Experience

Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch, PLLC

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Attorney

  • Jul 2012 - Present

  Prepare and prosecute domestic and international patent applications covering network devices, systems, and operation, communication technologies including optical systems and devices, wireless protocols, architectures, and bandwidth provisioning software, image processing hardware and software, flash memory devices, cloud security, printer related technology, business methods and e-commerce, power tools, and various outdoor equipment.Counsel clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors.Conduct due diligence and opinion work (infringement, freedom to operate, etc.).



Schultz & Associates, P.C.

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consulting Attorney

  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012

  Prepared a domestic biochemical patent applicationResearched and prepared legal memoranda, interrogatories, requests for production of documents, and infringement analyses for use in copyright, trademark, and patent litigation.



Merchant & Gould P.C. - through Special Counsel

• Supporting Attorney

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Defend against a patent infringement suit between competing horizontal directional drilling companies.Build witness kits, help prepare responses to interrogatories, and perform a document review



Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.

• Supporting Attorney

  • May 2010 - Jun 2012

  Reviewed patent applications after allowance.Identified discrepancies and errors for clients.Organized and review trademark, copyright and patent files in preparation for digitization.



Carlson, Caspers, Vandenburgh & Lindquist – through Special Counsel

• Supporting Attorney

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Assisted in Hatch-Waxman ANDA litigation building witness kits, developing lines of questioning for depositions, and preparing clinical study data for incorporation into expert witness reports.Prepared memoranda of law exploring foundation, authentication and hearsay exceptions applicable to each piece of evidence sought to be introduced.Drafted correspondence to opposing counsel concerning production deficiencies and further requests for production.Compiled information for incorporation into a motion to compel.Demonstrated a mastery of e-discovery tools including Summation, Catalyst and Relativity leading to a role helping train new document reviewers and acting as point person for contact between the attorneys and doc reviewers.Additionally performed document review for cardiovascular medical device patent infringement suit



William Mitchell College of Law

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant for R. Carl Moy

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Researched and constructed memoranda for Moy’s Walker on Patents legal treatise.Constructed legal arguments and theories for amicus curiae in prominent patent cases, e.g., Tafas v. Doll, Shire LLC v. Sandoz, Bilski v. Doll, Global-Tech v. SEB, and Microsoft v.i4i.



Ecolab

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intellectual Property Law Extern

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Drafted a patent application, a response to an office action, and an appeal brief.Researched and prepared an invalidity opinion.Conducted an inventor interview.Performed legal research related to patent law/antitrust issues for a litigation matter.



University of Iowa

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2004 - May 2007

  Researched the mechanisms of pulmonary diseases including Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and lung cancer.Generated hypotheses, designed and performed experiments, and analyzed results.Prepared manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals.Presented findings at academic conferences and regularly to peers.