I am a patent, IP, and techology attorney with over a decade of legal experience and expertise in many technology areas including medical devices, software (including AI/ML technologies such as LLMs and Generative AI), defense, and electronics. I focus on IP counseling, patent strategy, licensing and IP agreements, IP diligence and opinions, managing and mitigating risk associated with integration of AI/ML technologies, managing open source software compliance risk, and FDA 510(k) regulatory strategy. I became a patent agent in 2009, and am a partner at Knobbe Martens, an Intellectual Property law firm. (More details regarding my practice may be found on my Knobbe bio page.)
I studied law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where I was the Internet Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review. I was a teaching assistant for Legal Writing & Analysis, and took a number of intensive, practical IP courses including patent prosecution, patent litigation, and the patent clinic.
I have a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a student at Illinois, I developed improved methods of algorithmic circuit synthesis. My advisor was Deming Chen in the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Prior to starting law school I worked as an engineer intern at Jazz Semiconductor (now Tower Semiconductor) in the Device Modeling & Support group. At Jazz I helped develop methods for evaluating foundry device models and outputs.
In my free time I enjoy building things and playing with my kids, watching movies, reading, waterskiing, and coding.
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