Experience:

• Over twenty years experience of practicing intellectual property law
• Served as an engineer testing steam generators for the Trident Nuclear Submarine power plant.  
• Clerked for a Federal Judge at the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., with a docket of patent infringement cases brought against the Federal Government.
• Represented clients in Federal Courts in lawsuits involving utility patents, design patents, trademarks & copyrights, from pre-filing analysis and planning through petition before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Obtained preliminary injunctions on behalf of clients in several Federal Courts and helped resolve disputes involving domain names and other Internet-related issues. 
• Handled contested administrative proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including dozens of trademark opposition/cancellation cases and several patent interferences.
• Rendered opinions about the validity and infringement/non-infringement of patents, prepared patent applications as well as applications to register trademarks and copyrights and guided these applications through the relevant agencies of U.S. and foreign governments. 
• Negotiated and written agreements licensing patents, trademarks and copyrights, including those that arose from settlement of litigation. 

Member: American Bar Association; Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association (Former President)

Education: Fairfield University (B.S., Physics, cum laude); George Washington University (J.D., with honors)

Admitted to Practice: South Carolina; Washington, D.C.; New Jersey; U.S. Supreme Court