EDUCATION
Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, American University Washington College of Law
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

PatentServices.com
1999 – Present
1999 – Present
- Represent clients in all areas of intellectual property law including patents, licensing, transactions, copyrights, and trademarks.
- Negotiate and draft intellectual property agreements and licenses.
- Serve as an officer, board member, and/or advisor for several start-up companies including: Ofinno Technologies LLC, Out of Galaxy Inc., Cinea Inc., First Guard Technologies, Inc., and True Honey Teas LLC.
George Mason University
2006 – Present Adjunct Professor of Law
Assistant Director, Office of Technology Transfer
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Digital Video Express LP (DIVX), a Division of Circuit City Stores, Inc.
1998 – 1999 (DIXV closed in 1999) 2000 – 2011 (Continued representation until final sale of patent portfolio to Google)
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Orbital Sciences Corp.
1992 – 1998 Principal Software and Avionics Engineer
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Neo Davrich Corp.
July 1990 - November 1992 Founder and CEO
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Abetics Corp.
January 1984 - January 1991
Founder and CEO
January 1984 - January 1991
Founder and CEO
- Built and sold an engineering consulting company.
- Developed: a bio-telemetry system for the Army Human Engineering Lab; a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the Elizabeth River Tunnel; a mini-van power door control system; an industrial knitting machine controller; an airline ground station controller; a wireless printer link; traffic control telemetry systems for a dozen cities; and an aircraft capture net.
PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER
- National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP), Past President and current board member
- Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
- Past Research Editor for Tomorrow's Technology Transfer: The Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers
- Past Committee Chair of the Scholar Interaction Committee and Assistant VP of Metrics
- Admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Patent Application Preparation, National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meetings (2013-2015).
- Technology Transfer Practitioners and Scholars: What Can We Learn from Each Other? at Association of Technology Managers Annual Meetings (2011 and 2013).
- How to Convert your Research to a Patent, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (2011).
- Basic Claim and Specification Drafting, Nuts and Bolts Class, National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meetings (2006-2012).
- Non-Traditional Departments as a Resource in Technology Transfer, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2010).
- What a Technology Transfer Professional Needs to Know about Patent Claims, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2009).
- Business and Law Schools as Your Technology Transfer Office Workhorse, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2008).
- Screening the Screeners 45 IDEA 361 (2005). Discusses the problem of movie piracy and proposes a technical/legal solution involving the use of a temporally threaded watermark in combination with legal action under 17 U.S.C. 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
PATENTS
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