Partial Resume

INTERVIEWS:

Interviewed and quoted by the CNBC (television), Bloomberg News (television), NBC Connecticut (television), Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Forbes, MSN.com, C/Net, C/Net Japan, TechTV, C|Net News.com, United Press International, Reuters, BNN Business News Network television, CNN.com, CNN Money, MSNBC.com, ManagingIP; E-Commerce Times, Technology News World, Washington Times, KRLD Radio, Rightalk.com Internet Radio, The American Lawyer, National Law Journal, Legal Times, New York Law Journal, San Francisco Recorder, Latin American Advisor, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, Barrons, Science and Nature magazines, Technology Review, ACM Tech News, ComputerWorld, ECT News Network, Linux News, MacNews World, Technology News, Dallas Business Journal, Washington Business Journal, Austin Business Journal, Baltimore Business Journal, Triangle Business Journal, Tampa Bay Business Journal, Business First of Columbus, Ohio, Albany Business Review, Philadelphia Business Journal, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Puget Sound Business Journal, Boston Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times, Pacific Business News, Genome Technology, Biotechnology Healthcare, Biotech Tech, BiomedicalNanotechnology, Pharmaceutiques, BioCentury, Energy Biz Insider, The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law, and other publications on regulatory, technology, and intellectual property issues and in various foreign journals in China, Japan, India, France, Russia, Hungary and other countries.

SPEECHES:

Inaugural Speaker, “Entrepreneur Lessons from Microsoft: Deal or no deal,” Fredericksburg Inventors Network, Fredericksburg, Virginia, March 3, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “Famous Deals in History and Lessons for Today: Bill Gates and Microsoft,” Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, Intellectual Property Section, February 24, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “The Story of Patents: Part 1,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, February 23, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “The History of Technology,” George Mason University, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, February 16, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “Famous Deals in History: Lessons for Today,” DC Technology Transfer Society, February 16, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “What is Intellectual Property?”, University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, February 2, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “Famous Deals in History: Lessons for Today,” George Mason University, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, January 25, 2022.

Featured Speaker, “The History of Intellectual Property, Part 1: Patents,” Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Council, National Institute for Health (NIH) Licensing Forum, January 11, 2022.

Moderator and Speaker, with guests the Honorable Randall Rader, former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Rader Group, Professor Adam Mossoff, George Mason University, Chris Israel and Timothy Lee, “Threats to Innovation in America,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, December 14, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Trade Secrets 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, December 8, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest Dr. Hans Sauer, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President, Intellectual Property for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), “The Current Assault on Biopharm Patents: From Biden to Geneva,” including presentation on Patents and Pandemics, Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, November 19, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Trademarks Laws 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, November 10, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Famous Tech Deals in History, Lessons for Today,” Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Council, National Institute for Health (NIH) Licensing Forum, November 2, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Copyright Laws 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, October 21, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Patent Law Primer and Update for 2021,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, October 13, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest Gillian Fenton, Senior Counsel, GSK Vaccines, and President of the Licensing Executives Society, “Principles of IP Strategy,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, October 12, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “The Fundamentals of Intellectual Property,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, September 16, 2021.

CLE Program Speaker, A Primer on Intellectual Property Law: The Basic Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, September 14, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest James Malackowski, Chief Executive Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC, “IP Transaction Ecosystem: An Update on Market Activity,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, September 9, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Assignor Estoppel in Patent Challenges and a Recent Supreme Court Decision, Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. et al. (2021)” Maryland State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, August 26, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest Josh Malone, US Inventor, Fellow, “Bursting Balloons: One Inventor’s Legal Battle and the Lessons Learned,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, August 24, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Assignor Estoppel in Patent Challenges and a Recent Supreme Court Decision, Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. et al. (2021)” Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Council, National Institute for Health (NIH) Licensing Forum, July 20, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest James Pooley, “Management of Trade Secret Assets,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, July 15, 2021.

Speaker, “United States v. Arthrex,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Reston, Virginia, June 21, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “The History of Technology,” Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society, with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at George Mason University and the OLLI Personal Computer User Group (OPCUG), June 19, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest S. Gregory Boyd, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit, “Video Game Licensing – The Worst Mistakes I Ever Made,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, June 16, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guest Joseph Allen, President, Bayh-Dole Coalition and Founder, Allen and Associates, “The Great COVID Patent Giveaway Threatens Our Tech Transfer System,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, May 25, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “The History of Intellectual Property, Part 1,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, May 18, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guests Dr. Raymond Damadian, Chairman of the Board, FONAR Corporation; Andrew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and former Commissioners Bruce Lehman, Partner, Lehman Nilon & Associates and Chairman of the Board International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), David Kappos, Partner, Cravath, Andrei Iancu, Partner, Irell and Manella, and Michelle Lee, Vice President, Amazon Web Services; the Honorable Kathleen O’Malley and former Chief Judge, and the Honorable Paul Redmond Michel, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Frank Cullen, Vice President of U.S. Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center; Professor Adam Mossoff of George Mason University; Gillian Fenton, President and Chair, Licensing Executives Society and Senior Counsel, GSK Vaccines, and Dana Robert Colarulli, Executive Director, Licensing Executives Society International, “World IP Day Celebration,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, April 26, 2021.

Speaker, “The Importance of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks for SMEs,” with Professor Adam Mossoff of George Mason University, World IP Day Celebration, April 26, 2021.

Speaker, “Google v. Oracle,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Reston, Virginia, April 19, 2021.

Moderator and Speaker, with guests Paul Redmond Michel Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Professor Adam Mossoff of George Mason University, “Willful Infringement and the Injunction Presumption: eBay Reconsidered,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, April 13, 2021.

CLE Program Speaker, Famous Tech Deals in History, Lessons for Today,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, April 13, 2021.

Featured Speaker, “Famous Tech Deals in History, Lessons for Today,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, March 11, 2021.

Moderator, with guest Anthony Alder, “Invention and Commercialization of Innovations in Australia,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, February 18, 2021.

Featured Presenter. “Patent Law Primer and Update for 2021,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, February 11, 2021.

CLE Program Speaker, “Patent Law Primer and Update for 2021,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, February 4, 2021.

Moderator, with guest the Honorable Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, “Fireside Chat with Andrei Iancu,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, December 11, 2020.

CLE Program Speaker, “The Basics of Intellectual Property,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, December 1, 2020.

Moderator, with speaker Professor Adam Mossoff of George Mason University on “Patents, Politics and the Pandemic,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, November 4, 2020.

Featured Presenter. “The History of Technology: From fire to fiber optic,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, November 2, 2020.

CLE Program Speaker, “Primer on Trade Secrets Law: The Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, September 17, 2020.

Featured Presenter. “Trade Secrets 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, September 16, 2020.

Moderator, with speaker David Kappos on “The impact of constricted statutory subject matter on critical areas of innovation such as diagnostics, genetics, artificial intelligence,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, September 8, 2020.

CLE Program Speaker, “Primer on Trademark Law: The Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, August 5, 2020.

Featured Presenter. “Trademarks 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, July 16, 2020.

CLE Program Speaker, “Primer on Copyright Law: The Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, July 7, 2020.

Featured Presenter. “Copyrights 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, June 17, 2020.

Panelist, Roundtable Discussion of Estoppel, Forum Selection, Discretionary Denial: Where Does the PTAB Stand?, “PTAB and Forum Selection and Assignor Estoppel,” webinar presentation jointly with the Licensing Executives Society, American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL), and the D.C. Patent Lawyers Club, May 27, 2020.

Featured Speaker, “Deals in History, Lessons for Today,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter national webinar event, May 21, 2020.

Featured Presenter. “Patents 101,” University of Maryland UM Ventures, Business Fundamentals Workshop, May 14, 2020.

CLE Program Speaker, “A Primer on Copyright Law: The Basic Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, January 23, 2020.

Speaker, “Intellectual Property and Patent Prosecution for Scientists,” Graduate Program course, Advanced Studies in the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, October 1, 2019.

CLE Program Speaker, “Intellectual Property Basics: Patent Overview,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, September 18, 2019.

Featured Speaker, Invention-Con 2019: the Place for Inventors, Makers, & Entrepreneurs, USPTO Inventors Conference, September 13-14, 2019, panel with Chris Katopis, Deputy Chief Communications Officer, United States Patent & Trademark Office, and Steven H. Heller, The Brand Liaison, on “Licensing: Understand why and when to license your ideas, United States Patent & Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, September 14, 2019.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property in 2019: the Basics and an Update,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, May 31, 2019.

Moderator and Speaker, “Symposium on Patenting in 2019,” Licensing Executives Society, with Laura A Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO, Robert Held, LES President, Mark Lauroesch, Executive Director at Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Sanjay Prasad, Dr. Everado Ruiz, Managing Director, Energy Transition Partners, Prof. Ken Porter, Director, UM Ventures – College Park at the University of Maryland, Washington, DC, January 23, 2019.

Featured Speaker, “The Historical Significance of Patents,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC, January 23, 2019.

Featured Speaker, “Dos and Don’ts for Patent Prosecution in the United States,” Bayerischer Patentanwaltsverein, Bavarian Patent Lawyers Association, Munich, Germany, November 28, 2018.

Moderator, “2018 Patent Damages Symposium,” Licensing Executives Society, with Steve Crenshaw, Cooley LLP, Dr. Jennifer Vanderhart, John Jarosz, Analysis Group, Stephen Holzen, Stout Risius Ross, Jeff Stec, Berkeley Research Group, Washington, DC, September 27, 2018.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property in 2018: the Basic Tools for you to know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, May 4, 2018.

Featured Speaker, Inspiring Stories of American Creativity, WERA FM 96.7 broadcast radio station interview with host John Craig, March 29, 2018.

CLE Program Speaker, “A Primer on Intellectual Property: The Basic Tools for You to Know,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, February 1, 2018.

Speaker, “Oil States and the Constitutionality of IPR,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Reston, Virginia, January 22, 2018.

Featured Speaker, “Top Ten IP Issues 2017,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, December 7, 2017.

Panelist, “ROI and Intellectual Property” 2017 Return on Investment Symposium, Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA), Military Health System, NOAA Auditorium and Science Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, October 11, 2017.

Featured Speaker, “Introduction to Intellectual Property Law,” Graduate Program course in Technology Transfer, Advanced Studies in Technology Transfer, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, September 19, 2017.

Featured Speaker, “Making IP Great Again: Recent Developments and Future Prospects,” Charlotte Chapter Licensing Executives Society Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 22, 2017.

Co-Presenter, “The Constitutional Foundations of IP – A Natural Rights Perspective,” with Randolph May, Washington, DC Chapter Licensing Executives Society Meeting, Washington, DC, July 20, 2017.

Panelist, “Manufacturing, Production and Licensing: What are the Options for Getting a Product Manufactured?,” Virginia Small Business Development Center, Virginia Community Business Partnership and TechShop, Arlington, Virginia, June 23, 2017.

Featured Speaker, “Protecting Technology, Brands, Books and Secrets,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, May 5, 2017.

Featured Speaker, World Intellectual Property Day Observance at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The History of Technology and Intellectual Property – Innovation Improving Lives,” Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2017. Presentations with Michelle Lee, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary Commerce et al..

Featured Speaker, “Navigating Your IP in the United States: Recent Developments and Future Prospects,” Toronto Chapter Licensing Executives Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 19, 2017.

Moderator and Speaker, “Patent Damages Symposium,” Licensing Executives Society, with Ryan Morris, Sidley & Austin, Dr. Jennifer Vanderhart, Analytics Research Group, Dr. Robert L. Vigil, Analysis Group, Inc., Washington, DC, February 23, 2017.

Featured Speaker, “Top Ten IP Cases of the Year,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Maryland, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Section, Rockville, Maryland, November 1, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “Copyrights for the Creative Community,” Montgomery County Media, Rockville, Maryland, September 13, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “Strange Brew: Alcohol and Intellectual Property,” Maryland State Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Ocean City, Maryland, June 17, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “Ten Things You Should Know About IP in 60 Minutes,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Annual Meeting, Rockville, Maryland, April 22, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “Beyond the Alice Event Horizon: the Spaghettification of Software Patenting,” Licensing Executives Society, Cloud Services and Software Subcommittee, CLE webinar presentation, April 14, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “The Basics of Intellectual Property: Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret and Antitrust,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, February 20, 2016.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, January 15-16, 2016.

Speaker, “Ten Things Engineers and Innovators Need to Know About IP,” University of Texas at Dallas, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, Dallas, TX, January 14, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “The Basics of Intellectual Property: Patents, Part 2,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, December 1, 2015.

Featured Speaker, “The Basics of Intellectual Property: Patents, Part 1,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, November 11, 2015.

Featured Speaker, “The Basics of Intellectual Property,” the Bar Association for Montgomery County, Rockville, Maryland, October 6, 2015.

Featured Speaker, “Patent Legislation 2015,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, May 18, 2015.

Reunion Speaker, “Lions, Tigers and Patent Trolls Oh My!,” University of North Carolina, School of Law, Van Hecke-Wettach Building, Alumni Weekend CLE program, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (substitute for Prof. John Conley), May 2, 2015.

Speaker, “The Evolving Protection of Software Innovation,” University of North Carolina, Computer Science Department, 50^thAnniversary Symposium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 2, 2015.

Moderator and Speaker, “To Kill a Patent System: What Would Atticus Finch Do?,” Licensing Executives Society, with former Commerce Under Secretary and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson, Washington, DC, March 11, 2015.

Workshop Instructor, with Sanjay Prasad, Licensing Executives Society (LES) introductory intellectual property licensing course, “PDS 100: Commercializing Technology through the Power of IP Licensing,” “Intellectual Property Law Basics,” “Basics of IP Commercialization & Licensing,” “Determining Reasonable Licensing Fees and Royalty Rates,” and “Managing Risk,” Washington, DC, March 11, 2015.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, January 16-17, 2015.

Featured Speaker, “IP in 2014: the Good, the Bad and the Idiotic,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, December 15, 2014.

Webinar Moderator and Speaker, “Office of Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade Administration,” with George York, Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, and Stevan Mitchell, Director, Office of Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, joint meeting with Licensing Executives Society, and the LES Washington, DC Chapter, Washington, DC, November 12, 2014.

Featured Speaker, “The Social and Historical Importance of Intellectual Property in Society,” joint meeting with the Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC Chapter, Patent Lawyers Club of Washington, DC, Association of Computing’s Washington, DC Chapter, and Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Washington, DC, July 23, 2014.

Television Commentator, NBC News Connecticut, Troubleshooters Show with Len Besthoff, on “The Patent Troll Trouble,” July 9, 2014.

Featured Speaker, “Engineering of the Movies” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, June 25, 2014.

Moderator and Speaker, Licensing Executives Society Observance of World Intellectual Property Day, “A Celebration of Movies and Movie Technology: Edison to today,” Washington, DC, April 30, 2014. Presentations with former Chief Federal Circuit Judge Paul Michel et al.

Featured Speaker, World Intellectual Property Day Observance at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “Movies: A Global Passion,” Alexandria, VA, April 28, 2014. Presentations with Michelle Lee, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary Commerce et al.

Featured Speaker, “Current Status of Patenting” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, April 21, 2014.

Testimony at the United States Patent & Trademark Office, on behalf of the Inventors Network of the Capital Area, on a Notice of Rulemaking regarding “Changes to Require Identification of Attributable Owner,” March 13, 2014.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, January 17-18, 2014.

Keynote Speaker, “The Importance of Intellectual Property: from the beginnings to today and the future,” IP Leadership Forum 2014, New Delhi, India, January 9, 2014.

Moderator and Speaker, “Second Annual Forum on Patents and the Public Good,” Licensing Executives Society, with former Chief Judge Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Professor Adam Mossoff of George Mason University, and Teresa Stanek Rea, former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property & Former Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC, December 4, 2013.

Workshop Instructor, with Kathy Rosa of Shenandoah Consulting, Licensing Executives Society (LES) introductory intellectual property licensing course, “PDS 100: Commercializing Technology through the Power of IP Licensing,” “Intellectual Property Law Basics,” “Basics of IP Commercialization & Licensing,” “Determining Reasonable Licensing Fees and Royalty Rates,” and “Managing Risk,” Washington, DC, October 8, 2013.

Television Commentator, Bloomberg Television, In the Loop with Betty Liu Show, interview with Megan Hughes, on “The Apple versus Samsung Patent Wars,” August 9, 2013.

Featured Speaker, “Adventures of Being a Patent Attorney” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, July 22, 2013.

Moderator and Speaker, “Secrets of Working with the Far East for Life Sciences Companies,” Washington and Baltimore Chapters of the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) in association with the Indian Biomedical Association; Johns Hopkins University, Rockville Campus, June 4, 2013.

Featured Speaker, “Alice In Patentland,”An Analysis of the Fractured Federal Circuit Opinion,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC, May 22, 2013.

Moderator and Speaker, “Recent Court Decisions Affecting Licensing,” Licensing Executives Society, with Patrick O’Reilley, Washington, DC, May 22, 2013.

Moderator and Keynote Speaker, World Intellectual Property Day Observance at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “Creators and Creativity,” Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2013. Presentations with Teresa Rea, U.S. Under Secretary Commerce et al.

Featured Speaker, “Copyrights” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, April 15, 2013.

Featured Speaker, “Final Implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011: The End of First to Invent” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, February 25, 2013.

Moderator and Speaker, “The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act – Part 4,” Licensing Executives Society, Reston, Virginia, February 21, 2013.

Faculty Presentation, “An Overview of Intellectual Property Law and Practice,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, January 18-19, 2013.

Webinar Featured Speaker, “Unwrapping the New USPTO Professionalism and Ethics Rules: An Overview of What’s in Store,” with Rodney Caldwell, Board meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, VA, January 16, 2013.

Featured Speaker, “Patents and the Public Good” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, November 26, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act – Part 3,” Licensing Executives Society, Reston, Virginia, November 16, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “Patents and the Public Good,” Licensing Executives Society, with Chief Judge Randall Rader and former Chief Judge Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC, November 14, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “Issues of Professionalism and Ethics in Intellectual Property,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC, October 25, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act – Part 2,” Licensing Executives Society, Reston, Virginia, October 11, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “The Growing Threat Due to Cybertheft of Intellectual Property,” with Richard LaMagna, Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC, September 12, 2012.

Featured Speaker “Strategies for Claiming and Prosecuting Patents Under Section 101 in the Changing Patent Landscape,” Joint meeting of the Patent Lawyers Club of Washington and the Northern Virginia Patent Lawyers Club, September 11, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, “The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act – Part 1,” Licensing Executives Society, Reston, Virginia, August 2, 2012.

Moderator and Keynote Speaker, World Intellectual Property Day Observance at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The Importance of Innovation and Intellectual Property in America,” Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2012. Presentations with Teresa Rea, U.S. Under Secretary Commerce, James Pooley, Deputy General Director of Patents, World Intellectual Property Organization, and others, with theme “Visionary Innovators.”

Webinar Featured Speaker, “Patent Prosecution Red Flags,” The Business Development Academy, February 28, 2012.

Featured Speaker, “Patents and Technology: from Fire to Firestorm,” Patent Lawyers Club of Washington, Washington, DC, February 22, 2012.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property in the Third Millennium,” Bar Association of Montgomery County, Rockville, MD, February 15, 2012.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property in the Third Millennium,” Sisters in Crime Writers’ Group, Arlington, VA, February 4, 2012.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the Third Millennium,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, January 27-28, 2012.

Moderator and Speaker, Ethical Issues Under the AIA and Risk Management, “Ethical Issues Confronting Patent Attorneys Under the America Invents Act: Supplemental Examination and Oaths/Declarations,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Las Vegas, NV, January 25, 2012.

Moderator, New Patent Reform: the Impact of the AIA, Licensing Executives Society, December 16, 2011.

Webinar Featured Speaker, “Patent Licensing and Legal Conflicts,” Licensing Executives Society, December 14, 2011.

Moderator and Speaker, Valuation and Damages Course, “Perspectives of the Value of Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century, and the Impact of the 2011 America Invents Act,” Licensing Executives Society, Washington, DC, December 7, 2011.

Moderator and Speaker, “Patent Eligibility and Indefiniteness,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC, October 20, 2011.

Featured Speaker, “Perspectives of the Value of Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century, and the Impact of the 2011 America Invents Act,” Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, October 18, 2011.

Moderator and Speaker, “Patent Reform: Paradigms Lost,” Licensing Executives Society, with Former Chief Federal Circuit Judge Paul Michel, Washington, DC, October 14, 2011.

Featured Speaker, “Patent Reform: Bane or Boon?” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia. Presentation with Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law at George Mason University, Tysons Corner, VA, July 18, 2011.

Moderator and Keynote Speaker, World Intellectual Property Day Observance at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The Importance of Innovation and Intellectual Property in America,” Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2011. Presentations with Teresa Rea, U.S. Under Secretary Commerce, James Pooley, Deputy General Director of Patents, World Intellectual Property Organization, and John Duffy, Professor of Law at George Washington University.

Featured Speaker, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The History of Innovation and Intellectual Property in America,” World IP Day, Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2011.

Featured Speaker, “The History of Innovation in America,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, July 18, 2011.

Keynote Speaker, State Department, “Intellectual Property Law in the United States: a Historical and Cultural Perspective,” International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State,, Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: A Project for Pakistan, Washington, DC, December 6, 2010.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property in the Crosshairs at the Supreme Court,” 2010 Technology Transfer and Innovation Forum, Washington, DC, November 17, 2010.

Featured Speaker, “The Bilski Decision: Helpful or Harmful to Inventors?,” Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Falls Church, Virginia, July 19, 2010.

Featured Television Speaker, “NTP’s Assault on Apple, Google and High Tech.” BNN Business News Television Network, Washington, DC, July 9, 2010.

Speaker and Moderator, “The Implications of Bilski,” Licensing Executives Society, Reston, Virginia, July 7, 2010.

Webinar Coordinator and Moderator, “The Impact of Bilski on the Future of Licensing,” Licensing Executives Society, July 1, 2010.

Ethics Speaker, “Conflicts of Interest: the Idiotic and the Sublime,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring Meeting, New York, New York, May 7, 2010.

Workshop Instructor, Licensing Executives Society (LES), Around the World with LES, “PDS 100: Commercializing Technology through the Power of IP Licensing,” “Intellectual Property Law Basics,” “Basics of IP Commercialization & Licensing,” “Determining Reasonable Licensing Fees and Royalty Rates,” and “Managing Risk,” National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, April 26, 2010.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the 21^st Century,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, April 9-10, 2010.

Featured Speaker, State Department, “Intellectual Property Law in the United States: a Historical and Cultural Perspective,” International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State, Intellectual Property Rights: A Project for the People’s Republic of China, Washington, DC, March 8, 2010.

Workshop Instructor, “Intellectual Property Law for Biodefense,” Tulane University, Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, Annual Meeting, Covington, LA, October 22, 2009.

Moderator and Speaker, “Emerging Technologies Challenges,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Emerging Technology and Foreign Law Committee, San Diego, CA, May 14, 2009.

Podcast Speaker, “The Future of Software, Business Method and Emerging Technology Patenting,” Maryland State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, March 25, 2009.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property Protection for Engineers and Businesspeople,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, Texas, March 20-21, 2009.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property for Engineers,” Texas Tech University, Department of Engineering, Lubbock, TX, February 13-14, 2009.

Moderator, panel on “Bilski, Nuitjen and Beyond: Section 101 in the Crosshairs,” Licensing Executives Society, Greater Washington DC Chapter, June 26, 2008.

Faculty Presentation, “Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century,” Texas Tech University, Department of Engineering, Lubbock, TX, April 11-12, 2008.

Faculty Presentation, “The Ethics of the Nanotechnology Movement,” Texas Tech University, Department of Engineering, Lubbock, TX, April 12, 2008.

Faculty Presentation, “Trade Secrets and Antitrust,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, March 1, 2008.

Faculty Presentation, “The History of Technology and Intellectual Property,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, February 29, 2008.

Keynote Speaker, “Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century,” International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, January 31, 2008 (keynote address to over two dozen international dignitaries from across the world).

Moderator, panel on “Budgeting: How to Get Your Bills Paid Promptly,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Phoenix, AZ, January 25, 2008.

Speaker, “Update on Issues in Nanotechnology: the Science and Ethics,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Emerging Technology Committee, Washington, DC, January 25, 2008.

Moderator, panel on “New Clients, New Work and New Hires – Do Conflicts or Ethics Preclude Them?,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC, October 18, 2007.

Legal Commentator, “Viacom v. YouTube: Statutory Copyright Damages and Mitigation,” BNN Business News Television Network, Washington, DC, September 12, 2007.

Keynote Speaker, State Department, “Building Stronger Intellectual Property Rights in Moscow: A Comparison of the United States and Russia,” Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, May 21, 2007.

Speaker, “Nanotechnology Ethics: Considerations in the Medical Arena,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Biotechnology Committee, Washington, DC, May 11, 2007.

Legal Commentator, “Ethical Dimensions to Nanotechnology,” The Fourth International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, April 21, 2007.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Climbing the Great Wall: protecting Software and Business Methods in China,” IP Practice in China Seminar, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC, April 11, 2007.

Featured Speaker, “Building Stronger Copyright Enforcement in Beijing: A Comparison of the United States and China,” Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, April 2, 2007.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Developing a Strategy for Claiming and Prosecuting Software Patents in the Changing Patent Landscape,” Software IP Strategy Summit, Palo Alto, CA, February 20, 2007.

Moderator, panel on “Foreign Counsel Relationships: Managing the Differences,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC, October 20, 2006.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “The History of Technology Through Patents,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, October 13, 2006.

Legal Commentator, “Telematics in the Workplace: Blackberry Mania,” CNBC television’s Morning Call show, New York, New York, September 5, 2006.

Legal Commentator, “Supreme Court and Legislative Update on Patent Rights,” Defenders of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet radio, June 8, 2006.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Breaking Down Organizational and Cultural Barriers: Legal Issues Impacting Licensing Negotiations in Europe,” Association of University Technology Managers and the Licensing Executive Society, Spring meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 10, 2006.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Dynamic Changes in Biopharmaceutical Industry – Challenges and Opportunities: Procedures for Launching a Generic Drug in the United States,” Beijing International Pharmaceutical & Chemical Intellectual Property Forum (Bioforum), Beijing, China, April 26, 2006.

Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property Disputes in the United States,” Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, April 26, 2006.

Featured Speaker, “Strategies for Chinese Companies in the United States International Trade Commission 337 Action Cases,” Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong District of Shanghai, April 18, 2006; Shenzhen WTO Affairs Center, Shenzhen, April 20, 2006; China (Shan’xi) Association of Productivity Promotion Centre and Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, April 21, 2006; and Daoxianghu Park, Haidan District of Beijing, April 25, 2006 (series of lectures with Judge Paul Luckern of the USITC on 337 actions and their impact on Chinese and other companies, and with Chris Israel, Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce, Beijing).

Faculty Member and Speaker, “The History of Technology and Law: From Fire to Fiber Optics,” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, October 21, 2005.

Featured Speaker, “The Social and Ethical Dimensions of the Nanotechnology Movement,” Southern Methodist University, Maguire Center of Ethics, October, 20, 2005.

Legal Commentator, “Intellectual Property Update,” Defenders of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet radio, June 16, 2005.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Regulations and Marketing of Biomedical Devices: Legal and Ethical Challenges,” Third International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester, New York, June 6, 2005.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “East Meets West: Comparisons of United States and Chinese Patent Systems,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, IP Practice in the Far East Committee and the China Intellectual Property Society (CIPS) Joint Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 10, 2005.

Conference Co-chair, 2005 World Computer and Internet Congress, Computer Law Association, Washington, DC, May 5-6, 2005.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Bioinformatics: the Intersection of the Life Sciences and Information Technology” and “Pharmacogenomics: the Power of Genomic Information,” 2005 World Computer and Internet Congress, Computer Law Association, Washington, DC, May 6, 2005.

Legal Commentator, “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster: Copyright Under Siege,” Defender’s of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet Radio, April 14, 2005

Legal Commentator, “Legal Issues for Chinese Startups and Other Companies Operating in the United States,” China Access Forum 2005 and Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, Washington, DC, April 8, 2005.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Bots Gone Wild: Some Observations and Speculations on Nanotechnology,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2005.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Evolving Best Practices: Strategic Intellectual Property Protection in the New Economy,” Law Seminars International: IP Licensing Transactions, Atlanta, GA, December 3, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Telematics: The Drive to Distraction,” The 2004 Annual European Congress, Computer Law Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 19, 2004.

Speaker, “United States International Trade Commission Section 337 Actions: A Weapon in the Arsenal of U.S. Companies,” Rochester Fall CLE Program, Rochester, NY, November 5, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “International Transactions Involving Outsourcing Technology,” Law Seminars International, Reston, VA, October 15, 2004.

Moderator and Sponsor, “The Business Case for Diversity in Biotechnology IP Law” and “Access Issues Associated with Drug Development,” BIO Intellectual Property Counsels’ Committee Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, October 5, 2004.

Panelist, “PTO Roundtable,” BIO Intellectual Property Counsels’ Committee Fall Meeting (with Biojudiciary Project), Boston, MA, October 5, 2004.

Featured Speaker, “Law and Procedure of 337 Patent Litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission: Strategies for Chinese Companies,” China University of Political Science and Law, International Cooperation and Exchange Center, Beijing, China, September 23, 2004; Zhejiang Provincial Senior WTO Center, Hangzhou, China, September 24, 2004; and Xiamen University, International Economic Law Institute, Xiamen, China, September 27, 2004 (series of lectures with Judge Paul Luckern of the USITC on 337 actions and their impact on Chinese and other companies)

Featured Speaker, “Antitrust and Industrial Property: Weighing the Balance,” Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, September 22, 2004.

Speaker, “Size Does Matter: Nanotechnology and the Law,” National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 13, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “International Transactions Involving Technology Exports and Imports,” Law Seminars International, Atlanta, GA, June 25, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Patenting Nanotechnology: Big Patents for Small Inventions,” Advanced Biotechnology & Chemical Patent Practice Seminar, American Intellectual Property Law Association, St. Louis, MO, June 18, 2004.

Moderator, “Intellectual Property Enforcement in Latin America,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Dallas, TX, May 14, 2004.

Moderator, “Nanotechnology: the Emerging Legal Landscape of the Small,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Dallas, TX, May 14, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “The 2004 World Computer and Internet Law Congress: Nanotechnology Licensing—the New Frontier,” Computer Law Association, Washington, DC, May 6, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Licensing Little Things: Practical Concerns in Nanotechnology” and “The Future of Technology Transfer,” European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN), Fifth EIPIN Congress, Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (CEIPI), École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), April 2–3, 2004, Strasbourg, France.

Faculty Member and Co-Moderator, “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century: Weighing the Balance,” Second Conference of the Americas: Electronic Commerce: Progress and Development, joint meeting of the Computer Law Association and the Instituto Latinoamericano de Alta Tecnología, Informática y Derecho (ILATID), Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 6, 2004.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Nano-Biotech Patenting: Riding the Wave of the Bio-Nanotechnology Revolution,” speaker on U.S. litigation, patenting, regulatory, and privacy concerns for a conference sponsored by EuroLegal, London, England, October 21, 2003.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Size Does Matter: Nanotechnology and the Law,” The Legal and Business Forum on Nanotechnology, speaker on litigation and patenting concerns in nanotechnology innovation, Boston, MA, June 16, 2003.

Moderator, panel on the “Basics of Trademark Prosecution and Disputes How-To,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Atlanta, GA, May 15, 2003.

Speaker, “Intellectual Property-New Legal Developments and Today’s Critical Issues,” The 2003 World Computer and Internet Law Congress, Computer Law Association, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2003

Faculty Member and Speaker, “The Economics of Lost Profits Damages,” Eighth National Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes,American Conference Institute, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA, February 19-20, 2003 and March 10-11, 2003.

Featured Luncheon Speaker, “Recent Developments in Business Method Patenting,”

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, New York, NY, January 31, 2003.

Speaker, “Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge,” American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., October 30, 2002.

Speaker, “Intellectual Property Rights: a U.S. Perspective,” Post Graduate Degree Program in Intellectual Property for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, in Washington, D.C., October 18, 2002.

Speaker, “Intellectual Property Issues in Developing Countries,” George Washington University, Department of International Business, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2002.

Legal Commentator, “The Long and Winding Road of Equivalents: the Relevance of Festo to United Kingdom Practitioners,” Speaker on U.S. law for a seminar sponsored by The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, London, England, September 18, 2002.

Radio Legal Commentator, “Intellectual Property Issues within Universities,” Eye on the Internet show on KRLD, Dallas, TX, May 20, 2002.

Television Commentator, “The Balance Between Pharmaceutical Patents and the Public Good,” John Dvorak’s Silicon Spin television show on TechTV, broadcasted on February 19, 2002.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Legal Issues Concerning Internet Startups,” El negotio de las Technologias de Información en las Americas: Una actualización al año 2002/The IT business in the Americas: An update toward year 2002, Computer Law Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2001.

Speaker, “Intellectual Property and World Commerce,” George Washington University, Department of International Business, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2001.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Current Issues in Copyright Law,” University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Houston and Dallas, TX, July 27, 2001 and August 3, 2001.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Issues on Trade Secrets, Software and Business Method Patents, and Patent Litigation,” Managing the Global Digital Information Technology Explosion, Computer Law Association, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2001.

Speaker, “Fencing Off the Open Space of Algorithmic Intellectual Property,” North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Dallas, TX, April 26, 2001.

Speaker, “Historical Overview of Software Patenting in the United States,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Latin America Committee, Boca Raton, FL, January 30, 2001.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Current Issues in Copyright Law”, University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Dallas and Houston, TX, July 14 and 21, 2000.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Litigating Business Method Patents”, The 17th Annual Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, Seattle, WA, June 2, 2000.

Speaker, “Principles of Intellectual Property Law for the Computer Science Industry”, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, November 12, 1999.

Faculty Member and Speaker, “Software Patenting Issues,” Joint Meeting of the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations, New York, NY, April 17, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS:

Google v. Oracle: Fair Use?, Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, The Bar in Brief, Vol. 69, Issue 3, pages 12-13, September 2021

Googlexification, Maryland State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, Newsletter, pages 2-4, June 2021

Silent Summer: What COVID-19 Means for the Class of 2020, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, posted April 6, 2020

The Patent Whisperers, Viewpoints, the Newsletter of the Licensing Executives Society, Volume XXVII No. 3, pages 3-4, September 2019 issue

A Paean to Pi, LinkedIn, posted March 14, 2019

In Support of Inaugurating February 7 as ‘World e Day,’ article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, February 7, 2019, and An Ode to e on LinkedIn, posted February 7, 2019

The Categorical Imperative for Innovation and Patenting, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, July 17, 2018, on LinkedIn, posted July 17, 2018

The Patent System and Quantum Mechanics: Two Uncertainties, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, May 29, 2018, and article on LinkedIn, posted May 29, 2018

Happy Birthday Patent System: Hope Springs Eternal, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, April 10, 2018, and article on LinkedIn, posted April 10, 2018

Oils States: a Very Slippery Slope, article on LinkedIn, posted April 24, 2018

How Not to Copy: What is Fair and What is Fair Use?, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, April 5, 2018, and article on LinkedIn, posted April 5, 2018

Inspiring Stories of American Creativity, http://www.WERA.fm 96.7 broadcast radio station interview with host John Craig, March 29, 2018, and article on LinkedIn, posted April 5, 2018

World Pi Day: 3/14 — The Ongoing Mystery of Pi, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, March 14, 2018, and article on on LinkedIn, posted March 14, 2018

Copyright and the Game of Thrones, article on LinkedIn, posted September 4, 2017

Roberts Rules of Order, article on LinkedIn, posted May 31, 2017

TC Heartland v. Kraft – Bye Bye Texas?, on LinkedIn, posted May 22, 2017

The Transcendence of Pi, article on LinkedIn, posted March 14, 2017

Silent Spring for Patents, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, March 9, 2017, and article on LinkedIn

Alice Doesn’t Patent Here Anymore, article on LinkedIn, posted September 9, 2015

Happy Birthday U.S. Patent System: A milestone for the country, article on LinkedIn, posted April 10, 2015

To Kill a Patent System: What Would Atticus Finch Do?, article on LinkedIn, posted March 13, 2015

Myanmar and the United States: Two Tales of Copyright Piracy, article on LinkedIn, posted December 11, 2014

Shark Tank and Trade Secrets, article on LinkedIn, posted December 10, 2014

Shark Tank and the Types of Patents, article on LinkedIn, posted November 26, 2014

Game of Patent Thrones, article on IPWatchDog.com intellectual property website, September 10, 2014

Dreams of Our Forefathers, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, April 18, 2014

Happy Birthday to the Patent System, IP Watchdog.com intellectual property website, April 14, 2014

Playing Fair in the Patent game, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, October 28, 2013

Breaking Bad Patents, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, October 1, 2013

Patenting Future Cures – Or Not, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, June 14, 2013

Patenting the Sun, Featured Article; Law360 and IP Law360; June 3, 2013

The New Patent Paradigm: Caveat Inventor, Maryland State Bar Association Newsletter, Bar Bulletin, page 11, March 15, 2013

Caveat Inventor: The New Patent Paradigm, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, March 14, 2013

Planting Seeds for an Injustice, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, February 26, 2013

Getting to the Root of Patent Exhaustion, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, February 19, 2013

Software Patents Shrugged, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, October 16, 2012

An Apple Judgment Today Keeps Infringement at Bay, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, August 13, 2012

50 Shades of Patenting: Third-Party Submissions, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, July 25, 2012

Alice in Patentland, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, July 13, 2012

Patents Shrugged Redux, Technology Law Corner, Featured Guest Column with Dr. Raymond Damadian, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, June 16, 2011

Bilski Brouhaha: Supreme Court Keeps Stevens at Bay, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, July 1, 2010

Conflicts of Interest: the Idiotic and the Sublime, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring Meeting, New York, New York, May 7, 2010

The Audacity of Patent Reform, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, March 6, 2009

Harry Potter and the Deathly Derivative, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, September 8, 2008

Quantum Slippage: The First Sale Doctrine in the 21^st Century, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times andTechnology News World, June 9, 2008

Patents in the Balance, Featured Article, Bloomberg Law Reports, Intellectual Property, Vol.2, No. 14, April 7, 2008, and Corporate Law Journal, May 2008

No April Fools Joke: Patents in Peril, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, April 1, 2008

Patent Exhaustion: Supreme Court Fatigue, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, January 11, 2008

Patents Shrugged, Technology Law Corner, Featured Guest Column, IP Law360, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, October 30, 2007

Supreme Court Signals Balance Shift in Licensing Patents, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, January 30, 2007

Obviousness Not so Obvious, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, November 29, 2006

Functional Economics: The New Language in Computing Lost Profits, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Quarterly Journal, Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2006

Millions of Patents and Patent Applications Dodge a Bullet, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, June 26, 2006

eBay Ruling Puts Patent Rights Under the Microscope, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, May 16, 2006

Blackberry, Patents and the Public Good, Technology Law Corner, E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, April 3, 2006

Sing a Song for your Blackberry, ComputerWorld, January 25, 2006

What is the Significance of Brazil’s Stance on Open-Source Software?,

Commentary, Latin American Advisor, February 10, 2005

Bots Gone Wild: Some Observations and Speculations on Nanotechnology,

American Intellectual Property Law Association, Orlando, FL, January 26, 2005

Patent Enforcement in Latin America, R. Van Dyke et al., American Intellectual Property Law Association, Latin America Committee, May 15, 2003

Software Patents, Procuring and Enforcing, Patent Resources Group, R. Van Dyke et al., Contributor re Bioinformatics, April 2003

Deep Pockets, Clear Heads Lead to Biotech Success, Building Biotech Column, Baltimore Business Journal, April 11, 2003

Biotech Growth in 2003: The Catalysts for Success, Industry Focus Column, Washington Business Journal, March 28, 2003

E Wars – Episode One: The Patent Menace, Volume VII, No. 2, Computer Law Review and Technology Journal, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Winter 2003.

Patent Enforcement in Latin America, R. Van Dyke et al., American Intellectual Property Law Association, IP Enforcement in Latin America Committee, May 15, 2003.

Functional Economics: The New Language in Computing Lost Profits, Conference Proceedings of the Eighth National Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes, American Conference Institute, Washington D.C. and San Francisco, CA, February 19-20, 2003 and March 10-11, 2003

The Law of the Internet, National Business Institute, Conference Proceedings, R. Van Dyke and J. Band, January 2003.

Trade Secrets: Protecting Intangible Assets, Thinking Judicially column, Biotech Tech magazine, November 2002.

Weighing the Balance, report on hearings of the Federal Trade Commission and

Department of Justice on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy, AIPLA Antitrust Committee, October 25, 2002.

Supreme Court ruling of great value to patent holders, Expert Opinion, Washington Business Journal, July 26, 2002.

Festo: The Supreme Court Preserves the Value of Patents, but Increases the Risk of Litigation, Decision of Note, The Intellectual Property Strategist, June 2002.

Patent Rescue, Points of View, LegalTimes, June 3, 2002.

Business Method Patents: Too Much for Too Few, White Paper and Testimony on behalf of SAS Institute for their testimony before Congress, March 19, 2002.

Patents and the Public Good, feature article for TechTV’s Silicon Spin show, February 19, 2002.

How Big are Patents? High Court must choose between two visions of a good IP system, Points of View, LegalTimes, January 7, 2002.

The Birth of an Internet Company: Web Site Development Agreements and Domain Names, Conference Proceedings of the Computer Law Association program on El negotio de las Technologias de Información en las Americas: Una actualización al año 2002/The IT business in the Americas: An update toward year 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2001.

The Copyright Done Gone: The Challenge to Copyright Ownership and Exclusive Rights, Conference Proceedings of the University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Houston and Dallas, Texas, July 27, 2001 and August 3, 2001.

Trade Secrets: Facing the Inevitable, Conference Proceedings of the Computer Law Association program on Managing the Global Digital Information Technology Explosion, May 4, 2001.

Business Method Patents: Taming a New Frontier, Conference Proceedings of the Computer Law Association program on Managing the Global Digital Information Technology Explosion, May 4, 2001.

Copyright Law: Ownership and Transference Rights, Conference Proceedings of the University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Dallas and Houston, TX, July 14 and 21, 2000.

E Wars, Conference Proceedings of the 17^th Annual Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, June 2, 2000, Seattle, WA (later version published in the Winter 2003 Computer Law & Technology Journal of Southern Methodist University).

Software Patents Offer Opportunities and Obstacles, May 24, 1999, Special Article to the National Law Journal.

Intellectual Property Law for the Health Care Provider, Vital Signs, Spring 1997.

File Not Found: the Controversy in Software Patents and the Search for Prior Art, Conference Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations, April 17, 1996, New York City.

Drawing the Line Between Legal Tying and Patent Misuse, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, R. Van Dyke et al., 1993 and IDEA, 1993.

Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics in Dentistry, Dentistry ’87, December 1987.

Software Protection and the Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Computer Science Department, 1987.

CCCShell: Command Correcting C-Shell (software engineering project team leader), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Computer Science Department, 1987.

PARD: Prototype Atomic Relational Database, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Computer Science Department, 1986.

Near Eastern and Anatolian Influences on Hesiod’s Theogony, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1985 (Honors Program Thesis in Ancient Greek literature and poetry).

LEGAL TEACHING

2000 – 2020 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, Dallas, Texas, Adjunct Professor, LYLE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, taught classes to graduate, undergraduate, professors, and visiting scientists and students, and business professionals on “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century,” covering the basics of intellectual property, i.e., patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and antitrust, as well as the history of technology and law, intellectual property and technology law.

2015 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at DALLAS, SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, Visiting Professor,Taught class to graduate, undergraduate, professors, and visiting scientists and students, and business professionals on “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century,” covering the history of technology and law, and intellectual property and technology law.

2008 – 2010 TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, Lubbock, Texas, Adjunct Professor,Taught classes to graduate, undergraduate, professors, and visiting scientists, students, and business professionals on Nanotechnology, Ethics and “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century,” covering the history of technology and law, and intellectual property and technology law.

2003 – 2006 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW, Washington, DC, Adjunct Professor. Taught classes on “International and Comparative Patent Law,” covering the underlying principles of an intellectual property system, international treaties and institutions, dispute resolution and international obligations, such as regarding the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and covering various international controversial areas, such as traditional knowledge, genetic resources and patent scope across the world.

2004 UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, FRANCE, Visiting Professor, EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INSTITUTES NETWORK Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriete Industrielle (CEIPI) Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) Taught class on Licensing and Technology Transfer, particularly concerning emerging technology innovations, such as nanotechnological advancements.

AWARD:

Patent Buddy’s 2011 Top Patent Prosecutor Award.

MEMBERSHIPS:

American, Federal, Federal Circuit, Washington, New York, Texas,

District of Columbia, Maryland and Montgomery County Bar Associations, Member.

Licensing Executives Society: Management Council (2022-present) Senior Vice President, Chair, Special Events Committee (2022-present)Chair, Greater Washington, DC and Northern Virginia Chapter (2004-present); Chair, Advisory Council for Greater Washington, DC Chapter (2016-present); Annual Meeting 2022 Committee, Program Selection Subcommittee (2021-2022)Public Policy Committee (2011-present); Emerging Enterprises Committee (2015-present);Spring 2017 Planning Committees (2016-2017);Annual 2019 Planning Committee (2018-2019); andDallas Chapter President (2000-2001).

Intellectual Property Owners, Member, Counterfeiting and Piracy Committee, former Inventor of the Year Committee, former Nanotechnology Committee (Subcommittee Chair for Patent).

American Bar Association, Member, Alice Task Force

Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, Chair, Intellectual Property Section (2014-2018)(2021-present). Head, Intellectual Property Basics courses (2015-present)

Maryland State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section Programs Chair (2017-present)

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA): Fellows (2017-present), Membership Committee Liaison; Membership Committee (2018-present) Harmonization Committee (2019-present), Online Programs Committee Liaison; Nominations Committee (2014-2015); IP Law Associations (2013-2016); Chair, Professionalism and Ethics Committee (2010-2013); Diversity Committee (Native American) (2012-present); Chair, Emerging Technology Committee (2006-2010);Chair, Latin America Committee (2001-2006); Member, Professional Programs Committee (2002-2019); and Subcommittee Chair, Biotechnology Committee, Public Policy (liaison with BIO).

New York and New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Associations, Member.

Patent Lawyers Club of Washington, Officer (2014-present), Member (2010-present).

Inventors Network of the Capital Area, Member and Frequent Speaker (2012-present), and outside Counsel (2016 to present)

International Technology Law Association (formerly the Computer Law Association), Board of Directors (2003-2006); Planning Advisory Committee.

Federal Circuit Bar Association, Amicus Committee.

Biotechnology Industry Organization, former Member and former Firm Sponsor; Federal Relations, Sponsoring and Intellectual Property Committees; ongoing team leader in BIO Legislative Fly-In program and meet with U.S. Senators and Representatives (2003-present) and advocate for BIO intellectual property and trade positions.

National Italian American Bar Association, Member (2018-present)

International:

Washington, DC Intergovernmental Group Advisory, Board member.

World Affairs Council, Washington, DC, Member.

International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers’ Association, Member, Association

Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI).

Trade:

Foresight Institute, Member;

Institute of Nanotechnology, Associate Member;

International Trademark Association;

Washington International Trade Association;

International Intellectual Property Society;

Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V. (German-American Lawyers Association);

Optics Society,

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Washington, DC Chapter; Board member (2012-2015)

Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), Washington, DC Chapter;

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); and IEEE Computer Society.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Admitted: New Jersey State, 1990; New York State, 1991; Texas State, 1997;

District of Columbia, 2002; and Maryland State 2011;

United States Supreme Court;

United States Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Circuits;

United States District Courts for the District of Maryland, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York,

District of New Jersey and the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas;

Federal Court of Claims; and Court of International Trade.

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 34,746 (1990).

Studio Technician and Producer, Montgomery County Media 2015.

DELEGATIONS

United Nations, World Intellectual Property Organization, Seventeenth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), , Geneva, Switzerland, delegate representing the American Intellectual Property Law Association. December 6-10, 2010

United States – Japanese Patent Office Liaison Council, Washington, DC and Licensing Executives Society Delegate (2012-present).

Board Member, Washington, DC Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (2014-2016)