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STU PRACTICES IN THE AREA OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING ACQUISITION OF PATENT, TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT AND TRADE SECRET RIGHTS AND DISPUTES, GENERAL ADVISING AND TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THESE ASSETS.
Stu is of counsel in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group. His practice also includes licensing and other transfers of technology and intellectual property rights, particularly for computer hardware and software businesses, publishing/entertainment businesses and authors; and disputes concerning intellectual property rights and unfair competition.
Education & Admissions
University of Illinois (A.B., Political Science, with honors; B.S., Electrical Engineering, with highest honors, 1970), Elektrotechnik study 1968-69 at Technische Universität München (exchange program)
University of Michigan (M.A., Computer and Communication Sciences, 1972)
University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1975), cum laude, Staff Member, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1973-1974
Admissions
- Minnesota
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Experience
Client Achievements
Representative Work
- Due diligence for large patent portfolio involved in medical device acquisition
- Due diligence and representation and warranty and IP assignment drafting for software business acquisition in construction field
- Management of US application filing and prosecution for Europe-based medical device company
- Open source compliance analysis for software developer in data analysis field
- Second chair on trial team in case establishing copyright protection for psychological assessment product, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), protecting scale definitions and scoring data, as well as the test “questions,” see Applied Innovatons, Inc. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota and National Computer Systems, Inc., 876 F.2d 626 (8th Cir. 1989)
News & Resources
Articles
June 26, 2014
January 19, 2011
Volume 5 | No. 3
Volume 3 | No. 5
News & Press Mentions
August 15, 2024
August 17, 2023
June 8, 2023
August 15, 2018
May 23, 2018
August 15, 2017
February 3, 2017
November 1, 2016
August 15, 2016
May 23, 2016
August 17, 2015
May 24, 2015
April 1, 2015
May 7, 2014
April 24. 2014
October 29, 2013
Events & Speaking Engagements
February 21, 2017
September 29, 2017 & December 16, 2015
“Software Patents,” Patent Resources Group, 2-1/2 day course in Florida, Washington, DC and California, co-taught with two colleagues (2001-to date; recent focus on Section 101 cases)
2001-to date
Select Presentations
- “Software Issues In Business Acquisitions,” with Apur Patel of United Healthcare, 2011 Computer Law Institute, Minnesota State Bar Association
- “Business Methods Patents for the Non-Patent Attorney” 2001 Computer Law Institute, Minnesota State Bar Association
- "Intellectual Property in Business Acquisitions," presented at Insight Information, Inc. seminar on Negotiating License Agreements - New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco (1997-2000)
- "Intellectual Property Issues In Asset And Share Purchases: Representations, Warranties, And Due Diligence," presented at American Conference Institute Seminar, Licensing and Other Intellectual Property Transactions - New York, San Francisco, Chicago (1995-1999)
- "Protecting Software, Let Us Count the Ways," presented at Dorsey & Whitney Corporate Symposium VII (1996)
Industries & Practices
Banking & Financial Institutions
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- Banking & Financial Institutions
- Creative Industries
- Educational Publishing, Technology & Services
- Emerging Companies
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Intellectual Property
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Patent Prosecution & Strategy
- Technology
- Technology Commerce
- Trademark, Copyright + Advertising
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- Member, Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
- Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Computer Law Section
- Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
- Past Board President and Board of Directors member, Minnesota Film Center/University Film Society (1981-2002)
- Adjunct Professor, Copyright Law, William Mitchell (now Mitchell-Hamline) College of Law, 1976-1979
