Prosecuting, enforcing, licensing, and litigating intellectual property matters.Technical arts include electrical, electronics, software, mobile apps, automotive, mechanical, and medical arts.

- Developed and prosecuted patent applications for universities, foreign and domestic corporations, doctors, dentists, automotive technologists, retail ventures, and restaurants.- Patented technologies and advised clients in electronics, electrical, mechanical, software, business methods, mobile apps, automotive, culinary, apparel, and medical arts.- Registered and prosecuted trademarks before the USPTO and international trademark offices.- Achieved quick allowances for patent applications under final rejection after unsuccessful prosecution by large firms. Technologies included sports, automotive, and medical arts.- IP litigation, including patent infringement matters and trademark infringement matters.- Forensic analyst and consultant for high-value software litigation, including patent and copyright infringement.- Expert witness for high profile high-tech intellectual property litigation matters, including software patent infringement, software copyright infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets (software).- Counsel for a finance company. Performed several functions, including compliance.- Served a successful international company’s Nevada operations. Assisted with their domestic legal matters. Helped spearhead win in a broad multimillion-dollar IP litigation in U.S. District Court.

(Formerly Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal)Handled patent law matters, including prosecution, new applications, litigation, licensing, and contracts, in the mechanical, electrical, electronics, semiconductors and software arts. Representative clients included Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.- Patented a diverse range of technologies for a Fortune 100 client, which were used in several commercially successful products.- Litigated a $100M patent infringement suit defending manufacturer of a popular successful appliance. Aggressive defense resulted in a favorable settlement. - Achieved allowance for a patent application for a client’s valuable business method without narrowing the claims after it was under final rejection.- Contributed to Fortune 100 client’s defense of a 9-figure patent infringement lawsuit brought by a Fortune 100 competitor.- Chosen as mentor for firm’s regarded summer associate program based on reputation for superior interrelationships, mentorship, and approachability.

(Formerly Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP)Handled patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters, including drafting and prosecuting patent applications, transactional matters, litigation, settlement agreements, and enforcing trademarks.- Met tight deadline for filing a large number of patent applications pertaining to engines and fuel-injection technology for a Fortune 100 client.- Patented a broad spectrum of technologies that impacted most large machinery and heavy equipment produced by a Fortune 100 client.- Handled a large IP transactional matter for a leader in the beverage industry, including well-known trademarks in dozens of countries worldwide.- Extensive trademark registration and prosecution before the USPTO.- Successfully enforced popular trademarks in several countries globally for two Fortune 500 clients.- Participated in multiple IP litigation matters.

Oversaw all technical and systems requirements for 12 project areas, including hardware, software, design, planning, and implementation.- The projects required both hardware and software expertise.- Earned three performance awards, the first within 3 months.

Member of team responsible for a complex system delivering real-time data directly from various stock exchanges worldwide to the company’s various global offices.- Achieved 100% uptime 24x7 for the elaborate global network of computers, servers, databases, and networks.

- Integral member of engineering team who developed and implemented a novel customized trading system for this options clearing and trading firm.- Achieved production status in less than 6 months with 99%+ uptime.

- Provided consulting services for various trading applications and software packages developed in C and C++ and based on NeXT and SUN Unix platforms.