Honors

• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Intellectual Property, 2012
• Super Lawyers® Intellectual Property (Virginia) 2006; Intellectual Property (Washington, D.C.) 2007

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association — Patent Litigation Committee, Vice Chair; Special Committee on Patent Analysis and Opinions of Counsel, Past Chair
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Presentations

• The Changing Landscape for Patenting Software and Related Technologies
  Moderator and Speaker, 6th Annual PLI Patent Law Institute, New York and San Francisco (2012)
• Joint Infringement
  9th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute (2011)
• Enhanced Damages, Willfullness and the Adverse Inference Post-Seagate: How Much Has Really Changed?
  Moderator and speaker, 26th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, ABA Section, Washington D.C. (2011)
• Continued Importance and use of Opinions of Counsel Post Seagate and Broadcom
  28th Annual National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail (2011)
• Patentable Subject Matter and Practice Strategies in the Shadow of Bilski
  8th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute (2010)
• Drafting Patents With An Eye Toward Licensing
  American Intellectual Property Law Association, Mid-Winter Institute, La Quinta (2010)
• Willful Infringement Factors Post-Seagate: The role of opinions and analysis
  27th Annual National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail (2010)
• Strategic Use of Inter Partes Reexamination and Tactical Interplay with Patent Litigation
  BNA Audioconferences (2009)
• Life after Bilski
  7th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute (2009)
• Drafting and Using Opinions of Counsel in Light of Recent Federal Circuit Decisions
  3rd Annual PLI Patent Law Institute, New York and San Francisco (2009)
• PLI Patent Law Institute 2009
  Co-chair, 3rd Annual Patent Law Institute, Organized and co-chaired two day conference on a broad range of patent-related topics, New York and San Francisco (2009)
• IP Protection of Computer Software: The State of Copyright, Patent, and License Protection for Computer Programs
  American Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Boston (2009)
• Patenting Software and Business Methods: Bilski and Beyond
  Co-chair and moderator, 26th Annual National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail (2009)
• Sweeping Changes for Software, Business Method and Tax Patents
  6th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute (2008)
• Software and Business Method and Tax-Related Patents
  25th Annual National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail (2008)
• Drafting and Using Opinions of Counsel after Knorr-Bremse and Echostar
  5th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute, Denver (2007)
• Critical Analysis of New and Pending Patent Reform Legislation
  23rd Annual National CLE Conference, Aspen (2006)
• Patent Claim Construction in the Wake of Phillips
  Practising Law Institute Telephone Briefing (2005)
• Exporting Patent and Trademark Prosecution (It's not just manufacturing and IT moving overseas)
  2005 ABA Summer IPL Conference, San Francisco (2005)

Legal Updates

• Bilski v. Kappos: The Most Recent Event in an Ongoing Saga
  Intellectual Property Today (2010)
• In re Bilski: The Case of a Strange Statute or How the Federal Circuit Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Supreme Court
  The Computer & Internet Lawyer (2009)
• The Case for Seeking Legal Advice: The Federal Circuit's Knorr-Bremse Decision
  Managing Intellectual Property (2004)
• The Effects of the 'One-Click' Patent and Reversal of the Amazon.com Decision
  Intellectual Property Today (2001)
• State Street Sets Stage for New Patents, Battles
  The National Law Journal (1999)