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Chad has served as primary outside intellectual property counsel to companies ranging from garage start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, as well as governmental entities. He believes that an optimal intellectual asset management (“IAM”) strategy necessarily must be informed by a client’s business strategy.  With the knowledge that one size most definitely does not fit all, Chad provides value to clients by tailoring each client’s IAM strategy to ensure that the investment is reasonable in light of that client’s business situation, and to optimize value, rather than merely quantity, of the intellectual asset portfolio.

Chad enjoys his relationships with clients. He considers all of his clients friends and enjoys interacting with them as people, not merely as part of a business or legal transaction. Clients have said that one of Chad’s strengths is his ability to relate to many different types of clients, from general counsel who know nothing about technology and little about intellectual property, to hard core engineers who find personal interaction difficult. Chad strives to make the attorney-client relationship as comfortable (and maybe even fun) for the client as possible.

Clients generally look to Chad for patent and trademark prosecution, strategic portfolio management, pre-litigation counseling, litigation, and opinion work in both patents and trademarks, as well as strategic advice in the areas of privacy and data protection.   Chad also has extensive experience in adversarial proceedings, including inter partes review and other proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, as well as federal patent and trademark litigation at the trial and appellate levels .

Chad’s experience has given him an unusual breadth and depth of expertise in intellectual property.  Chad is one of few attorneys who legitimately can claim to be a “one stop shop” for all issues across the spectrum of patents and trademarks.

For example, Chad has written and litigated patents in equal measure.  This experience provides him with a unique strategic perspective on how to attack patents in litigation and how to anticipate and prevent such attacks when drafting and prosecuting patent applications.  Unlike most attorneys, who specialize in either patent prosecution or litigation, Chad is equally adept at writing complex patent applications and appellate briefs.

Similarly, unlike most patent attorneys, Chad also has extensive experience obtaining and litigating trademarks

Within the field of patents, Chad focuses primarily on telecommunications, semiconductors, software and electronics, and medical devices. Many of Chad’s clients are involved with computer and communication technologies, including semiconductor design and fabrication, electronic consumer devices, animation software, Internet security, global navigation, database and applications software, electronic commerce, and network hardware.

Chad is the editor of the patent section of Corporate Counsel Solutions: Intellectual Property Management: Strategies & Tactics, available from LexisNexis.

When Chad is not practicing law, he enjoys spending time with his family, including his two Bernadoodles. He also enjoys (and sometimes hates) playing golf. Chad has enjoyed alpine skiing since he was young, although he can no longer keep with his kids on the steep stuff. His other hobbies include travel, cooking, reading pulp sci-fi novels, and writing computer software.

Practice Areas

Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Development
Trademark and Copyright
Litigation
Privacy and Data Protection

Distinctions & Awards

Colorado “Super Lawyer,” 2015-present
Clerk, Hon Jerry E. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2000-01
IAM 1000 Recommended

Professional Activities

Colorado Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Colorado Software and Internet Association

Publications

“Abort, Retry, Fail: Protection for Software-Related Inventions in the Wake of State Street Bank & Trust Co v. Signature Financial Group, Inc.,” 85 Cornell Law Review 1118 (2000).

Education

Cornell Law School, J.D., 2000, magna cum laude
– Senior Note Editor
– Order of the Coif
– John M. Olin Scholar

University of Colorado, B.S. Civil/Environmental Engineering, 1995

Bar Admissions

Supreme Court, State of Colorado
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals (Fourth, Fifth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits)
U.S. District Courts (D. Colo., N.D. Ill.)