• Successful prosecution and defense of numerous cases involving patent infringement and trade secret violations in a diverse range of technologies including building products, military garments and equipment, agricultural equipment, exercise equipment, automotive equipment, shoe manufacturing, business methods, weighing equipment, pharmaceutical and biotechnology products
• Successful representation of numerous entities in cases involving, trademark and service mark infringement, unfair competition and dilution, including securing and defending against TROs and preliminary injunctions
• Successfully tried numerous cases in state and federal courts across the country
• Extensive experience before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
• Successfully argued significant tax cases before the Missouri Supreme Court
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® in the area of Intellectual Property Law, 2010

Representative Clients

• Bakers Footwear Group, Inc.
• Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation
• Boise Cascade Corporation
• Brown Shoe Company, Inc.
• Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.
• Bunzl Distribution USA, Inc.
• Buzzi Unicem USA
• CCA Global Partners, Inc.
• Eagle Industries Unlimited, Inc.
• Fairbanks Scales, Inc.
• Magnesium Elektron North America
• Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
• Phelps Dodge Corporation

• Named as Partner, 2001
• Joined firm as Associate, 1995
• Associate, Atkinson, Haskins, Nellis, Boudreaux, Holeman, Phipps & Brittingham, 1992-1995

• "Design On A Dime? New Life For Design Patents," October 2008
• "Is The Obvious Meaning of "Obvious" So Obvious After All: How to Navigate The Supreme Court's KSR Decision In Litigation And Prosecution," October 2007
• "Cover Your Assets: Insurance and Intellectual Property Claims," November 2003
• "Patent Damages," the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, September 2001
• "Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.: An Analysis of Rule 11 and Its Appropriate Standard of Review," 44 Okla. L. Rev. 495, 1991

• Illinois, 1997
• Missouri, 1996
• Oklahoma, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2000
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), 2007
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois, 1997
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 1996
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1992
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma, 1992
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma, 1992

• J.D., University of Oklahoma, with Honors, 1992
  Oklahoma Law Review, 1990-1992
  Kerr-McGee Scholar
• The Queens College, Oxford University, Oxford England, 1990
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, with honors 1987
  Tau Beta Pi
  Pi Tau Sigma

• American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Litigation Committee
• American Intellectual Property Law Association, IP Insurance Subcommittee, Inter-Committee Liaison Officer
• Defense Research Institute, Inc.
• Illinois Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• Oklahoma Bar Association, Charter Member, Litigation Section
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society