Providing advice concerning patents copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, computer law and related litigation.  Specializing in Electrical Engineering sciences, including telecommunications, business methodologies, financial services, fuel cells, network routing, semiconductor devices and video compression techniques.

Experience in all aspects of general and intellectual property litigation, including: pretrial investigation, drafting and filing initial papers, handling service of papers and third party subpoenas, managing discovery and discovery disputes, conducting and defending depositions, preparing motion papers, managing expert witnesses and reports, witness and exhibit preparation, and preparing and negotiating settlement agreements.

• Implement programs to identify, evaluate and protect

   client’s intellectual property.

• Prepare product clearance, non-infringement and

   invalidity opinions; and patent assertion, infringement

   and validity opinions.

• Advise clients generally regarding contractual

   obligations, copyright clearance, liability exposure, 

   and scope of non-competition clauses.

• Prosecute patents before the United States Patent

   Office; managed docket of over 50 prosecution cases,

   including U.S. and foreign applications.

Transactional, Counseling and Other General Practice Experience

Draft and negotiate agreements, including: intellectual property licenses, such as strategic field-of-use and cross licenses; confidentiality and non-competition agreements; software development and licensing; website user and privacy agreements; music producer and royalty agreements; joint music production agreements; and liability releases.

Due diligence investigation of intellectual property and patent valuation.

Handled accounting and financial reporting aspects of multi-year corporate litigation.

Advised non-profit foundation for last 7 years on numerous issues related to Foundation activities, including management of yearly scientific expeditions in Alaska.

Intellectual Property Associate

Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy, LLP - New York, NY

(2005-2006)

Intellectual Property Associate
Chadbourne & Parke, LLP - New York, NY 

(2002-2005)

Intellectual Property Associate

Baker Botts, LLP New York, NY

(1998-2002)

Judicial Intern for Federal District Court Judge Kazen and Magistrate Judge Notzen

District Court for the Southern District of Texas -Laredo, TX   (Summer 1996)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (1991)

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Investigation of a Novel Technique for

Eliminating Phase Noise in an FDMA Lightwave Network

New York University, New York, NY (1993)

M.A. Economics

St. John’s University Law School, J.D. Jamaica, NY (1998)

Law Review, International Law Review; Civil Trial Institute, Associate Director of Trials