Practice areas
23 years, 30 cases
23 years, 5 cases
Languages spoken
English
State | Status | Acquired | Updated |
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CA | Active | 1999 | 06/20/2022 |
Legal answers | 2 |
Legal guides | 0 |
Award name | Grantor | Date Granted |
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Super Lawyer | Northern California Super Lawyers | 2012 |
Super Lawyer | Northern California Super Lawyers | 2011 |
Rising Star | Northern California Super Lawyers | 2010 |
Rising Star | Northern California Super Lawyers | 2009 |
Winner, Comment Competition | Berkeley Technology Law Journal | 1999 |
Chancellor James Kent Scholar | Columbia Law School | 1998 |
Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar | Columbia Law School | 1997 |
Title | Company name | Duration |
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Partner | Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP | 2019 - Present |
Partner | Turner Boyd LLP | 2009 - 2019 |
Of Counsel | Fish & Richardson P.C. | 2008 - 2009 |
Associate | Mayer Brown LLP | 2004 - 2008 |
Associate | Heller Ehrman | 1999 - 2004 |
Association name | Position name | Duration |
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San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court | Member | 2001 - Present |
American Intellectual Property Law Association | Member | 2000 - Present |
State Bar of California | Member | 1999 - Present |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court | President | 2008 - 2010 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court | Vice President | 2006 - 2008 |
American Intellectual Property Law Association | Committee on Model Patent Jury Instructions | 2006 - 2010 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court | Secretary-Treasurer | 2004 - 2006 |
Publication name | Title | Date |
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Los Angeles Daily Journal | Off the Record (Fed. R. Evid. 502 and Privilege Waiver) (with Matthew L. Levine and William B. Mateja) | 2008 |
18 A.B.A. Intel. Prop. Lit. 4 | Enhanced Damages for Postverdict Patent Infringement (with Ian N. Feinberg) | 2007 |
40 Jurimetrics J. 217 | A Most Uncommon Carrier: Online Service Provider Immunity Against Defamation Claims in Blumenthal v. Drudge | 2000 |
Berkeley Technology Law Journal | Safety in Numbers: Revisiting the Risks to Client Confidences and Attorney-Client Privilege Posed by Internet Electronic Mail | 1999 |
23 Colum.-VLA J. Law & Arts 405 | Links, Liability and the Law: The Strange Case of Ticketmaster v. Microsoft | 1999 |
School name | Degree | Graduated |
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Columbia University School of Law | JD - Juris Doctor | 1999 |
Columbia University, Columbia College | A.B | 1990 |
Conference name | Title | Date |
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Fundamentals of Patent Litigation 2013 | Elements and Burdens in a Patent Infringement Case and the Defendant’s Response | 2013 |
Stanford Law School Conference on Intellectual Property Law and the Biosciences | Patentable Subject Matter (with Prof. John Barton, Prof. Mark Lemley, Prof. Oskar Liivak, and Michelle Rhyu) | 2009 |
Fish & Richardson ITC BootCamp | Respondent Pre-Initiation Issues and Remedy, Bonding & Appeal | 2009 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | Willful infringement and opinions of counsel in the wake of In re Seagate | 2007 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | The 2006 electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | 2006 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | Recent developments in copyright law affecting internet search engines | 2006 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | Voir dire and jury selection in federal intellectual property cases | 2005 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | Strategies for drafting and responding to notice and demand letters alleging patent infringement | 2003 |
San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court | Recent case law developments in the on-sale bar to patenting | 2002 |
Legal Issues of Email Use | Privilege and the duty to maintain client conferences | 2001 |
SF SIGGRAPH | Copyright Law 101 | 2001 |
Columbia Law School Telecommunications Law Course | Intellectual Property Law | 2001 |
Heller Ehrman | Preemption of end-user software licenses under the Copyright Act | 2000 |
Columbia Law School Telecommunications Law Course | Intellectual Property Law | 2000 |
Western Alliance for Community Media annual conference | Ask the Lawyers: Legal issues affecting public, educational, and governmental cable channels | 1999 |
Columbia Law School Telecommunications Law Course | Privacy; Antitrust | 1999 |
Case name | Outcome |
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Board of Regents of the University of Texas System v. BenQ America Corp., et al | Summary judgment of noninfringement upheld |
Digital Technology Licensing, LLC v. Cingular Wireless LLC | Settled on eve of trial |
Eric A. Kimmel v. Guggenheim Entertainment LLC et al | Settled |
Monster Cable Products, Inc. v. The Quest Group d/b/a AudioQuest | Summary judgment of noninfringement upheld |
FusionArc, Inc. v. Solidus Networks, Inc. |
Christopher Banys, Intellectual property Attorney on Sep 10, 2013
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