Admitted: 2001, Virginia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Law School: Catholic University of America, J.D.
Member: Virginia State Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property Law Section); National Association of Patent Practitioners.
Biography: Engineer and Manager at Texas Instruments, Inc., 1983-1997. Manager at Raytheon Company, 1998-1999. Student Member, Advocacy for the Elderly Legal Clinic, 1998. Associate Member, Moot Court Association, and Competition Finalist, 1999-2001. Member, The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 1999-2001. Student Associate, Hunton & Williams, LLP, 2000. Author: "Means Claim Not Limited to Structure Common to Alternative Embodiments," Patent Strategy & Management (September 2000). Patent Agent, 2001. Associate Patent Attorney, Cooley Godward, LLP, 2002-2004. Associate Patent Attorney, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, 2005-2006. Author: "Evidence of Diligence in Interference Should be Viewed as it Would be by One Skilled in the Art," Last Month at the Federal Circuit (March 2006). Founded own patent practice, 2007.