-1- 1201 Third Avenue Suite 4900 Seattle, WA 98101-3099 PHONE: 206.359.8664 [email protected]EDUCATION DePaul University, College of Law, J.D., with honors, 1982 Lead Articles Editor, DePaul Law Review, 1980-81 DePaul University, non- degree course work in Computer Science, 1984-86 Rice University, B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), 1976 Jerry A. Riedinger | Partner AREAS OF EMPHASIS Patent infringement cases Trade secret cases Complex intellectual property litigation OVER 34 YEARS EXPERIENCE CONDUCTING PATENT LITIGATION REPRESENTED CLIENTS IN MORE THAN 110 PATENT LITIGATION MATTERS LEAD COUNSEL IN 66 PATENT LITIGATIONS FIRMWIDE CHAIR, PATENT LITIGATION PRACTICE, 2006-2009 AWARDS & HONORS Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year 2016, Intellectual Property Litigation, Seattle Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year 2015, Patent Litigation, Seattle, WA Managing Intellectual Property, 2015 Washington Litigator of the Year Selected as a Washington “Super Lawyer” by “Washington Law and Politics,” 2000 - 2015 Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year 2012, Patent and Copyright, Seattle, WA Top 100 Lawyers in Washington, 2008-2011, “Washington Law & Politics” Top Lawyers in the Puget Sound Region, 2013, “Seattle Business” Repeatedly listed in The Best Lawyers in America Listed in Chambers USA “America's Leading Business Lawyers” (2005 - 2014) Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubble 1 1992 – 2014 Burton Award, The Doctrine of Equivalents, 2006 REPRESENTATIVE CASES Won a $100 million-plus damages award in a sharply contested, 7-day pharmaceutical trade secret arbitration, representing Anacor Pharmaceuticals adverse to Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2013). Won an award of more than $200,000 in attorney fees against a non-practicing entity plaintiff on behalf of Nintendo (D. Md. 2012) Won a jury finding of obviousness of all asserted claims of a commercial speaker patent for Audio Products International (2003). Won a jury finding of infringement in a competitor case, with the jury awarding 150% of the requested damages, on behalf of Acres Gaming, Inc. (2001). Won summary judgments of non-infringement on behalf of Nintendo in cases brought by non- practicing entities Fenner Investments (E.D. Tex., 2009), IA Labs (D. Md. 2012) and UltimatePointer (W.D. Wash. 2014). 1 (AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies).
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Banner & Allegretti, Ltd. (formerly Allegretti & Witcoff, Ltd.), Chicago
Equity Partner, 1991-95;
Junior Partner, 1986-91;
Associate, 1982-86
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
Supreme Court of Illinois (1982) Supreme Court of Washington (1996) U.S. Supreme Court (1986) Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1983) Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002) Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois (1991) U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1982) U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1991) U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (1996) U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1996) U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2000) Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1982, Reg. No. 30,582).
PRACTICED IN THE FOLLOWING FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS
District of Arizona Central District of California2
Northern District of California2
Southern District of California District of Delaware2
Northern District of Georgia District of Idaho Northern District of Illinois Southern District of Indiana Eastern District of Louisiana Western District of Louisiana
Eastern District of Michigan2
District of Maryland2
District of Massachusetts
District of Minnesota2
District of Nevada2
District of New Jersey
Northern District of New York Western District of New York
Southern District of New York2
Northern District of Ohio
District of Oregon2
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Middle District of Tennessee2
Eastern District of Texas Northern District of Texas Southern District of Texas Western District of Texas District of Vermont
Eastern District of Washington
Western District of Washington2
Eastern District of Wisconsin
Western District of Wisconsin2
2Trials or evidentiary hearings
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
President, Seattle Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, 2010-11
Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. General Signal Corp., No. B-79-340(PCD) (D. Conn.)
AM International, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co., No. 80 C 4016 (N.D. Ill.)
Amazon.com, Inc. v. Barnesandnoble.com et al, No. C99-1695P, 73 F.Supp. 2d. 1228 (W.D. Wa.)
** Anchor Gaming et al. v. Acres Gaming, Inc., No. CV-5-99-00245-LDG (LRL) (D. Nev.)
* Androphy v. Zimmer, Inc., No. H 92-1289 (S.D. Tex.)
** ARCzar, LLC and GeoVector Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc., No. 3:13-cv-02672-WHO (N.D. Cal.)
** Axia, Inc. et al. v. Northstar Tool, Inc., No. 03C 5932 (N.D. Ill.)
Baker Rock Crushing Co. v. Pacific Rock Products, No. CV 98-1139 AS (D. Ore.)
* Balivi Chemical Corp. v. JMC Enterprises, Inc. et al, No.1:07-cv-00353-BLW (D. Id. Carl Schenk A.G. v. Nortron Corp., 570 F. Supp. 810 (M.D. Tenn. 1982), 713 F.2d 782 (Fed. Cir. 1983)
** Semitool, Inc. v. Dynamic Micro Systems Semiconductor Equipment GMBH, 444 F.3d 1337 (Fed. Cir. 2006)
** Water Fun Products Corp. v. ProSlide Technology, Inc., No 2006-1560 (Fed. Cir. 2007).
** Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd, et al., 369 Fed. Appx. 132 (Fed. Cir. 2009)
** IA Labs CA, LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. et al., 515 Fed. Appx. 892 (Fed. Cir. 2012)
** UltimatePointer LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. et al, ____ F.3d ____, 2016 WL 798354 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 1, 2016)
* Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushinko Co. Ltd., No 95-1066 (Fed. Cir. 1995) Amicus Brief on Behalf
of the Washington State Bar Association
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PUBLICATIONS
“Markman Twenty Years Later: Twenty Years of Unintended Consequences,” 10 Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts (2015)
Book Chapter: “The Doctrine of Equivalents,” Chapter 24 of the “Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook, 2nd Ed.” Bureau of National Affairs, 2005-2010.
“The Future of the Doctrine of Equivalents,” 21 ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Newsletter 1 (Fall 2002) (selected as one of “The Best Articles Published by the ABA” in 2002 and reprinted at 20 GP Solo 40 (2003)).
“Internet Wars, Suits Over Business-Method Patents Are an Established Part of the Environment,” 9 Washington Journal, No. 37 (Sept. 11, 2000) & 24 Colorado Journal, No. 38 (Sept. 13, 2000)
“The Role of Juries in Patent Infringement Cases After Warner-Jenkinson,” 15 ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Newsletter 3 (Spring 1997).
“Patent Litigation Fundamentals,” CLE presentation, 1995 ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (Reprinted in 6 The Practical Litigator 77, November 1995)
Note, “Jurisdiction Under 28 U.S.C. § 1343 Does Not Include Statutorily Based Claims of Welfare Rights Deprivation,” 29 DePaul L. Rev. 883 (1980)
LECTURES (WITH PAPERS)
“Patent Year in Review 2015,” March 2016, CLE Presentation as part of the Washington State Bar Association
2015 IP Institute, Seattle, WA
“Markman: Twenty Years Later,” March, 2015, CLE Presentation as part of the Washington State Bar Association 2015 IP Institute, Seattle, WA
“Patent Year in Review 2010,” March, 2010, CLE Presentation as part of the Washington State Bar Association 2010 IP Institute, Seattle, WA
“Patent Law For Digital Technology Companies: Is it Going Backward or Forward?” December 2009, CLE Lecture as part of LSI’s 18th Annual Seattle Conference on Current Developments in Technology Law, Seattle, WA
“IP Ethics Potpourri – Commonly Arising Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property,” September and October 2008, CLE presentations as part of the PLI 14th Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
“Is It A (Good) Software Patent or A (Bad) Business Method Patent? A Brief Exploration of Patents Covering The
Good, The Bad And The Obvious,” September 2007, CLE presentation at the 2007 IPO Annual Meeting, New York, NY
“Proving Infringement of Internet Business Method Patents, Legalities and Practicalities,” January 2006, CLE
presentation at the 2006 AIPLA Midwinter Institute, Palm Springs, CA
“Software Patent Litigation: Causes and Strategies,” December, 2005, paper by J. Riedinger, CLE presentation by
R. Al-Salam at the 2005 Law Seminars International Technology Law Conference, Seattle, WA
“Ethics for Litigation Counsel: Knowing When to Say ‘No,’” November, 2004, CLE seminar on litigation ethics
presented by Law Seminars International, Seattle, WA
“Ethical Issues for Litigation Counsel,” September 2004, CLE presentation as part of the Law Seminars International
conference on Early Stage Patent Litigation, Chicago, IL
“Patent Marking and Notice of Infringement: How to Lose Your Suit Before it Begins,” November 2002, CLE
presentation as part of PLI’s Eighth Annual Institute for Intellectual Property Law, San Francisco, CA
“Developments Affecting Patents,” March, 2002, CLE presentation as part of the WSBA 7th Intellectual Property
Institute, Seattle, WA
“Internet, Ecommerce and Business Method Patents, 2002,” January 2002, CLE presentation as part of the 2002
National CLE Conference on Intellectual Property Law, Steamboat Springs, CO
“Patent Damages: Strategies and Practicalities,” November 2001, CLE presentation as part of PLI’s Seventh Annual
Institute for Intellectual Property Law, San Francisco, CA
“Ethics in Patent Litigation: Common Pitfalls, Problems and Practicalities,” November, 2001, CLE presentation as
part of the Law Seminars International Fifth Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Litigation, San
Francisco, CA
“Pitfalls and Practicalities in Means and Step-Plus Function Clauses, The Continued Evolution of 35 U.S.C. § 112
¶ 6,” February 2001, CLE paper as part of the John Marshal Law School 45th Annual Conference on Developments
in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago, IL
“Federal Circuit Review,” January, 2001, CLE presentation as part of the 2001 National CLE Conference on
Intellectual Property Law, Vail, CO
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LECTURES (WITH PAPERS) CONT’D
“Litigating Business Method Patents,” July, 2000, CLE Presentation as part of the ABA IPL Section Program on
“Business Method and E-Commerce Patents: Essential Tips, Trends and Strategies for the High-Tech
Practitioner, ABA Annual Meeting, New York, NY
“Building Fences in Cyberspace: Business Method Patents and the Internet,” June 2000, CLE Presentation as part
of the PLI program on “Patenting the New Business Model; Building Fences in Cyberspace,” San Francisco, CA
“Drafting Patents: What Patentee’s Trial Lawyer Wants to See,” June, 2000, CLE Presentation as part of the ABA
IPL Section Annual Summer Conference, Boston, MA
“E-Commerce and Business Method Patents,” March 2000, CLE Presentation as part of the WSBA 5th Annual
Intellectual Property Institute, Seattle, WA
“Practice Strategy: Patent Term Guarantee, Provisional Rights, and 18-Month Publication,” February, 2000, CLE
Presentation as part of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law program on “Getting to
Know the New Patent Legislation, A Comprehensive Overview,” Crystal City, VA
“The First Forty-Five Days of Patent Litigation,” January 2000, paper for the 2000 National CLE Conference Session
on Intellectual Property Law, Vail, CO
“Writing Patent Claims for Litigation,” January 1999, CLE Presentation as part of the 1999 National CLE Conference
on Intellectual Property Law, Vail, CO
“Design Patent and Trade Dress Issues: Exclusive Rights In Product Configurations,” February 1999, Washington
State Bar Association Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Law Seminar, Seattle, WA
“Patent Misuse,” July 1999, Practicing Law Institute program on “Intellectual Property Antitrust, San Francisco, CA
“Making Patent Trials Interesting,” January 1998, CLE Presentation as part of the 1998 National CLE Conference
on Intellectual Property Law, Vail, Colorado
“Use of Independently Developed Subject Matter That is the Trade Secret or Patented Invention of Another,” June,
1997, CLE Presentation, ABA IPL Section Summer Conference, San Diego, CA
“Intellectual Property Aspects of Litigating Noncompetition Agreements,” February 1997, CLE Presentation,
Lorman Education Services, Seattle, WA
“Basics of Discovery for a Patent Defendant,” CLE presentation, 1993 ABA Annual Meeting, New York, NY
LECTURES (WITHOUT PAPERS)
“The Changing World of Patent Litigation,” CLE Lecture to the Washington State Patent Law Association, March
2016, Seattle, WA
“Trade Secrets Versus Patents, A Patent Litigator’s Perspective,” CLE Lecture as part of LSI’s program on
Technology Law, December 2015, Seattle, WA
“Navigating in Treacherous Waters: Plan Your Moves Carefully,” CLE Lecture as part of LSI’s program on Trade
Secrets, October 2015, Seattle, WA
“Licensing Trade Secrets,” CLE Lecture as part of LSI’s program on Advanced Concepts in Licensing IP and
Technology, August 2015, Seattle, WA
“What has Happened to Patent Value?”, CLE Lecture to the Licensing Executives Society, June 2015, Seattle, WA
“Ethical Obligations Surrounding Cloud Services and Technology,” CLE Lecture as part of LSI’s Program on Big
Data, April 2014, Seattle, WA
“Pending Patent Legislation: The Surge in Attempts to Destroy Trolls, PAE’s and NPE’s,” CLE Lecture as part of
the WSBA’s 19th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, March 2014, Seattle, WA
“Ethics & Intellectual Property,” CLE lecture as part of the WSBA 18th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, March
2013, Seattle, WA
“New Regulations Under the America Invents Act: How do They Affect Patent Prosecution, Licensing and Litigation?”
December 2012 Presentation as part of LSI’s 21st Annual Seattle Conference on Technology Law,
Seattle, WA
“Ethics for IP and IT Practitioners,” December 2011, CLE presentation as part of the Law Seminars International
20th Annual Conference on Technology and New Media Law, Seattle, WA
“What a Wild Year its Been: Bilski and Other Key Intellectual Property Law Developments of Importance to
Technology Companies,” November 2010, CLE lecture as part of the LSI Technology Law program, Seattle, WA
* “License or Litigate? Evolving Strategies,” November 2010, CLE lecture as part of the LSI program on Patent Law and Strategies for Digital Technology Companies, Seattle, WA
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LECTURES (WITHOUT PAPERS) CONT’D
“IP Lawyers and Ethical Issues,” September and October 2010, CLE lectures as part of the PLI 2010 Intellectual
Property Institute, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
“Recent Federal Circuit Decisions Affecting Licensing,” May 2010, Lecture to LES, Seattle, WA
“Legal Ethics in the Age of Information Mobility,” April 2010, CLE Lecture as part of the PLI program on Information
Law, San Francisco, CA
“The Shifting Tides of Inequitable Conduct,” March 2010, CLE Lecture as Part of the PLI 2010 Patent Law Institute,
San Francisco, CA
“Avoiding Malpractice Claims, and Best Practices,” January 2010, CLE Lecture as part of the AIPLA 2010 Mid-
Winter Institute, La Quinta, CA
“2009 Ethics Issues in Intellectual Property Practice,” September and October 2009, CLE lectures as part of the PLI
2009 Intellectual Property Institute, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
“KSR After Two Years, The Rebirth of Obviousness,” February 2009, CLE presentation at the ABA Mid-Winter
Meeting, Boston, MA
“Patent Exhaustion,” December 2008, CLE presentation to the Licensing Executives Society, Seattle, WA
“Patent Opinions,” November and December 2008, Multiple CLE lectures as part of the ACI program on
Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing, Boston, MA and Atlanta, GA
“IP Lawyer Ethical Issues,” September and October 2008, CLE presentations as part of PLI’s 14th Annual Institute on
Intellectual Property Law, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
“2008 Ethics Issues in Intellectual Property Practice,” March 2008, CLE presentation to the Linn Intellectual Property
Inn of Court, Chicago, IL
“Ethical Issues for Intellectual Property Lawyers,” October 2007, CLE presentation as part of PLI’s 13th Annual
Institute on Intellectual Property Law, San Francisco, CA
“The Effect of eBay on Permanent Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases,” March 2007, CLE presentation at the WSBA
12th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, Seattle, WA (paper by R. Al-Salam)
“Developing Effective – and Transferable – Deposition Skills,” March 2007, CLE presentation WSBA program on
“Protecting and Collecting: Advising Business Clients Victimized by Pirates and Counterfeiters,” Seattle, WA “Impact
of MedImmune on IP Licensing and IP Practice,” March 2007, CLE presentation to the KCBA IP Section,
Seattle, WA
“Judgments and Appeals: Claim Construction and Subsequent Proceedings,” January 2007, CLE presentation as part
of West Legalworks “Patent Claim Construction 2007: The Advanced Legal Forum,” Palo Alto, CA
“Ethics, Discipline, Legal Malpractice and the Intellectual Property Lawyer,” October 2006 and September 2005,
CLE presentations as part of PLI’s 11th & 12th Annual Institutes on Intellectual Property Law, San Francisco, CA
“Cost-Effective Pretrial Proceedings in an Electronic World: Discovery, Deposition, Requests to Admit, Motions,
Pitfalls & Risks,” September 2006, CLE Presentation at BNA's Patent Litigation Strategies Update, East Palo
Alto, CA
“Update on Patent Reform,” March, 2006, CLE Presentation in the WSBA 11th Annual Intellectual Property Institute,
Seattle, WA
“Spending Your IP Budget Wisely, Risk Management and Patent Enforcement for the Technical Executive,”
October, 2005, Seminar conducted for the AeA, Portland, OR
“Ethics Issues in IP,” April 2005, CLE presentation as part of the PLI conference on Handling Intellectual Property
Issues in Business Transactions 2005, Chicago, IL
“Joint Defense Agreements, Information Sharing Agreements, and Class Actions,” March 2005, CLE presentation as
part of the IPO conference on Patent Trolls and Patent Property Rights, Washington, DC
“Federal Circuit Court Decisions of 2004-2005 That Impact Patent Practice,” March 2005, CLE presentation in the
WSBA 10th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, Seattle, WA
“What Happens When You Get to Court: Typical Issues and Actions in Trade Secret Enforcement,” May 2004,
CLE lecture for NBI’s program on Trade Secrecy and Non-Competition Covenants in Washington, Bellevue, WA
“Top Ten Mistakes in Patent Cases,” December 2003, CLE presentation to the King County Bar Association
Intellectual Property Section, Seattle, WA
“Areas for Needed Changes or Clarification in Patent Law?,” November 2003, CLE presentation as part of PLI’s Ninth
Annual Institute for Intellectual Property Law, San Francisco, CA
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LECTURES (WITHOUT PAPERS) CONT’D
“Equivalents and Later Development, A Litigator’s Perspective,” July 2003, CLE presentation as part of the 2003 High
Technology Protection Summit, University of Washington Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual
Property, Seattle, WA
“Advanced Patent Prosecution Tips in View of Festo,” April 2003, CLE presentation as part of the ABA Section of
Intellectual Property Law 18th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, Washington, DC
“Avoiding Traps and Pitfalls in Markman Proceedings,” March 2003, CLE presentation as part of the WSBA 9th
Annual Intellectual Property Institute, Seattle, WA
“Patents: How Recent Developments Effect Enforcement and Drafting of Computer Patents,” December, 2002, CLE
presentation as part of the Law Seminars International Thirteenth Annual Seattle Computer Law Conference,
Seattle, WA
“Practice Under the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, a Litigator’s Perspective,” CLE presentation as part
of the ABA Intellectual Property Law Section program on Practical Tips on Patent Practice, April, 2002 in
Washington, DC and October, 2002 in San Francisco, CA
“Patent Litigation Strategy After Festo,” December 2000, CLE Presentation as part of the Law Seminars International
Eleventh Annual Seattle Conference on Computer Law, Seattle, WA
“Patent Litigation: Taking Advantage of the Emerging Federal Circuit Law,” September, 2000, CLE Presentation as
part of the Law Seminars International Fourth Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Litigation, San Francisco,
CA
“Pre-Litigation Matters, The Defendant’s Perspective” May, 2000, CLE Presentation as part of the ABA program on
“Practical Tips on Enforcing and Defending Patents,” Seattle, WA
“Trade Secret Protection,” December 1997, 1998 and 1999, CLE Presentations as part of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
Annual Seattle Conferences on Computer Law, Seattle, WA
“Intellectual Property, Issue Spotting for Non-IP Lawyers, Trade Secret and Copyright,” CLE Presentation as part of
the September, 1999 Boeing Legal Conference, Seattle, WA
“Plaintiff’s Patent Infringement Strategies Under the Hostile Case Law,” September 1999, CLE Presentations as part of
the Third Annual Intellectual Property Litigation Conference, San Francisco, CA
“Plaintiff’s Strategies Under The New Case Law,” April 1999, ABA IP Section 14th Annual Spring CLE Program
“Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law; Litigation and Corporate Practice,” Washington, DC
“Client Relations in Patent Infringement Actions,” September 1998, CLE Presentation as part of the ABA program on
“Practical Tips on Enforcing and Defending Patents,” Palo Alto, CA
“Patent Litigation Strategy in an Era of Federal Circuit Hostility to Patents,” September, 1998, CLE Presentation as
part of the “Intellectual Property Litigation Program,” Law Seminars International, Palo Alto, CA
“Recent Developments in Trade Secret Law,” June 1998, CLE Presentation as part of the ABA IPL Section 1998
Annual Summer Conference, Colonial Williamsburg, VA
“Pre-Trial Matters,” May, 1998, CLE Presentation As Part Of The ABA Program On “Practical Tips On Enforcing And
Defending Patents”, Dallas, TX
“Anticipation and Obviousness,” September 1997, CLE Presentation as part of the program “Rules of Engagement for
High Tech Legal Wars,” Law Seminars International, Palo Alto, CA
“Do We Need Federal Trade Secret Legislation?” 1992 AIPLA Annual Meeting, TS Committee, Crystal City, VA
LAW SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY SEMINARS
Guest Lecturer, Seminar on “Practical Evidentiary Problems in Intellectual Property Cases,” Franklin Pierce Law
Center, Concord, NH, January 1997 – January 2011.
Guest Lecturer, “Using Patents as a Starting Point for Engineering Design Projects,” Illinois Institute of Technology,
School of Engineering (1993-95), Chicago, IL
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PANEL DISCUSSIONS
“The Vanishing Civil Trial,” March, 2015, Seattle Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, Seattle, WA
Moderator, “ Collaboration vs. Warfare in the Technology Industry: The When and How of Licensing Alliances for
Cooperative Development and Protection Against Third Party Suits,” November 2010, LSI CLE program on
Strategies for Monetization and Protection Post-Bilski, Seattle, WA
“The State of Business Method Patents and Software Patents in Light of Bilski,” January 2010, 2010 National CLE
Conference, Vail, CO
“Practical Advice for the Patent Practitioner: A Panel Discussion of Recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit
Decisions,” September 2006, WSPLA, Seattle, WA
Moderator, “Fighting Against Patent Trolls: Limitations on Injunction and Damages,” July 2006, University of
Washington CASRIP 2006 High Technology Protection Summit, Seattle, WA
“The Vanishing Civil Trial: Be Careful What You Wish For,” March, 2005, District Meeting Of the Lawyer
Representatives from the Western District of Washington to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Seattle, WA
Moderator, “Writing Patents With Litigation in Mind,” April 2004, WSBA 9th Annual IP Institute, Seattle, WA
Moderator, “Grappling with Markman,” June 2001, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Annual Summer
Conference, Seattle, WA
“Enforcing Business Method Patents,” June 2001 Boston MCLE “IP Conference 2001,” Boston, MA
“The Implications of the CAFC’s Decision in Festo: A Group Discussion,” January 2001, National CLE Conference on
Intellectual Property Law, Vail, CO
U.S. PTO “Roundtable on Computer-Implemented Business Method Patents,” July 2000, Arlington, VA (invited by