I bring extensive intellectual property law experience and deep technological knowledge to aid clients in building patent portfolios that support their overall business goals. The clients I represent have diverse technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, semiconductor devices and processing, software anti-piracy, communication, wearable and IoT devices, speech and handwriting recognition, and image and video processing, among others. With a wide variety of intellectual property experience, I offer services for opinion letters, patent licenses, standard essential patent (SEP) investigation, and strategic patent counseling. I am also a co-developer of an AI application for automatic patent claims analysis.

Bar Admissions

• Oregon State Courts
• Washington State Courts

Education

• Santa Clara University School of Law, Juris Doctor degree (1992)
• Ohio State University, Bachelor of Science degree, Computer Information Science (1986)

• Created global IP strategy in alignment with a start-up's business goals, resulting in a patent portfolio that generated millions of dollars in licensing revenue and withstood repeated invalidity challenges.
• Developed a patent portfolio for a start-up related to a wearable device that Google purchased, and another portfolio that Samsung licensed.
• Advised business executives and the boards of various clients and determined strategic areas for patenting as well as identified patentable subject matter.
• Prepared a large e-commerce client for potential litigation by generating a portfolio of non-infringement opinions.
• A named inventor on:
  • Method and System for Hosting an Internet Web Site on a Digital Camera, US 6,567,122, issued May 20, 2003.
  • Method and System for Automatically Configuring a Hand-Held Camera Using Wireless Communication to Improve Image Quality, US 6,970,189, issued November 29, 2005.
  • Multipurpose Navigation Keys for an Electronic Imaging Device, US 7,222,307, issued May 22, 2007.

• Ruling Dismisses Antitrust Claims Against AMTSO
• Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit