I have helped technology businesses, including ?several innovative Fortune 500 companies in Silicon ?Forest, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and other ?technology hubs across the nation, prepare and file ?both U.S. patent and Patent Cooperation ?Treaty (PCT) applications. I have also assisted new ?businesses in managing their patent portfolios, from ?portfolio inception to acquisition.?Experienced counsel for complex technologyI have been practicing patent and trademark prosecution for more than ten ?years. My experience includes prosecution of patent applications in ?fields such as cloud computing, networking, computer ?architecture, operating system software, video encoding, social ?networking applications, connected vehicle service software, security ?software, resistive memory, and electromechanical ?technologies. Prior to my career in law, I worked as a technical marketing ?engineer in Intel's motherboard group.?I joined Schwabe as part of the group from Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP, ?the boutique intellectual property firm that merged with Schwabe in ??2015.?

Bar Admissions

• Oregon State Courts
• Washington State Courts

Education

• Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, Juris Doctor degree (2005)
• Santa Clara University, Bachelor of Science degree, Electrical Engineering

Significant Accomplishments

Patents and publications

• 8,050,817 (originally assigned to Airbiquity, Inc.)
• 7,937,531 (originally assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc.)
• 8,095,747 (originally assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp.)
• 8,121,197 (originally assigned to Elemental Technologies, Inc.)
• 9,075,629 (originally assigned to Microsoft Corp.)
• 2015/0193544 (originally assigned to Salesforce.com, Inc.)
• 9,124,899 (originally assigned to Sharp Laboratories of America)
• 8,610,099 (originally assigned to Unity Semiconductor Corporation)
• 8,180,852 (originally assigned to Social Concepts, Inc.)

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