The engineering degrees came before the law degree.

Two of them, taken together, then law and business school, then two more degrees later on while working. The order matters for a patent practice, because the technical reading came first and never had to be borrowed.

  • Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets, 2022 Executive education, the Wharton School.
  • Master of Divinity in Christian Education, 2015 Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
  • Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration, 2000 University of Missouri.
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering and B.S. Computer Engineering, 1996 University of Missouri.

Registered to practice at the patent office since 2002.

A registered patent attorney has passed a separate examination and holds a technical degree the patent office accepts. It is a different qualification from a law licence, and not every lawyer who litigates patents holds it.

Bar admissions

  • California, active.
  • Missouri, active.
  • Texas, inactive.
  • Tennessee, inactive.

Courts

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California.
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Admission elsewhere is routine for a specific case and is arranged when a case requires it, so a court not on this list is rarely the obstacle it looks like.

Some of it is service rather than qualification.

Selected to give the baccalaureate address to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law class of 2016. Former INROADS scholar. Member of the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Earlier, an externship with the Hon. John C. Holstein of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and an internship with the Hon. Harold Lowenstein of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. Five years on the board of Northland Christian School.

A credential is a reason to take the first meeting and nothing more. What is worth weighing is on the recommendations page, where four clients, two colleagues and a former direct report describe the work at their own length.

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