Tim helps clients, inventors and business owners across multiple industries secure and protect their intellectual property.
Overview
Tim has extensive experience litigating a variety of business disputes in state and federal courts throughout the United States including claims such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, false advertising, and breach of contract. His experience includes challenging and defending the validity of patents in Inter Parte Review (IPR), Post Grant Review (PGR) and Covered Business Method (CBM) proceedings before the USPTO.
Throughout his career, Tim has secured, enforced, and defended rights in numerous technologies, including software, computer hardware, computer networks, cellular phones, food preparation methods, mechanical devices, electrical controls, construction products and methods, and water craft.
As a registered U.S. patent attorney, with degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering, he prepares and prosecutes patents in a variety of electrical, electronics, software and computer system technologies. Tim gained technical experience with electrical products, equipment, and controls prior to law school working as an electrical engineer in manufacturing and power plants. Tim's practice also includes drafting and negotiating software licenses, patent licenses, trademark licenses, and non-disclosure agreements.
News & Insights
News
Publications
Co-author, "Liability of Computer Maintenance Providers under Copyright Law: Storage Tech. Corp. v. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, Inc." Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Santa Clara University School of Law, Volume 22, Number 4, May 2006
Recognitions
Recognitions
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® list, 2016-2027
Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2016-2017
Missouri & Kansas Rising Star, 2011-2015
Burton Award for Legal Achievement in Association with Library of Congress, 2007
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
Missouri Bar Association
Illinois Bar
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri
- Illinois
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Education
Washington University-St. Louis, J.D., 2005
University of Missouri-Columbia, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, 1997
Saint Louis University, B.A., Applied Mathematics, 1995
