MY OFFICE FOCUSES ON HELPING:
* INDIVIDUAL INVENTORS,
* SMALLER BUSINESSES, &
* SMALLER LAW FIRMS
IN ISSUES THAT RELATE TO PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS.
We understand the special needs of individual inventors, smaller commercial businesses, and smaller law firms who need help with issues related to patents, trademarks, or copyrights. My office gives you that special assistance.
My practice includes the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, trademark applications, and copyright registrations, intellectual property law litigation, and intellectual property licensing.
* * * GENERAL BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE * * *
ADMITTED TO:
• Missouri Bar
• Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit,
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri,
• United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri,
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,
• Missouri Twenty-First Judicial Circuit (St. Louis County), and
• Missouri Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit (St. Louis City).
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
• Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri - Juris Doctoris
• Law clerk for the Honorable Thomas A. Mummert, Federal Magistrate Judge in the
Eastern District of Missouri.
AUTHOR AND PRESENTER:
• “Recent Changes In Patent Law - Is Your Invention Still Patentable Subject Matter?"
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, St. Louis Chapter, November 2010;
• “Better Protection By Design” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2006
(co-author with Bryan K. Wheelock);
• “Executive Primer on Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition, Trademarks …and More!”
to the St. Louis Chapter of Exec-U-Net in July 2004;
• “Patent and Trademark Traps and Pitfalls for the Small Businesses”
St. Louis Small Business Monthly, July–August 2004;
• “Essentials of Intellectual Property Law,”
Chesterfield Rotary Club in September 2004; and
• “The Department of Defense Takes Aim At Military Contractors;
Should the Military Outgun Technical Manual Subcontractors to Take Their Copyrights?”
St. Louis University Public Law Review, Volume XX, Number two 2001.
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR:
• Washington University School of Law teaching courses in Intellectual Property Litigation and
Patent Prosecution; and
• St. Louis University teaching general intellectual property courses.
ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
• President and CEO of Laclede Engineering, Inc.;
• Project Manager for Emerson Electric, Electronics and Space Division, Government and Defense Group;
• Project Engineer for Southwest Mobile Systems;
• Director of Engineering for Zero Manufacturing; and
• Design Engineer for the Pauly Jail Building Company.
