Experience

• Worldwide patent and trademark prosecution
• Patent appeals
• Patent re-examinations, reissues and interferences
• Trademark appeals, oppositions and interferences
• Opinions of patent infringement, validity and enforceability
• Trademark counseling and defense
• Trade Secret counseling and defense
• Trade Dress counseling, enforcement and defense
• Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and contract litigation in Federal Courts
• Alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration
• Licensing
• Selected as a 2004 Leading Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law

Bar Memberships

• U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Supreme Court of the State of Illinois
• Trial Bar, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and other District Courts
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit

Professional Associations

• International Trademark Law Association
• Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago

Example Technical Fields

• Air Conditioners
• Aircraft and components
• Automotive Oil Filters
• Bagel Formers
• Bolt Heaters
• Cement Manufacturing Kilns
• Chemical Dosing Equipment
• Concrete Forms
• Dehumidifiers
• Door Closers
• Dough Rounders
• Electrical Distributors
• Fasteners
• Glass Melting Furnaces
• Induction Heaters
• Internet based business methods and software
• Kitchen and Laundry Appliances
• Material Crushing Equipment
• Measuring Tools
• Micro Particle Identification Tags
• Panic Exit Devices
• Pizza and Tortilla presses
• Preforms for Plastic Molded Items
• Pumps
• Shotgun Accessories
• Valves
• Wheelbarrows