Practice Areas ; Litigation(15%); Patent Law(75%); Trade Secrets(5%)&sa=270&d=1&h=180&w=200&sl=false&dm=True&in=50) | ......................... 75% Patent Law......................... 15% Litigation......................... 5% Intellectual Propert............................ 5% Trade Secrets
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| University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., Ch.E., 1979; University of Texas-Austin, Ph.D., Ch.E., 1984 |
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| Law School | University of Houston Law Center, J.D., Intellectual Property, 1994 |
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| Admitted | 1994, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
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| Memberships | Houston, Fifth Circuit and American (Member, Intellectual Property Section, 1993—) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Houston Intellectual Property Law Association; State Bar College. |
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| Born | Fargo, North Dakota, April 16, 1957 |
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| Biography | Timothy S. Westby is a registered patent attorney specializing in the chemical arts, including the litigation and prosecution of patents for the chemical and petrochemical industries, and provides intellectual property counseling for process and product development such as patent opinion preparation, patent portfolio development, and pre-litigation management. Dr. Westby was a research engineer at the Shell Development Company's Westhollow Research Center for ten years in Corporate R&D (in Shell's well-known Combustion Group) and Environmental R&D. Dr. Westby's research areas have included: gas-solid reaction kinetics, combustion and reaction engineering, heat transfer, coal gasification and combustion, process economic modeling, risk-based corrective action for waste site cleanup assessment, and high-temperature inorganic melt chemistry, among others. Dr. Westby continues to maintain numerous engineering and professional society affiliations including the North American Catalysis Society, the Southwest Catalysis Society, and the AIChE, presenting "Is Your Patent Worth The Paper It's Printed on?" at the AIChE National Meeting (1999). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Rice University in the Chemistry and Materials Science Department for several years, and has provided patent law seminars at Rice and in the University of Houston Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments. Dr. Westby has represented several national universities in both patent litigation and prosecution. Dr. Westby is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U,S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas and the Texas State Courts. |
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| ISLN | 900151505 |
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