Honors and Awards:

• Pi Tau Sigma - University of Texas at Austin
• Beta Gamma Sigma - University of Houston Graduate School of Business
• Research Editor, Houston Law Review - University of Houston Law Center
• Served from 1993 to 1995 as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Wilson Cowen, Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 38,286, 1994

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Admitted to practice before the following United States federal courts: United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the District of Colorado, the District of Columbia, and the Northern, Southern, and Central Districts of Illinois; United States Court of International Trade; United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Federal Circuit; and United States Supreme Court.
• Former Federal Law Clerks Society
• Association of Former Law Clerks and Technical Advisors to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Houston Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Texas Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections
• American and Houston Intellectual Property Law Associations
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, Southern District of Texas Chapter
• American Bar Association, Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Chancellor's Council of The University of Texas System
• Friends of Alec - Excellence Endowment - University of Texas College of Engineering
• A.A. White Society - Associate Member - University of Houston Law Foundation
• National Eagle Scout Association - Life Member

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Concurrent Use Trademark Rights on The Internet - Who Gets to Keep the Domain Name When More than One Party Has Acquired Concurrent Use Trademark Rights in a Second-Level Domain Name?  Eighteenth Annual (2002) Institute on Intellectual Property Law, Galveston, Texas, presented by the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (HIPLA) and the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
• RIAA v. The People - Suits against Individuals using File Sharing Software - Liability and Settlement in Representing the Accused.  Paper presented for the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, Student Legal Services Division, 30th Annual Summer Conference -Santa Fe, New Mexico - July 2007
• Course Director for "Intellectual Property for the General Attorney."  Paper presented – "Internet Issues - Sites, Marks, Uses, Dangers."  Continuing Legal Education Seminar presented by the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law.  Dallas/Houston/Austin, Texas - April/May 2007

Educational Background:

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering - University of Texas at Austin , 1989
• J.D. - University of Houston Law Center, 1992
• M.B.A. - University of Houston Graduate School of Business, 1992