About
My practice focuses in patent litigation and other areas of intellectual property. I have significant pre-trial and trial experience successfully representing large companies in patent disputes involving medical devices, MEMS, computer hardware, computer software, computer algorithms, and food technology. I have also represented companies in various trademark, copyright, and misappropriation cases, including disputes in federal courts, state courts, and before the WIPO in cases decided under the UDRP.
I also have extensive practice representing both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy cases, including cases dealing with the overlap of bankruptcy practice and intellectual property disputes.
Prior to joining DLA Piper, I worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization's offices at the United Nations, where I wrote about the intersection of the United Nations Millennium Goals with international intellectual property systems.
Before becoming a lawyer, I served as a technology consultant in the recording industry for several years, where I developed an extensive background in the digital sciences, including digital signal processing and other areas of technology closely associated with the recording arts. I am the author of a college textbook on digital audio engineering, have written several papers in the field and have been cited in Forbes and other publications for my work in digital rights management.
REPRESENTATIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MATTERS
Representing medical device manufacturer in multiple competitor patent litigations regarding transducers, medical monitor design, and intravascular guide wire design
Representing a securities exchange in copyright and misappropriation lawsuit regarding the right to list options on indexes
Representing large pharmaceutical company in trademark, trade dress, and counterfeiting cases
Representing snack food company in competitor litigation regarding patented formulation for snack products
Work history
Intellectual Property Attorney
DLA Piper LLP (US)
March 2008 - Present
Associate
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
2007
Sales Engineer
Sweetwater Sound
1997 – 2005
Education and qualifications
University of Washington School of Law
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law
2005 – 2007
Publications
Digital Audio Explained - For the Audio Engineer
Sweetwater Press
2004
400 page college textbook explaining all aspects of digital audio, including the operation of the human ear, sound wave transmission, digital sampling and analog to digital converter design, and digital signal processing.
Federal Circuit enforces written description requirement even for negative limitations and narrower claims
Drug Discovery News
January 2014
DRUG DISCOVERY NEWS, Vol. 10 No. 1
The increased value of invalidity opinions after the Federal Circuit's ruling in Commil USA v. Cisco Systems
Westlaw Journal of Intellectual Property
2013
20 WESTLAW J. INTELL. PROP., No. 10, at 3
A System of Logo-Based Disclosure of DRM on Download Products
Suffolk University Journal of High Technology Law
2008
8 J. HIGH TECH. L. 57
An Exploration of Rights Management Technologies Used in the Music Industry
Boston College Intellectual Property & Technology Forum
2007
2007 B.C. INTELL. PROP. & TECH. F. 051001
Unplugged: The Music Industry’s Approach to Rolling Contracts on Music CDs
Chicago Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
2007
6 CHI-KENT J. INTELL. PROP. 280
Exploring Dither in Floating Point Systems
Sweetwater Sound
2005
Digital Distortion in CD’s and DVD’s: The Consequences of Traditional Digital Peak Meters
Trillium Lane Labs
2003
The Audio Engineer’s Approach to Understanding Digital Filters
Sweetwater Sound
2002
