and a half years he was invited to move to friendlier climes. He returned to New York where he found employment in a photo lab and held some other jobs.
In September of 1954, Herb enlisted in the Air Force to protect his country from enemies, foreign and domestic. He spent several years at Sampson Air Force Base outside of Geneva New York. While there he became familiar with a number of watering holes in that general area; in particular, The Golden Buck in Ovid, N.Y. and the 5 and 20 Club in Geneva. In 1956 he transferred to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver to teach driver education and finished his tour of duty in late 1957.

Herb returned to college with a somewhat more serious outlook but, due to his father's reluctance to finance his renewed educational career, he attended college on a part-time basis while working full time. He eventually graduated from New York University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. Upon graduation, he moved to the Washington, D.C. area where he started working as a patent examiner with the U.S. Patent Office (now the Patent and Trademark Office). While working for the government, Herb attended law school at night at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America. He graduated near the top of his class in 1970 with a Juris Doctor degree. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1970, to the District of Columbia bar in 1971, and to the Colorado bar in 2005. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney; and was admitted to practice in a number of federal courts.

Herb had a successful career as an intellectual property attorney. He obtained patents and registered trademarks for many clients and won a number of infringement lawsuits for his clients. Herb had articles published in the United States and in Japan. Fie participated in seminars and gave lectures on intellectual property in Japan.

Herb met the love of his life on a blind date on New Year's Eve, 1970. On July 8, 1972, Herb and Lynn were married on a lawn overlooking the Severn River in Maryland. They had two children, David and Susan. Herb doted on his grandson William Isaac Wolfe. All of them survive Herb. As to be expected, his parents did not. His sister, Enid Lesser, did not survive him. Herb's nieces Laurie Guretsky, Julie Soda, and Cindy Lesser survive him as do his "adopted' children, Hao Zhang and Lisa. Both Herb and Lynn learned to sail while crewing on a yacht in the English Channel, and often sailed their sloop in the Chesapeake Bay, herb with his ever-present cigar in his mouth.

Herb formed the partnership of Cantor & Kraft with the late lamented Dennis Kraft on January 1, 1971, located in downtown Washington, D.C. After Dennis went on to a corporate position, Herb merged his firm with another firm to result in the Washington, D.C. firm of Wegner, Cantor et al. After a series of Mergers, Herb finished his successful full time career with the firm of Crowell & Moring. Herb retired from the full time practice of Intellectual Property Law in 2005 and he and Lynn moved to Fort Collins. After a couple of years of full-time retirement, Herb joined the Fort Collins IP firm of Cochran Freund and Young as of counsel.
Herb was an accomplished photographer, taking his camera with him wherever he went. He was fond of travel and displayed his photos taken in places all around the world. Herb was also an extraordinary cook who enjoyed creating memorable meals for his family and friends. He insisted, incidentally, that the word "gourmet" is a noun and not an adjective as commonly used by uneducated writers. Once he was confirmed dead, he was put in the oven and disposed of. There will be a memorial service Friday. September 16, 2022, at Windsong Event . In lieu of flowers, buy a bottle of Jack Daniel's and toast him.