Education

  • Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets, 2022 Wharton executive education, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Master of Divinity in Christian Education, 2015 Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Completed during full time practice.
  • Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration, 2000 University of Missouri.
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering and B.S. Computer Engineering, 1996 University of Missouri. Two engineering degrees, earned before law school.

Admissions

Appearing in a patent case takes two separate things: a license to practice law, and admission to the particular court where the case sits. Registration at the patent office is a third and different qualification.

  • Registered patent attorney, United States Patent and Trademark Office Since 2002.
  • State bars California, active. Missouri, active. Texas, inactive. Tennessee, inactive.
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Where patent appeals from every district court in the country are heard.
  • United States Court of Federal Claims
  • United States District Courts Northern District of California. Central District of California. District of Kansas. Western District of Missouri. Eastern District of Texas. Eastern District of Virginia.

Recognition and service

  • Baccalaureate address, UMKC School of Law class of 2016 Selected to give it.
  • Former INROADS scholar
  • Member, Hispanic National Bar Association
  • Externship, the Hon. John C. Holstein Supreme Court of Missouri.
  • Internship, the Hon. Harold Lowenstein Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
  • Board member, Northland Christian School Five years.

What a list like this is good for

A credential answers one narrow question: whether someone is permitted to do the work, and where. It says nothing about whether they will read the file history, whether they can explain your product to a jury, or whether they will spend your money carefully.

The people who have watched him do all three wrote about it themselves. Read all seven recommendations in full.