Edward Walterscheid

1936 - 2011

Edward C. Walterscheid, a nine-year resident of Summerlin, Nev., and former Los Alamos, N.M., resident passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011, after a short bout with cancer.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Jerre; his two sons: Jeffrey and Steven; five grandsons; and two sisters: Charlene Conlin and Janet Wheeler.
He was born April 29, 1936, in Carlsbad, N.M., where he spent his boyhood. He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961 with a degree in chemistry and then worked for five years as a technical writer before returning to the University in 1966 to obtain a law degree. His entire career as an attorney was spent at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he practiced first as a patent attorney and later became Deputy Laboratory Counsel. Upon his retirement in 1997, he began a new career as a legal historian specializing in the history of intellectual property law in the United States.
Throughout his life he was an avid reader and writer. He published more than 40 articles, most of them dealing either with intellectual property law or the history of intellectual property law. He also authored two books dealing with the history of patent law in the United States. At the time of his passing, he was working on a third book about the history of U.S. patent law. His last thoughts were of his family and how proud he was of them.
Private family services will be held at a later date in Los Alamos. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting that donations be made to hospice or cancer research.