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| Practice Areas | Litigation Department; Intellectual Property; Unfair Competition, False Advertising and Lanham Act | | | Education | John Marshall Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1994, Tuskegee University, B.S.E.E., with highest honors, 1984; Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S.E.E., 1985 | | | Admitted | 1994, Illinois; 1995, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Federal Circuits; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | |
| Memberships | Cook County, Illinois State (Chair, 2001-2002, Intellectual Property Section Council; Associate Editor, ISBA Intellectual Property, 2006-2007), American (Seventh Circuit Reporter, 1994-1998, Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter) Bar Associations. | | | Born | Birmingham, Alabama, December 5, 1962 | | | Biography | Eta Kappa Nu; Kappa Alpha Psi; Order of John Marshall; Giles S. Rich Moot Court Competition, Semi-Finalist. Recipient: Kappa Alpha Psi Southern Province Achievement Award, 1984; AT&T Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award; National Merit Achievement Scholarship; National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarship; NCR Scholarship. Co-Author: "Inevitable Disclosure — No Noncompete Is Needed," Employment Law Strategist, Vol. 3, No. 8, December 1997; "Hilton Davis Preserves Doctrine of Equivalents With Clarifications?" Intellectual Property Litigation, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Spring 1997. Author: "Shrinkwrap Licenses Are Enforceable," Intellectual Property Litigation, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Fall 1996; "Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms Markman v. Westview Instrument," Intellectual Property Litigation, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Summer 1996; "Can You Copy A Device Disclosed In An Expired Utility Patent?" ISBA Intellectual Property, Vol. 37, No. 4, June 1998; "Traditional Patent License Negotiations Result in Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction After MedImmune," ISBA Intellectual Property, Vol. 46, No. 4, June 2007. | | | ISLN | 900028814 | |
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