ADMISSIONS:

State Bar of Texas

State Bar of Louisiana

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. District Courts

Western District of Louisiana

Middle District of Louisiana

Practices

Intellectual Property Litigation

Patent Office Trials

Patent Acquisition

Strategic IP Counseling & Portfolio Management

Licensing, Monetization & Technology Transactions

Trademarks

Trade Secrets

Technologies & Industries:

Automotive

Consumer Products

Electronics & Robotics

Electrical and Computer Technology

Financial Services

Industrial Machinery and Heavy Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Medical Device

Oil & Gas

Semiconductor and Integrated Circuits

Telecommunication

Education:

J.D., University of Texas School of Law (2001)

With Honors

Presidential Scholarship

B.S.M.E., Louisiana State University, (1994)

Tau Beta Pi

Chancellor’s Alumni Fellowship

Pegues Fellowship

Experienced IP attorney representing corporate clients across a wide range of technologies, in all aspects of acquiring, managing, and exploiting intellectual property

Industry Experience

IP Counsel for Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., with responsibility for multiple business lines providing upstream Oil & Gas services, including Patent Acquisition, Litigation, Licensing Transactions, and more.

General Counsel and Patent Counsel for International Mezzo Technologies, Inc., a company specializing in heat transfer and management solutions for automotive, aerospace, and electromechanical systems, using microfabrication techniques to provide high performance at low-weight and volume.

Operations Engineer at Sematech, Inc., a research consortium of semi-conductor manufacturers, responsible for testing and qualifying next generation processing equipment to make the transition to 300mm wafers.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

Transactional

Continental Automotive GmbH – U.S. patent application filings and prosecution in automotive technologies.

Siemens AG – U.S. patent application filings and prosecution in automotive and automation technologies.

Microchip Technology Incorporated – U.S. patent application filings and prosecution in semiconductor and microcontroller technologies.

Dell – U.S. patent application filings and prosecution in computer technologies.

Covidien Ltd. – domestic and international patent application preparation and prosecution in medical device technologies.

Volkswagen AG – U.S. patent application filings and prosecution in automotive technologies.

Litigation

EnLink Technologies – U.S. patent portfolio enforcement related to geothermal heat exchanger technology, including district court litigation and interference proceedings before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Applica Consumer Products – ITC patent enforcement litigation related to automated litter box technology.

State Farm – U.S. Trademark enforcement and NPE patent litigation defense related to insurance trademark and technology.