Admitted
1991, North Carolina; U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
Law School
University of Cincinnati, J.D., 1991
Law School Graduation Year
1991
College
Wake Forest University, B.A., 1988
Memberships
North Carolina (Immediate Past Chair, Intellectual Property Section) and American (Member, Intellectual Property Section) Bar Associations; International Trademark Association (Board of Directors; Audit Committee Chair); USPTO (Subcommittee Chair); Institute of Trademark Attorneys (Overseas Member); North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Student Articles Editor, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1990-1991. Author: Works Made for Hire and the Copyright Act of 1976: We're Finally Back Where We Started, 59 U. Cinn. L. Rev. 299, 1990; False Advertising Claims and the Revision of the Lanham Act-A Step in Which Direction? 59 U. Cinn. L. Rev., 1991; Copyright Law: Integrating Successive Filtering Into the Bifurcated Substantial Similarity Inquiry in Software Copyright Infringement Cases: A Standard for Determining the Scope of Copyright Protection for Non-Literal Elements of Computer Programs, 14 Campbell L. Rev. 1, 1991; What IP Is All About, Legal Times, August 19 and 26, 1996; Protect Copyrights Early to Avoid Trouble Down the Line, Corporate Legal Times, November, 1996. Co-Author: Advanced Trademark and Trade Dress Issues in Computer Software Distribution, 1994 Computer Law Companion (Computer Law Association). (Trademark Attorney)