Admitted
1985, Oregon (inactive), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1988, California, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 1992, U.S.
Law School
Lewis & Clark College, J.D., 1984; George Washington University, LL.M., in Patent/Trade Regulati
Law School Graduation Year
College
University of Portland, B.S.M.E., 1979
Memberships
Federal Circuit and American (Member, Sections on Litigation and Intellectual Property Law) Bar Associations; Orange County Patent Law Association (President, 1994); American Intellectual Property Law Association (President-Elect, 2003—; First Vice-President, 2002-2003; Second Vice-President, 2001-2002; Director, 1995-1998); American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation (Treasurer, 2000; Trustee, 2000—).
Biographical
Law Clerk to the Honorable Helen W. Nies, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1985-1987. Author: Tinkering with the Federal Circuit: Patent Bar Must Look at Background, Not Specialty of Appointees, Los Angeles Daily J., 1996; Federal Circuit Unsettles Doctrine of Equivalents, Nat'l L. J., 1995; Willful Patent Infringement in the U.S., Patent World, 1993; Breaking The Code: Avoiding Willful Patent Infringement, Orange County Law., 1993; The On Sale and Public Use Bars to Patentability: The Policies Reexamined, Fed. Cir. B.J., 1991; How to Avoid Willful Patent Infringement Based On Opinions Of Counsel, AIPLA Selected Legal Papers, 1991; Application of the On Sale Bar to Activities Performed Before Reduction to Practice, J. Patent & Trademark Off. Soc'y (JPTOS), 1990; The Federal Circuit, Assigned Estoppel and the Progeny of Lear v. Adkins, JPTOS, 1988; Legislative Update: Lear v. Adkins, AIPLA Selected Legal Papers, 1988; Licensee Validity Challenges and the Obligation to Pay Accrued Royalties: Lear v. Adkins Revisited, JPTOS, 1986-1987. Co-Author: Judicial Hyperactivity: The Federal Circuit's Discomfort with its Appellate Role, Berkeley Tech L. J., 2000; En Banc Review, Horror Pleni, and the Resolution of Patent Law Conflicts, Santa Clara L. Rev., 2000; The Law Of Unintended Consequences: The On Sale Bar After Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y, 2000; On-Sale Bar After Pfaff, Law News Network's IP Law Center, 2000; Stricter Application of On-Sale Bar follows Pfaff v. Wells, IP L. Weekly, 2000; Patent Law: On-sale bar after ‘Pfaff’, Nat'l L.J., 2000; Using the United States Customs Service to Stop Infringement of U.S. Intellectual Property Rights, New Matter, 1999; Teeing Off on Counterfeits: How the Customs Service Targets Fake Imports—and How IP Owners Can Help, IP Magazine, 1999; Stare Un-Decisis: The Sometimes Rough Treatment of Precedent in Federal Circuit Decision-Making, New Matter, 1998; The Official Gazette an