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Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

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.

Worldwide, Gb

(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.

20+ U.S. Offices, Us

(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.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- 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.

Zurich, Ch

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

Juris Doctor, Intellectual Property Law

B.S., Electrical Engineering