Admitted
1977, Utah; U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Tenth and Federal Circuits; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Law School
J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D., cum laude, 1977
Law School Graduation Year
1977
College
Brigham Young University, B.S., Elec. Eng., cum laude, 1974
Memberships
Utah State Bar (Chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, 1985-1987); Federal Circuit and American (Member, Intellectual Property Law Section) Bar Associations; American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1993-1996); Founding Fellow, 2000—; President, 2003-2004 and Member, Board of Trustees, American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation, 2001—; Board of Directors, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1999—; Board of Directors, National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, 1998—; President-Elect, 2002-2003 and Chair, 2001-2002, National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations; United States Supreme Court Historical Society (Membership Committee, Utah State Representative, 1992-1994; Tenth Circuit Representative, 1993-1994).
Biographical
Honorary Member, Order of the Coif, 2002. Listed in: Best Lawyers in America, 1990—; Who's Who in American Law, 2000—; Who's Who in America, 1999—. Adjunct Professor, Intellectual Property Law, University of Utah College of Law, 1988-2000 and Brigham Young University Law School 1997-2002. Author: Scholarly Articles, Chapter 9 Functional Claim Drafting in the Electronics, Computer and Software Arts, BNA Treatise on Electronics and Software Patents: Law and Practice, 2000; Traversing the Section 112, Paragraph Six Field of Land Mines: Does In re Donaldson Adequately Defuse the Problems Stemming from Lack of Consistency In and Among the PTO and the Federal Circuit in Construing Means-Plus-Function Claims? Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, (Part I) Vol. 76, No. 12, 1994, (Part II) Vol. 77, No. 1, 1995; Practical and Legal Considerations in Drafting a U.S. Patent Application for Computer-Related Inventions, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1992). Other Publications: Advanced Electronic and Software Patent Practice Series: Drafting E-Commerce and Software Claims in View of Current Claim Interpretation Cases, AIPLA Tri-City Program for Washington, DC, New Orleans and San Francisco, April-June 2000; Understanding the American Inventors' Protection Act of 1999: Inter Parties Reexamination, Practicing Law Institute, San Francisco CA. Mar. 2000; Working With IP Counsel to Enhance the Asset Value of An IP Portfolio for a Small Business Enterprise, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Oct. 1999; Understanding Litigation Concerns When Enforcing 'Means or Step Plus Function' Claims, Patent Academy of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Aug. 1999; Taking It To the Bank: The Impact of State Street Bank on Protecting E-Commerce Software, AIPLA Spring Meeting, Chicago, Ill. Apr. 1999; Drafting Means-Plus-Function Claims, Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association, Fall, 1998; Drafting Means-Plus-Function Claims, Advanced Seminars on Claim Drafting, AIP