Education

• J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon
  - Dean’s Fellowship for Excellence scholarship recipient
• B.S., Electro-mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Professional Highlights

• Brian represents clients in a wide range of intellectual property matters, including strategy counseling, patentability studies, non-infringement and invalidity studies, due diligence, licensing, and preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications before the USPTO.
• Has prepared and prosecuted patents in diverse technical fields, including digital and analog circuit design, chipsets, processors, computer networks, wireless, VoIP/FoIP, semiconductor memory, software, DSP, displays, and video processors.
• Worked in-house at Intel Corporation in their Corporate Licensing Group and has prepared and prosecuted patents both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions for industry leaders including Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, General Electric, InFocus, as well as for mid-sized companies, start-ups and independent inventors.

Associations

• Admitted to practice in the State of Oregon
• Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Member of the Oregon State Bar Intellectual Property section