EMPLOYMENT

Kinney & Lange, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota

Associate, 2006 - Present

• Patent Prosecution

• Patent validity and other intellectual property counseling

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2006

• Dean's List, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Royal A. Stone Scholar 2004 - 2005

• Kenneth & Lillian Smith Scholar, 2005 - 2006

• Faculty Hiring Committee

• Educational Policy Committee

• Inaugural participant, Walter F. Mondale seminar in American Politics

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993-1995

• Physicist-in-Charge, MACRO experiment, Gran Sasso Laboratories

• U.S. Department of Energy Fellowship

• Research Fellow, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ph.D., Astrophysics, 1993

• National Science Foundation Fellowship in Astrophysics

• NATO Advanced Study Fellowship in Cosmic Ray Physics

• Head Physics Teaching Assistant, supervising entire undergraduate laboratory program

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

B.A., Physics, cum laude, 1986

• National Merit Scholar

• William Carleton Scholar

• President, Carleton Players

• College Council

• Varsity athlete, cross country & track

EXPERIENCE

Thomson West, Eagan, Minnesota

Writer, Westlaw Jury Verdicts Database, 2004 - 2006

• Online jury database for Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Federal Courts

Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, 1999 - 2004

• Cottrell College Science Award, Research Corporation

• Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation research grant in neutrino astrophysics

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, 1995 - 1998

• Developed advanced quantum-mechanics based laboratory program

• International research in Oxford, Geneva, Beijing, and Durban, South Africa

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, 1991 - 1993

• Taught Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, Optics, Astrophysics & Thermodynamics

ACTIVITIES

The IP Book, 5th Ed., Midwest Intellectual Property Institute (2007)

Intellectual Property Law for Business Lawyers, 2007-2008 Ed., Thomson West (2007); Chapter 12, Trade Secret Law (ed.)

Overview of Intellectual Property for Business Lawyers, 2007 - 2008 eds., Kinney & Lange, P.A.

SR 108-3, ABA Committee 108 (2006)(ABA response to US PTO's 2007 - 2012 strategic initiative)

Speaker, 2007 K&L Seminar (B.P.M.C. v. CA Dep't of Health; Sovereign Immunity & Patent Infringement)

Author/co-author of approximately 100 works on particle physics, astrophysics, statistics and science education

American Bar Association

Minnesota Bar Association

Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association

American Physical Society

American Association of Physics Teachers

ADMISSIONS

Supreme Court of Minnesota

United States District Court, District of Minnesota

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office