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B.S., Interdisciplinary Engineering, Purdue University, 1976

J.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979; Law Review
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Experience
- Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and contract litigation in Federal Courts

- Worldwide patent and trademark prosecution

- Licensing

- Alternative intellectual property dispute resolution

- Opinions of patent infringement, validity and enforceability

- IP portfolio management

- Selected as a 2004 Leading Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law
Bar Memberships
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

- Supreme Court of the State of Illinois

- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar

- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

- U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

- U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

- U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Technical Fields
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- Air Conditioners

- Automotive Oil Filters

- Bagel Formers

- Bolt Heaters

- Cement Manufacturing Kilns

- Chemical Dosing Equipment

- Concrete Forms

- Dehumidifiers

- Door Closers

- Dough Rounders

- Electrical Distributors

- Fasteners

- Flexible Pipe Connectors
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- Glass Melting Furnaces

- Induction Heaters

- Kitchen and Laundry Appliances

- Material Crushing Equipment

- Measuring Tools

- Micro Particle Identification Tags

- Panic Exit Devices

- Pizza and Tortilla presses

- Preforms for Plastic Molded Items

- Pumps

- Shotgun Accessories

- Valves

- Wheelbarrows
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