Preparation and prosecution of patent applications in a wide variety of technical and scientific fields:

interdisciplinary fields that combine mathematics with physical, chemical, biological, and/or computer sciences, including bioinformatics, memristors, molecular electronics, quantum computing, nanotechnology, structural and computational biology, imaging, sub-diffraction-limit microscopy, materials science, and optimization; computing, including operating systems, compilers, networking, database management systems, mathematical and scientific software applications, Internet-related computational tools and applications, error-correction coding, video encoding and decoding, and signal processing; microscopy and optics; computing devices and hardware, including processor architecture, system architecture, integrated-circuit design, electronics, mechanical devices, optical-electro-mechanical devices, scientific instruments, and medical devices; and physics, chemistry, biochemistry, life sciences, and applied mathematics.

Patentability, infringement, and validity opinions
Patent-strategy counseling
Technical and scientific design review

Legal Experience

Aug 2002 - current	Olympic Patent Works, Seattle, WA	Patent Attorney and Founder
June 1995 – Aug 2002	Various Seattle law firms	Patent Attorney

Engineering Experience

Thirteen years working experience as a software engineer, including: operating systems and DBMS development, networking, scientific instrument control, and applications development at Prime Computers, DEC, Pyramid, Procase, and Gupta

Research Experience

Five years academic research experience in small-molecule and protein structure determination by x-ray crystallography

Teaching Experience

Teaching at university and community-college level, including: biochemistry, computer science, and law

Education

1995	J.D.	University of California at Berkeley
1983	PH.D	University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry
1983	M.S.	University of Wisconsin, Computer Science
1977	B.S.	University of Washington, Molecular and Cellular Biology
1977	B.A.	University of Washington, Russian Language and Literature (Honors Degree and Phi Beta Kappa)

Bar Membership

1995	Washington
1995	United States Patent & Trademark Office