Education

B.S.	University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 1980 Electrical Engineering National Merit Scholarship
M.S.	University of Southern California, 1989 Computer Engineering
J.D.	Hastings College of the Law, 1991

Bar Memberships

• 1991 California
• 1992 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 35,809)

Professional Employment

Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC, San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA, 2003 to Present

Intellectual Property Attorney, Founder and Principal

Patent licensing, prosecution, valuation and acquisition in the computer, software and electrical arts. Clients include Fortune 100 companies and Silicon Valley startups. Patent portfolio development and management. Client counseling for IP strategy. Extensive patent prosecution and litigation experience in software, telecommunications, DSP, computer and digital systems inventions. Patents have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing and litigation efforts. Extensive work with startup companies especially Internet entertainment, infrastructure, B2B, database, user interface and e-commerce enabling applications. MEMS, semiconductor process, nanoengineering.

Townsend and Townsend and Crew, San Francisco, CA, 1997 to 2003

Intellectual Property Attorney, Partner

Training and management of associates. 1-2M of prosecution-based billings. See Townsend experience, below.

Sony Corporation of America, San Jose, CA, 1995 to 1997

Intellectual Property Attorney

Sole attorney responsible for establishing and managing Sony's West Coast Intellectual Property operations in a facility of 800 engineers. Responsible for instituting programs to patent Sony's technology and products especially in the areas of computer architecture, software, digital audio, Internet content delivery, interactive entertainment, professional broadcast products, data compression and transmission, semiconductor design and other R&D. Negotiation of contract clauses for technology partnering (e.g., Intel re: Sony PC, Apple re: IEEE 1394). Counseling company presidents on strategic IP issues. Handling of third-party matters. Selection and management of outside counsel. Drafting of key patents. Supporting Los Angeles-based picture and content-related groups in new media development. Copyright, trademark and trade secret work.

Townsend and Townsend and Crew, San Francisco, CA, 1991 to 1995

Intellectual Property Attorney

Specialist in software, user interface and computer-related inventions. Drafted 25-30 patents per year. Managed software clean-room development for a large software developer. Litigation experience in patent infringement and software copyright infringement cases includes discovery investigations, depositions and preparing motions. Prepared license agreements.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 1987 to 1988

Lead Engineer, Communications Research Division

Designed and coded simulation of a communications system in "C." Wrote device driver for solar system radar project.

Computer Programmer Consultant, Los Angeles, CA, 1983 to 1986

Self-Employed

Wrote software for several different clients including Hughes Aircraft, Sega, Atari, Honeywell. Languages include C, assembly, PASCAL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Forth, Basic, LISP, Prolog. Designed award-winning children's educational program. Created and marketed original computer programs. Wrote firmware for a military communications system. Modified software design for remittance processing system.

Hughes-Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA, 1981 to 1983

Member of Technical Staff, Advanced Programs Development

Worked in systems integration for airborne radar and ground stations. Flight testing of radar systems. VAX 11/780 computer manager. Debugged interface cards. Digital circuit design. Integration and testing of hardware and software.

Other Skills

Producer of documentary videos. Footage aired on "A Current Affair" and on the evening news. Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter. Original songs performed in various Los Angeles and San Francisco clubs. Songs have received airplay and have been performed live on radio. Created websites in HTML, XML PERL and Java. Inventor on patents relating to interactive CDROM technology and Internet web browsers.