| Biography | Bob represents industry, academia and entrepreneurs in patent prosecution, infringement litigation, licensing, trademark prosecution and oppositions, and opinion work. He has extensive experience in prosecuting patent applications in a wide range of technologies, including electrical, mechanical, digital signal processing, robotics, hydraulics, dredging, wind and water energy generation, agricultural equipment, software, control systems for tomography, wheelchairs and cotton bailers, construction equipment and techniques, dental and surgical implants, medical catheters, food processing, sensors for science and industry, video processing, lighting control, water filters, hand tools, illuminated jewelry, heat exchangers, clutches, carbon and particulate emissions control and business methods. Bob has successfully represented clients in litigation involving radar and orientation algorithms for pilots' heads-up displays, chemical processing, telephone, software, wheel alignment control systems, quarter wave heat mirrors for safety glass, barbeque tools, munitions and metal fabrication of intermediate bulk containers. In addition to his prosecution and litigation practice, Bob has successfully licensed technology, removed infringing items from Internet sales and opposed trademark applications. He also consults as an expert witness in patent infringement litigation. Before entering the intellectual property field, Bob spent more than 15 years successfully representing clients in jury trials on medical malpractice and wrongful death cases. Bob's technical background is in physics. Bob has been involved with obtaining the following patents: · Self-Laminating Integrated Card and Method, 6,322,655 B1 · Apparatus and Method for Thrust Vector Control, 6,622,472 B2 · Operator Interface for Baling Machine, 6,628,998 B2 · Control System for Baling Machine, 6,633,798 B2 · Shaped Bodies, 6,634,046 B2 · Brake Drive, 6,655,520 B2 · Apparatus and Method for Automated Binding and Spooling of Wire Cores, 6,701,831 B2 · Wire-Tied Pull Pins, 6,711,994 B1 · Fluid System, 6,752,600 B2 · Composite of a Vulcanizable Rubber Composition and Cured Rubber Product, 6,821,632 B2 · Universal Ergonomic Support With Self-Contained Actuator, 6,824,214 B2 · Method and Apparatus for Determining Optimal Adjustments of Work Units in an Agricultural Harvesting Machine, 6,863,604 B2 · Apparatus and Method for Determining Grain Loss in Combine Harvesters, 6,869,355 B2 · Electromechanical Functional Module, 6,930,439 B2 · Apparatus and Method for Double Clutch Actuator, 6,945,600 B2 · Handheld Medication Dosage Calculator, 6,978,286 B2 · Dental Implant and Method of Insertion, 6,991,463 B2 · Wheel Chair Apparatus and Method, 7,117,967 B2 · Releasable Segment in the Working Members of an Agricultural Harvesting Machine, 7,137,882 B2 · Software Download Control System, Apparatus and Method, 7,171,606 B2 · On-Board Scale Sensor With Mechanical Amplification and Improved Output Signal Apparatus and Method, 7,240,571 B2 · Apparatus and Method for Accommodating Loss of Signal, 7,263,648 B2 · Fluid Filter Apparatus and Method, 7,264,718 B2 · Multi-Purpose Vessel and Method for Recovering, Storing and/or Offloading Material in a Dredging Operation, 7,326,020 B2 · Rotational Use of Memory to Minimize Write Cycles, 7,480,760 B2 · Error Correction Apparatus and Method, 7,506,235 B2 · Method for Protecting a Proprietary File, 7,529,770 B2 · High-Resolution Ultrasound Displacement Measurement Apparatus and Method, 7,535,797 B2 · Toolbox Latch and Hinge Apparatus and Method, 7,555,816 B2 · Bone-Adaptive Surface Structure, 7,556,500 B2 · Method and Device for Compensating the Mounting Tolerances of a Distance Sensor, 7,571,066 B2 · Central Auger Crop Feed System for a Harvester, 7,587,885 B2 · Reduced Friction Wind Turbine Apparatus and Method, 7,633,177 B2 · Automated Transport Stream Apparatus and Method, 7,661,120 B2 Professional Associations & Memberships · American Intellectual Property Law Association · The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis · Illinois State Bar Association · International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) · The Missouri Bar Experience · Lead counsel for defendant in patent litigation involving a broadcast digital notification system. The client was dismissed from the case four months after being served. Techradium v. Groupcast, et al., No. 2:09-cv-275 (ED Tex) · Lead counsel for DPSI in patent litigation involving a system and method for managing maintenance of building facilities. DPSI was settled out of this case before discovery began. AFMC v. IBM and DPSI, No. 8:09-cv-00390 (DC Neb) · Lead defense counsel on patent infringement involving flat bottom Intermediate Bulk Containers. Client was awarded summary judgment of non-infringement. Custom Metalcraft, Inc., v. Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc., No. 6:05-cv-03174 (WD MO) · Client won summary judgment of invalidity on all patents involved in a patent infringement matter. The technologies involved covered laminated window assemblies made from composite solar/safety film and a laminate for a safety glazing. Crown Operations Int'l., Ltd. v. Solutia, Inc., No. 3:99-cv-00802 (WD Wisc) · Represented plaintiff on patent infringement involving a methanol carbonylation process; settlement was successfully reached. Celanese International Corporation v. Oxyde Chemicals, Inc., No. 4:07-cv-02981 (SD Tex) · Lead defense counsel for client, who successfully reached settlement on an infringement matter involving a patent for a fowl roasting apparatus. Barbour International, Inc., v. Bass Pro, Inc., No. 4:05-cv-00443 (SD Tex) · Sale of small portfolio of patents covering digital hardware and software for satellite TV distribution for seven figures News & Publications Publications 5.1.09, Documentations and Deadlines: Avoiding Costly Issues in Protecting Innovation, InterBusiness Issues 11.1.01, Prior User Rights for Business Method Patents, Saint Louis University Public Law Review 1.1.98, Ephemeral Infringement in Customizable Software, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 1.1.90, Use of Expert Witnesses in Malpractice Litigation, Journal of the Missouri Bar Events 10.15.09, Intellectual Property Seminar
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