Intellectual Property

IP Summit 2005 Speakers & Presenters

Daniel M. Friedman

Judge Friedman is a Senior Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He received his A.B. from Columbia College in 1937 and LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1940. His legal practice spans from private practice in New York, NY from 1940–42; legal staff, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1942, 1946–51; served in the U.S. Army, 1942–46; Appellate Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1951–59; assistant to the Solicitor General, 1959–62; second assistant to the Solicitor General, 1962–68; First Deputy Solicitor General, 1968–78; Acting Solicitor General, January–March 1977, nominated by President Carter as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Claims, March 22, 1978; confirmed by the Senate, May 17, 1978, and assumed duties of the office on May 24, 1978; as of October 1, 1982, continued in office as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, pursuant to §165, Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, Public Law 97–164, 96 Stat. 50.

Craig S. Jepson

Professor Jepson is a nationally known expert on patent law and practice. He teaches Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, and Biotechnology Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center. He was formerly associated with Seed and Berry of Seattle, WA; Stoel Rives of Portland, OR; and, Lyon & Lyon of Los Angeles. Prof. Jepson participated in some of the nation's pioneer biotechnology cases. The decisions from those cases are now classics in the field. Prof. Jepson has taught at the Univ. of Southern Maine, the University of Seattle, Williamette University, and the University of Southern California.

Education:
B.S., University of Southern California
M.B.A., Pepperdine University
M.T., Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
J.D., University of Southern California

Ned A. Israelsen

Ned A. Israelsen is the managing partner of the San Diego office of Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP. His practice focuses on intellectual property protection for chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical inventions, with particular emphasis in licensing, strategic positioning, due diligence reviews, and opinion work.

He received his BS in Chemistry from Utah State University, Magna Cum Laude, and graduated from GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool in 1981 with high honors. Prior to joining Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, Ned clerked for the Honorable Jack R. Miller of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

He was admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1979 and became a member of the Utah State Bar in 1981 and the California State Bar in 1984. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California in 1984, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982, and before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989.

He has authored several papers in the area of intellectual property law. He has lectured widely on the topics of patent law and the legal aspects of biotechnology at various conferences and symposiums. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Patent Law at Loyola University Law School, as a lecturer on Biotechnology Law at University of San Diego School of Law, and as an Adjunct Professor of Patent Law at California Western School of Law.

Lisa K. Norton

Ms. Norton practices primarily in the area of patent law. Her experience includes representing Fortune 500 and other companies on patent prosecution and litigation matters. In particular, Ms. Norton has focused in patents related to software and methods of doing business. Ms. Norton is skilled in a variety of U.S. and foreign patent prosecution issues. Her experience includes management of technology issues for United States Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT). She has also managed government affairs in the private sector, working on issues related to technology, computer security, and the Olympics.

Education:
J.D., Brigham Young University 1994
Editor-in-Chief, BYU Journal of Public Law
French Editor, BYU Law Review, Volume 993, Number 2 Issue
B.S., Brigham Young University 1991

Raymond Millien

Raymond Millien is presently Intellectual Property Counsel at American Express Company. Prior to that, he practiced in the Washington, DC offices of Piper Rudnick LLP (2001-2004) and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, (1997-2001) where he focused on all aspects of intellectual property law, including IP licensing and patent preparation and prosecution.

Mr. Millien is admitted to the New York, Virginia and District of Columbia bars, and is registered to practice before United States Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Millien was a software design engineer with the General Electric Company (1992-1994) and a graduate of their Edison Engineering Program.

Mr. Millien serves as a lecturer for the BAR/BRI® Patent Bar Review Course, has published several articles in the field of patent law, served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy at the George Washington University Law School and been a Professorial Lecturer of IP Law at the George Washington University School of Engineering. He has coauthored From Finals to the Firm: Top Ten Things New Law Firm Associates Should Know (Matthew Bender, 2003) and Little Blues: Building a Culture of IP within Small Tech Companies (Apress, forthcoming 2005).

Mr. Millien received his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School (1997) and his B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (1992).

Michael S. Labson

Mr. Labson is a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., practicing in the Food and Drug and Life Sciences groups. He represents pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and trade associations in their dealings with FDA, other regulatory agencies, Congress, and the courts. Mr. Labson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College (1989), and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1994), where he was an officer of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable David M. Bel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado.

John M. Smith

John M. Smith is an associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., practicing in the Food & Drug and the International practice groups. He assists pharmaceutical companies and a pharmaceutical trade association in their dealings with the FDA. Mr. Smith graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, and magna cum laude from BYU Law School, where he was lead articles editor of the BYU Law Review. Following law school, he and his wife Hannah clerked for the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in New Jersey.

Stephen L. Lundwall

Stephen Lundwall is a partner at Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP, one of the premier intellectual property firms in the nation. Mr. Lundwall's practice includes patent, trade secret and copyright litigation and counseling, antitrust and complex commercial litigation and counseling, as well as the negotiation of technology, product development and licensing agreements. Mr. Lundwall was formerly a partner at Goldstein & Healey, LLP where he did substantial contingency fee intellectual property work, a partner at Arnold White & Durkee LLP where he did substantial intellectual property and commercial litigation work, and an associate at the New York based law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Lundwall is a graduate of Brigham Young University Law School where he graduated magna cum laude and served as Executive Editor of the Law Review. He is married and has four children.

Douglas R. Bush

Mr. Bush has been counseling clients since 1986 in all areas of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. He has extensive experience with Internet and e-commerce related issues as well as considerable experience drafting complex agreements pertaining to intellectual property rights. Over the past several years, he has developed large scale programs for policing and tracking infringements on the Internet and dealing with them in a cost effective manner.

His multidisciplinary and international Intellectual Property practice includes assisting clients in selecting, registering, protecting and licensing marks around the world, and in drafting international agreements concerning intellectual property rights. Mr. Bush routinely deals with attorneys throughout the world and assists clients in registering and protecting their marks in virtually every country.

Mr. Bush has been involved in numerous proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and various state and federal courts. He is routinely involved in negotiating resolutions in such disputed matters, and has drafted a variety of agreements dealing with trademark and copyright interests. He has also been involved with filing and resolving numerous law suits dealing with Internet related infringements.

Mr. Bush has monitored developments pertaining to domain name governance and has made client and industry group presentations concerning trademarks in cyberspace as well as on other topics pertaining to trademarks and unfair competition. He has chaired conferences in both the United States and Mexico on various trademark topics. After graduating magna cum laude from law school in 1985, Mr. Bush served as a court law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Esther H. Lim

Esther Lim is a partner at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garret & Dunner LLP, and practices in the firm's Electrical and Computer Technology Practice Group. She specializes in district court and appellate patent litigation in all technologies, including computers, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Ms. Lim represents domestic and international clients, and assists with a wide range of patent issues, including pre-litigation counseling, opinions, and portfolio management.

Ms. Lim has lectured widely both nationally and internationally on issues relating to procurement and enforcement of U.S. intellectual property rights. She teaches Advanced Patent Law Seminar as an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law.

Ms. Lim served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to beginning her legal career, she gained experience as a Computer Programmer at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center.

Ms. Lim is actively involved with various bar associations, including serving as the current President of the D.C. Computer Law Forum. She is the Past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington D.C. Area and also serves on the Board of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, which represents the interests of over 40,000 attorneys.

Education:
University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 1995)
Towson University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1992).

Craig W. Dallon

Professor Dallon is an Associate Professor at the Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. He teaches courses on copyright law, trademark law, and tort law.

Professor Dallon received his B.A. in political science and graduated magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University in 1986. He received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, at Brigham Young University, in 1991. Following graduation from law school, he clerked in Olathe, Kansas for the Honorable James K. Logan, on the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1992-1997, Professor Dallon practiced law with the firm of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy in Salt Lake City, Utah and was a member of the firm's technology law practice group. Professor Dallon taught at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia from 1997-1999. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, at Brigham Young University, from 1999-2000. He has taught at the Creighton University School of Law since 2000.

Dr. Holger Adam

Dr. Adam is a partner at the Munich firm of Kraus & Weisert. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg. He began his career in IP law in 1994 and joined Kraus & Weisert in 2000. Mr. Adam specializes in pharmaceuticals, polymers, biochemistry and medical engineering. His extensive experience includes preparing and prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications and rendering numerous validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions regarding chemical and pharmaceutical patents. He also has a broad range of experience in opposition and appeal proceedings and successfully defended and attacked a large number of patents on behalf of his clients. Mr. Adam is a member of the group of attorneys at Kraus & Weisert presently defending Pfizer's Viagra patent in Europe.

Gregory D. Phillips

Mr. Phillips is a partner of Howard, Phillips & Andersen in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Phillips represents famous trademark holders in trademark litigation including Ford, General Motors, Honda, Callaway Golf, Audi, Volkswagen, and Porsche. As outside trademark litigation counsel for Porsche, he worked with the Senator Orrin Hatch and the Senate Judiciary Committee and Chris Cannon and the House Judiciary Committee in drafting the Anticyberquatting Consumer Protection Act, and testified on behalf of Porsche before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Act.

Mr. Phillips is the author of Necessary Protections for Famous Trademark Holders on the Internet, Volume 21, Issue 3, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal.

Mr. Phillips is a magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School.

Christopher L. Wight

Since 1984, Mr. Wight has been active in preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications in the fields of molecular biology, immunology, protein chemistry, gene therapy, and related research tools. He provides counseling in all areas of intellectual property law, including the acquisition, assertion and defense of intellectual property assets (patents and trademarks); conducting patentability, patent infringement and patent validity analyses; and negotiating and drafting technology transfer agreements, research agreements, and clinical trial agreements. He has also handled numerous foreign patent matters, including patent oppositions in the European Patent Office.

Mr. Wight joined Holland & Hart's Intellectual Property Practice Group in March 2003. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Mr. Wight served as Vice President and General Counsel of Myriad Genetics Inc., an internationally recognized genomics and proteomics company in Salt Lake City, Utah, and as Director of Intellectual Property of Immunex Corporation (subsequently acquired by Amgen), an internationally recognized biotechnology company in Seattle, Washington. At Immunex, Mr. Wight was responsible for, among other things, the preparation, and prosecution of patents relating to such products as Leukine® (granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor), and Enbrel® (TNF receptor), now a $750 million product marketed by Amgen.

Education:
J. Reuben Clark Law School, BrighamYoungUniversity (J.D. 1985)
-Managing Editor, Brigham Young University Journal of Legal Studies
Brigham Young University (B.A. 1982)

Jeffrey M. Duncan

Mr. Duncan is a partner at Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione. His practice includes counseling and preparing opinions in patent, trade secret and licensing matters; evaluating, negotiating and drafting technology transfer and joint venture agreements; performing intellectual property evaluations, audits and due diligence reviews; litigating patent and trade secrets cases; and preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and abroad. His practice has concentrated on the following technologies: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and chemistry.

Education:
J.D., The J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, 1984
B.S., Chemistry, Brigham Young University, 1981

Scott D. Hampton

Mr. Hampton is a partner of Campos & Stratis. Prior to joining the Firm in 1997, he worked as a litigation consultant and expert witness with KPMG Peat Marwick and Arthur Andersen & Company. Mr. Hampton has 18 years of accounting and financial experience, and has testified in State and Federal Court regarding patent and trademark infringement damages. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. He is also an ABV, having earned the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' business valuation designation in 1999.

Mr. Hampton has valued intellectual property in patent and trademark infringement litigation, royalty disputes, and as financial collateral for lending purposes. Mr. Hampton has testified in State and Federal Court on infringement of patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets and product defamation.

Mr. Hampton graduated from the University of Utah School of Business in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.

Gregory D. Adams

Dr. Adams is an expert in environmental economics, law and economics, and generalized applied microeconomics. He has provided expert analysis and testimony in a wide range of areas, including environmental and natural resources, and the agricultural, agribusiness, and food industries. His testimony has included the subject areas of environmental damages (including property value diminution), antitrust, intellectual property, lost profits and earnings, and public policy analyses. Dr. Adams received his Ph.D. in natural Resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining CRA, Dr. Adams was a Principal and Managing Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice at the Salt Lake City office of LECG/Navigant Consulting, Inc. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah, where he teaches Environmental Economics and Law and Economics.

H. Dickson Burton

Mr. Burton is a shareholder and director with the Salt Lake City firm of TraskBritt, P.C., where his practice emphasizes litigation and counseling in patent and other intellectual property matters. He began litigating intellectual property matters over twenty years ago in Washington, D.C., and has been based in Salt Lake City since 1987. Mr. Burton has successfully litigated numerous complex patent and trade secret cases to trial and through appeal in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He has written and lectured extensively on IP and litigation issues and is a co-author of the well-known BNA books "Covenants Not to Compete: A State by State Survey," and "Trade Secrets: A State by State Survey." He has been an arbitrator, mediator and expert witness in various patent and trade secret disputes. Mr. Burton is a registered patent attorney.

Terry Welch

Mr. Welch is a partner at Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless and is a trial attorney with substantial trial, arbitration and mediation experience in federal and state courts. He has handled trials ranging from half-day, four-person jury trials to complex multi-week trials involving more than 40 witnesses. He has handled dozens of mediations and arbitrations related to patents, trademarks, products liability, antitrust, insurance coverage disputes and other issues. Mr. Welch speaks Japanese and has represented Japanese companies doing business in the United States and U.S.-based businesses doing business in Japan.

Education:
1990, J.D., University of Utah, Order of the Coif
Development Editor, Utah Law Review
1987, B.A., University of Utah

William McNichol

Mr. McNichol concentrates his practice in the representation of technology-based enterprises in a broad range of intellectual property matters including the prosecution of patent applications, reexamination and reissues; trademark registration applications, oppositions and cancellation proceedings; and the preparation of patent validity and infringement opinions in anticipation of litigation and new product introduction. Mr. McNichol is currently Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law, and has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University ofPennsylvania.

Education:
1983, J.D., VillanovaUniversity
1979, M.S., VillanovaUniversity, Biochemistry
1977, B.S., VillanovaUniversity, Biology

Stephen G. Whiteside, Ph.D., Esq.

Dr. Whiteside has been a patent practitioner since graduation from law school. After spending several years in a Washington, D.C. law firm, Dr. Whiteside joined Invitrogen Corporation as in-house intellectual property counsel in early 2001.

Dr. Whiteside's current areas of practice include patent prosecution, technology assessment, and intellectual property due diligence.

With respect to major technologies, Dr. Whiteside's main areas of practice involve molecular biology and protein chemistry.

Education:
StonehillCollege, B.S. Biology, 1983
BostonCollege, M.S. Biology, 1985
BostonCollege, Ph.D. Biology, 1991
New EnglandSchool of Law, J.D., 1996

Admitted to Practice:
Massachusetts Bar
District of Columbia Bar
U.S. Patent Bar (Registration Number 42,224)