Speaking Engagements and Lectures
Invited Speaker: “Licensing and Business Considerations Unique to Design Patents, Trade Dress and 3D Copyright,” Licensing Executives Society, Chicago, Illinois, November 2011
Invited Speaker: “Cutting Edge U.S. Design Patent Prosecution Strategies,” Symposium on the Protection of Designs, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI), Santiago, Chile, November 2011 View File
Invited Panelist: “Designing the Design Patent System,” with Panelists Prof. Mark D. Janis and Tara N. Rosnell of Proctor & Gamble, The Scholarly Symposia Series, The University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio, September 2011
Invited Speaker: “Post-Egyptian Goddess Case Law Analysis – Where do things stand?: Infringement, Claim Construction and Validity,” United States Patent & Trademark Office, Design Day 2011, Alexandria, VA, April 2011
Invited Lecturer: ”Industrial Designer’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Chicago, Illinois, March 2011
Invited Lecturer: “Strategic Enforcement of U.S. Intellectual Property Rights,” In-House IP Managers Forum, London, England, January 2011
Invited Lecturer: ”Strategic IP Protection and Enforcement for Industrial Designers,” University of Illinois-Chicago, Department of Designed Objects, Chicago, Illinois, January 2011
Keynote Speaker: “Design Law for Designers: The In’s and Out’s,” Apparel’s 2010 Tech Conference, Hosted by the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York, November 2010
Guest Speaker: “A Night At The Museum of Designs,” Hon. Richard Linn American Inn of Court, Chicago, Illinois, October 2010
Guest Speaker: ”Claim Construction in Post-Egyptian Goddess World,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, D.C., October 2010
Invited Speaker: “Product and Package Design Protection Using Design Patents,” Intellectual Property Owners Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2010
Invited Speaker: ”The Anatomy Design Patent Litigation,” American Intellectual Property Law Association Webinar, June 2010
Invited Speaker: ”Looks Matter; How to Protect Product Designs While Creating Valuable Assets,” NeoCon’s World’s Trade Fair, Chicago, Illinois, June 2010
Guest Lecturer: ”Point of Ornamentality Test? Navigating Richardson v. Stanley Works,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, New York, NY, May 2010
Invited Speaker: ”Triple Play: Case Analyses of Three Recent Federal Circuit Design Patent Cases, International Seaway v. Walgreens, Crocs v. ITC, and Richardson v. Stanley Works,” Intellectual Property Owners Association, April 2010
Invited Speaker: ”Who is the “Ordinary Observer” in Design Patent Jurisprudence?” Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, April 2010
Guest Lecturer: ”Industrial Designer’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Chicago, Illinois, March 2010
Invited Speaker: ”Comparative Analysis Between U.S. Design Patent System and European Community Design Registration System,” Office of Harmonization and Internal Markets (OHIM) and World Intellectual Property Organization, Alicante, Spain, September 2009
Guest Speaker: ”An Analysis of Post-Egyptian Goddess Case Law,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, San Diego, CA, May 2009
Invited Speaker: ”Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc.: Shock and Aftershock, An Analysis of the En Banc Decision and Its Effect on Design Patent Litigation,” United States Patent & Trademark Office, Design Day 2009, Alexandria, VA, April 2009
Guest Faculty Member: ”Litigating Design Patents Under Egyptian Goddess,” American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, December 2008
Guest Faculty Member: ”Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa: Fundamental Change for Design Patent Law,” Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, October 2008
Guest Panelist: “Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa: Design Patent Law And The Shape Of Things To Come,” Federal Circuit Bar Association, Washington, D.C., October 2008
Guest Lecturer: Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc.: The Most Important Design Patent Case Since 1871,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, D.C., October 2008
Guest Lecturer: “Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc.: The En Banc Federal Circuit Court Searches For The Rosetta Stone for Design Patent Jurisprudence,” Intellectual Property Law Association of Florida, Miami, FL, October 2008
Guest Lecturer: ”The Path to Meaningful Design Patent Protection,” Industrial Designer Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, February 2008
Guest Lecturer: ”The Big Five: The Federal Circuit’s Five Most Recent Design Patent Opinions – What’s Going On?,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, D.C., October 2007
Guest Lecturer: ”U.S. Design Law: Driven to Tears, Driven to a Sui Generis Design Registration System,” Intellectual Property Owners Association, New York, New York, September 2007
Guest Lecturer: ”Mediation, Improvisation, and All That Jazz,” Chicago Bar Association and the Center for Conflict Resolution, Chicago, IL, May 2007
Guest Lecturer: ”Design Patent Litigation: Design Patent’s Point of Novelty Test,” Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, IL, February 2007
Guest Lecturer: ”What’s the Point?: A Comprehensive Analysis of Design Patent’s Point of Novelty Test,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2007
Guest Lecturer: ”The State of Design Patent Infringement in View of Federal Circuit’s Opinion in Lawman Armor v. Winner,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, D.C., October 2006
Guest Lecturer: ”Claim Construction and the Application of Markman to Design Patent Litigation,” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, D.C., October 2005
Guest Lecturer: Design Patent Infringement Remedies: Profits, Damages and Injunctions, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Orlando, FL, January 2005
The Industrial Design Trinity: Copyrights, Trade Dress and Design Patents, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, IL, April 2004
Design Patent Litigation: The Functionality Doctrine, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, IL, July 2003
