Retired (at least for now)

Business-oriented litigation attorney who also advises technology companies on business, patent, and other intellectual property issues. Technologies include computer software, networking, computer hardware, the Internet, business methods, consumer electronics, audio/video (including video compression), digital electronic circuits, and mechanical devices. • Intellectual Property Protection. Build barriers to entry for clients by developing intellectual property strategies tailored to their business plans, competitive landscape, product development plans, and exit strategies, including: •• Patent prosecution, foreign patent prosecution (utility and design), U.S. and foreign trademark prosecution, European oppositions, including appeals, reexaminations, and reissues. •• Patent portfolio strategy and patent portfolio management, including developing portfolios for patent monetization. • Licensing / Transactional matters: Negotiate and draft patent, trademark, and copyright license agreements and other technology related agreements including terms of use, privacy policies, and technology development agreements. Step into stalled contract negotiations, determine parties’ underlying motives, and devise creative terms to resolve impasses. • Intellectual Property Litigation. Successful in patent litigation as well as cases involving trademark infringement and copyright infringement. Motion practice, taking and defending depositions and other discovery, and preparation of expert witnesses. Draft briefs and arguing appeals. Originate novel patent non-infringement, infringement, invalidity, and validity theories and arguments later validated by Federal Court judges. • Patent Infringement and Validity Opinions, including complex claim charts, both offensive and defensive. • Client counseling on other intellectual property matters, including unfair competition, trade dress, trade secrets, and domain name disputes, • Technical analysis, including reverse engineering, forensic analysis, use of analytics, writing customized computer code (proficient in Python and Visual Basic).