Extensive experience in the procurement of patents involving electronics, semiconductor technologies, aerospace technologies, computer-related technologies, medical devices, mechanical and electromechanical systems
Provide counseling and opinions on patents and trademarks, including infringement, validity, and enforceability opinions, litigation support, and dispute resolution
Approximately ten years of industry experience as an engineer performing studies of missiles, spacecraft, aircraft, and propulsion systems
Education
JD Seattle Univ School of Law
MS Aero Engr, Univ of Wash
BS Aero Engr, Univ of Colo
Admissions / Affiliations
Board of Directors of the Washington State Patent Law Association, 2001-2009
(President 2007-08, Immediate-Past President 2008-09)
Admitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Courts of Washington (various others pro hac vice)
Admitted in Washington, USPTO
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Washington State Patent Law Association
Publications and Presentations
2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance, CLE presentation to the University of Colorado Venture Partners, Boulder, CO, Sept, 2019.
USPTO’s New Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Guidance: What Patent Practitioners Can Do Now, The Knowledge Group, CLE webinar presentation, April, 2019.
Claim Drafting in Today's BRI Environment, CLE presentation to the King County Bar Association IP Section, March 2011
WSPLA Panel Discussion – In re Bilski, CLE presentation to the Washington State Patent Law Association, Seattle, Dec. 2008.
Pushing Processes Over the Sun, CLE presentation to WSBA's Eastern Washington IP Institute Spokane, October 2008
IDS and Prior Art Searching, presentation to Global Institute of Intellectual Property, New Delhi, India, sponsored by U of Wash CASRIP, April 2008.
Patent Conflicts – A Few Fundamentals, in-house CLE presentation, Spokane, Dec. 2007.
I.P. Protection and China – A View from the Trenches, CLE presentation to the Univ of Idaho School of Law, Moscow, ID, Oct. 2006.
U.S. Patent Prosecution – Filing through Issuance, in-house CLE pres., Seattle, July 2005.
Intellectual Property Issues in Int'l Business Transactions – Due Diligence, CLE presentation to the enter for Intl Legal Studies Conference, Salzburg, Austria, Nov. 2004.
Patents and Trademarks – Issues and Tactics for Company Management, Pacific Northwest Aerospace Assoc, Portland, Oregon, March 2000
Stretchable Property – Patents and the Doctrine of Equivalents, D&W IP Law Update, Jan. 2001.
Reacting Gas Experimental Data in Low Density Flow, DTIC, WL-TR-93-3091, Sept., 1993.
The Normal Shock Generator: Research Apparatus for High Mach Applications, AIAA, 90-1930, June 1990.
A Method for the Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flow, Univ. of Washington Library, Master’s Thesis, Dec. 1986.
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