Lawyers

Experience

• Advise clients on and provide services to clients in connection with all aspects of their businesses that relate to technology and intellectual property
• Conduct and manage U.S. and international patent prosecution for multiple portfolios
• Consult with and advise clients on filing and prosecution strategies
• Write and prosecute patent applications, reissue patent applications and reexaminations; negotiate with examiners; file and pursue appeals to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• Draft opinions on patentability, validity/invalidity, infringement, non-infringement, unenforceability
• Negotiate, draft and litigate transaction agreements, employment agreements, supply agreements, joint development agreements, purchase agreements, confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements, joint venture agreements, termination agreements/letters, cease and desist letters, and settlement agreements
• Conduct/manage IP due diligence for corporate transactions
• Advise on and assist clients with development of IP strategy, including technology monetization, enforcement, licensing, and litigation strategies
• Developed proprietary patent landscape product
• Advise on and assist with the development of patent departments and patent procedures
• Provoke patent interferences; conduct and manage patent interferences through the priority phase to final judgment and including §146 actions in federal district court
• Conduct and manage patent litigations, including plaintiff prefiling investigations and defendant defense investigations; develop case strategy, including discovery, pre-trial and trial strategies; prepare and manage litigation budgets; manage litigation teams; work with joint defense groups
• Former Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Technologies/Industries

• Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices
• Materials science, chemistry
• Electronics, microlithography, optics
• Heavy and light machinery; mechanical devices
• Software, internet, network security, business methods
• Household and personal products

General Information

• Member: Maryland State Bar Association
• Co-Author: 4th Circuit Decisions in Intellectual Property, Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation, Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation of the ABA; 2007, 2008, 2009 Editions
• Presenter and Lecturer: Intensive Course in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing, American Conference Institute, Cambridge, MA; Atlanta, GA, 2008
• Guest Lecturer: University of Virginia Darden School of Business E-Boot Camp, Charlottesville, VA, 2008, 2009, 2010
• Guest Lecturer: Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property, Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute, 2009, 2010

Education

• Cornell University (A.B. 1987)
• Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (J.D. 1993)