Represented a distillery in a trademark opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, including trial briefing and oral argument before the Board. The Board sustained the opposition in favor of the client, recognizing client’s rights in the mark.
Represented plaintiff and counter-defendant in litigation concerning trade secret misappropriation and multiple allegations of breach of contract. Litigated through discovery, securing an am...
- University of California - Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 2009,
Executive Editor, Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal
- University of California - Berkeley, B.S. Political Science; Religious Studies, 2006,
Highest Honors in Religious Studies; Distinction in General Scholarship
- Colorado State Bar
- California State Bar
INSIGHT: How Covid-19 Changed the Future of Litigation, co-authored James Beard and Heather Kliebenstein, Bloomberg Law (May 7, 2020)
Best Practices for Managing Litigation During Pandemic, co-authored James Beard and Heather Kliebenstein, Law360 (April 23, 2020)
Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments, Chapter Editor, American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section (2011)
Patent Marking: True AND False, co-authored James Beard and Karen Boyd, 11th Annual Silicon Valley Advanced Patent Law Institute (2010)
Note: A Better Carrot: Incentivizing Patent Reexamination, author, Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal, Vol. 1, p. 169 (2009)
An Analysis of CIGS Solar Cell Technology, co-authored James Beard and Albert Halluin, Nanotechnology Law & Business, Vol. 6, p. 19 (2009)
The Limits of Licensing: Quanta v. LGE and the New Doctrine of Simultaneous Exhaustion, author, UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, No. 3 (2008)
Weeds in the Docket: Patent Continuation Reform and Its Effects on the Biotechnology Industry, author, Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, Vol. 90, p. 423 (2008)