• Experience

    • Brings 15 years of practical engineering experience and 5 years of patent litigation support to his position as an attorney in the Firm's patent litigation department.  After earning a Bachelor's degree in physics (Franklin and Marshal College, magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in physics (University of Minnesota) he worked as a scientist and an engineer in the medical device and software fields. 
    • Has invented a line of surgical "seeing instruments," resulting in 5 patents and two license agreements.  Was awarded three National Institutes of Health research grants, totaling $575,000.
    • In 2003, passed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent bar exam, and joined Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. as a Science Advisor.
    Patents
    • 4,948,257 Laser Optical measuring device and method for stabilizing fringe pattern spacing
    • 5,512,034 Surgical instrument including viewing optics and a ball probe
    • 5,667,472 Surgical instrument and method for use with a viewing system
    • 5,667,473 Surgical instrument and method for use with a viewing system
    • 5,667,478 Surgical instrument with stick-on-fiber-optic viewing system and method of using
    • 5,735,792 Surgical instrument including viewing optics and an atraumatic probe
    • Science Advisor with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. for five years providing patent litigation support before becoming an associate.
    • 15 years of experience in medical and high-technology industries, with broad experience in many functional areas, including intellectual property, engineering, regulatory, sales and marketing.  Medical fields with experience include neurosurgery, pain management, orthopedics, vascular, and urology.

  • Recognition*

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    • Phi Beta Kappa

     
    *Being named to the list or receiving the award is not intended and should not be viewed as comparative to other lawyers or to create an expectation about results that might be achieved in a future matter.

  • Selected Case Results**

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    Prior- art searcher for In re Certain Flash Memory Controllers, Drives, Memory Cards and Media Players and Products Containing Same where the ITC determined that claim 8 of U.S. Patent Number 7,137,011 was invalid for obviousness.  (As a Science Advisor at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.)

    **Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and does not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

  • Publications and Speeches

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    Publications

    • The Year The AIA's Post-Grant Processes Took Hold
      Law360 (December 21, 2012)
    • Determination of the branching of the 1P1 Ba I level from studies of the intensity dependence of resonance fluorescence
      (November 30, 2006) (with D.A. Lewis, J. Kumar and G.W. Greenlees)
    • Experimental Neuroendoscopy
      In: Endoscopy of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System, Ed. by W. King, J. Frazee, A. DeSalles, Theime Medical Pub. pp. 237- 242 (1997) (with S.J. Haines, P.J. Camarata and J. vanden Hoek)
    • Prototype instruments for endoscopic microsurgery: Technical Note
      Poss: Minim Invas Neurosurg 38:167-169 (1995) (with S.J. Haines and P.J. Camarata)
    • Sub-Poisson, two-level behavior of three-level atoms prior to quantum jumps
      Phys. Rev. A; 40(3), 1704-1706 (1989) (with G.W. Greenlees, T.W. Hodapp and D.A. Lewis)
    • Real-time elimination of dead time and afterpulsing in counting systems
      Rev. Sci. Instrum. 59, 2457 (1988) (with G.W. Greenlees, T.W. Hodapp, and D.A. Lewis)
    • Poisson, sub-Poisson, and Bose-Einstein statistics in three-level atoms
      Phys. Rev. A 38, 773 (1988) (with G.W. Greenlees, J. Kumar, and D.A. Lewis)
    • Laser frequency offset synthesizers
      Rev. Sci., Instrum. 56, 66 (1985) (with D.A. Lewis and R.M. Evans)

    Speeches

    • Neuroscope 95 (Moderator)
      A lecture series on Neurondoscopy, AANS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1995)

  • In the News

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