Patent and Trademark Prosecution
- Assisted with the development of a large-scale patent assertion/licensing program for an aerospace company with a portfolio of over 7,000 patents worldwide.
- Conducted numerous patent infringement analyses for a large computer company as part of a global cross-licensing program. Managed an audit of more than 10,000 worldwide trademark files for a Fortune 100 company.
- Assisted in a worldwide clearance project for potential new trademarks for a high technology Fortune 100 company.
- Conducted numerous patent infringement analyses for various oil field services companies.
- Assisted in due diligence for potential acquisition of a medical device company.
- Drafted numerous non-infringement and invalidity opinions concerning a wide range of technologies, including software compression algorithms, medical devices, pumps, and railroad applications.
- Drafted and/or prosecuted a wide range of patent matters, including, for example:
- U.S. Patent No. 7,249,639 ("Automated Arm for Positioning of Drilling Tools Such as an Iron Roughneck”)
- U.S. Patent No. 7,246,983 (“Pipe Racking System”)
- U.S. Patent No. 7,172,026 (“Apparatus to Allow a Coiled Tubing Tractor to Traverse a Horizontal Wellbore”)
- U.S Patent No. 7,086,486 (“Flow Control Valve and Method of Controlling Rotation in a Downhole Tool”)
- U.S. Patent No. 7,010,644 (“Software Refreshed Memory Device and Method”)
- U.S. Patent No. 6,949,795 (“Structure and Method of Fabricating a Transistor Having a Trench Gate”)
- U.S. Patent No. 6,765,398 (“Conductive Material for Integrated Circuit Fabrication”)
- U.S. Patent No. 6,300,724 (“System and Method for Controlling Rare Gas Illumination”
- Representing party seeking inter partes reexamination of claims in patent featuring techniques for managing transfers of information in communications networks.
