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Thomas E. Bahrman
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Email: tbahrman@nsslaw.com
Tom Bahrman practices in the area of business
transactions and planning, with emphasis in technology
and computer law. His interests in public policy lead
him to participate in the OSB's Computer and Electronic
Information Workgroup advising the 2001 and 2003 Oregon
Legislatures on legal issues related to the technology
industry. He was actively involved in passage of ORS
84.001 to 84.061, effective June 22, 2001, adopting the
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). Tom received
his law degree from Willamette University College of
Law, and earned a Master of Business Administration
degree from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management
at Willamette. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in
Computer Science/Business, with a minor in Mathematics,
at the University of Puget Sound.
Jacob J. Carroll
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Email:
jacob.carroll@digimarc.com
Jacob J. Carroll is in-house counsel to
Digimarc Corporation located in Beaverton, Oregon.
His work focuses predominately on intellectual property
and information technology transactions concerning
digital watermarking and identification solutions.
Previously, he was an Assistant Attorney General in the
Department of Justice, General Counsel, Business
Transactions Section, Intellectual Property and
Information Technology Group working on technology
transfers, sponsored research agreements, intellectual
property and information technology contracts. Jacob
graduated from the University of Washington School of
Law (LL.M), Syracuse University (J.D., M.S., cum laude),
and Marquette University (B.A.). He was admitted to the
Oregon Bar in 2003.
Martin Francis
Medeiros
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Email:
mmedeiros@smhllaw.com
Martin F. Medeiros practices at Preston Gates & Ellis
LLP in the firm's Intellectual Property and Global
Telecommunications and Media Groups. Martin has
extensive experience drafting, negotiating and
establishing manufacturing and telecommunications
services for North American companies in China. He
represents clients, domestically and internationally, in
the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer
and commercial law. He works with startups, as well as
publicly traded entities in various industries,
including information technology, telecommunications,
e-commerce, biotechnology, alternative energy,
manufacturing, broadcasting and professional services.
He advises and negotiates on behalf of publicly traded
companies that acquire or alienate patents, trade
secrets, copyrights, trademarks and other assets. Prior
to joining Preston Gates, Martin managed technology
acquisition teams for large publicly traded
corporations.
Martin is a frequent lecturer and author on topics such
as telecommunications transactions, open source product
development, intellectual property valuation,
outsourcing, technology labor, and technology transfer.
Martin is chair-elect of the Oregon State Bar Computer
and Internet Law Section and is on the board of
directors of the Oregon Law Institute, Oregon Bioscience
Association and Portland Media Access.
ESIN ONART
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Email:
esin_onart@credence.com
Renee E. Rothauge
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Email:
renee.rothauge@bullivant.com
Renée Rothauge is a Pacific Northwest trial attorney
specializing in intellectual property and complex
business disputes. She also leads the firm's
intellectual property group.
Recently, Chambers USA named her one of Oregon’s
top commercial litigators having "come to the attention
of peers and clients during a number of large scale jury
trials." Ms. Rothauge has tried multimillion dollar
cases to verdict for DOW AgroSciences (a subsidiary of
The Dow Chemical Co.), Asiana Airlines (a subsidiary of
the Khumo Tire Group) and other Pacific Northwest
businesses.
She serves on the Executive Committee for Oregon State
Bar’s Business Litigation and Computer/Internet Law
sections. Ms. Rothauge carries an AV designation by
Martindale Hubbell and was recognized as an Oregon Super
Lawyer in intellectual property litigation. She was also
selected by Oregon Super Lawyers as one of Oregon's Top
25 women lawyers.
Ms. Rothauge works in the biotechnology, aeronautics,
computer and high-tech, e-commerce and real estate
industries. She also represents retailers and
distributors of branded products, professional service
providers and elder care and nursing facilities owners.
Ms. Rothauge’s current scope of representative trial
experience:
Successfully tried a breach of lease and declaratory
judgment action against a large regional hotel chain
over a land and facility lease.
Successfully defended a claim of trade secret
misappropriation and breach of a non-compete agreement
for a healthcare provider.
Successfully defended a patent infringement case
involving canola oil and obtaining a favorable ruling of
inequitable conduct (currently on appeal before the
Federal Circuit).
Successfully defended an investment firm in a
misappropriation of trade secret case.
Successfully defended a claim for breach of an
international aircraft lease.
Successfully defended a contractor for claims stemming
from the construction of a faulty storm drain system.
Her intellectual property experience includes litigating
a trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement
case for an Oregon biotechnology company, and a trade
secret misappropriation, breach of non-competition
agreement and patent infringement case for an
international wood product equipment company. She has
handled copyright cases for talent, handled over 40
trademark infringement matters, and handled numerous
domain name/cybersquatting disputes.
Ms. Rothauge also litigates partner and corporate
shareholder disputes, including executive divorces. She
has advised on and litigated well over 50
non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure
agreements.
Lydia Pallas Loren
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Email:
loren@lclark.edu
Lydia Pallas Loren, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law
School in Portland, Oregon. Professor Loren teaches and
writes in the fields of copyright and cyberspace law.
Her casebook, COPYRIGHT IN A GLOBAL INFORMATION ECONOMY
(2d Ed. Aspen 2006) (with Cohen, Okediji, and O’Rourke),
has been adopted at over 40 law schools. Professor
Loren’s law review articles include: Slaying the
Leather-Winged Demons in the Night: Copyright Misuse as
a Tool for Reforming Copyright Owner Contracting
Behavior, 30 OHIO N.U.L. REV. 495 (2004); Untangling the
Web of Music Copyrights, 53 CASE WESTERN RESERVE L. REV.
673 (2003); The Changing Nature of Derivative Works in
the Face of New Technologies, 4 J. OF SMALL & EMERGING
BUS. L. 57 (2000); Digitization, Commodification,
Criminalization: The Evolution of Criminal Copyright
Infringement and the Importance of the Willfulness
Requirement, 77 WASH. UNIV. L. QUART. 835 (1999);
Redefining the Market Failure Approach to Fair Use in an
Era of Copyright Permission Systems, 5 J. OF INTEL.
PROP. L. 1 (1997). Professor Loren received her law
degree from the University of Michigan School of Law,
Magna Cum Laude, member Order of the Coif. For more
information on Professor Loren visit http://www.lclark.edu/~loren.
For more information on COPYRIGHT IN A GLOBAL
INFORMATION ECONOMY visit
http://www.coolcopyright.com.
Heather R. Self
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Email:
Heather_Self@adp.com
Heather R. Self is a Business Alliance Manager for the
Dealer Services Division of
Automatic
Data Processing, Inc. Her practice emphasizes
software licensing, development, distribution and
service agreements and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Automatic Data Processing, Inc.,
Heather worked as General Counsel for DecisionPoint
Software. Heather has been a member of the Oregon and
Washington State Bars since 2001. She obtained her J.D.
from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark
College and a B.A. in History from the University of
Memphis. Heather chaired the Luncheon CLE subcommittee
of the CILS in 2006.
MARINUS DAMM
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Email:
marinus.damm@speakeasy.net
After serving in the U.S. Navy, Marinus returned to
community college and then to the University of
Washington. He holds a B.S. in Robotic Heuristics.
Several years in Manufacturing Engineering for
commercial airline propulsion systems were followed by
several years in System, Network & Database
Administration for dot-com businesses.
Debating Copyright questions with co-workers, he
realized that more legal knowledge would be an
advantage, and entered the University of Washington
School of Law full time. He held his dot-com job until
he graduated and moved to Portland.
He is a member of the bar in Oregon and in Washington.
He volunteers his time to Multnomah Legal Aid, and
handles open-source licensing questions for a small
software company in Portland. For 2007, he chairs the
Luncheon CLE subcommittee of the CILS
John Stevason
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Email:
stevasonj@lanepowell.com
John is a past Chair of the Computer and Internet Law
Section. He is a shareholder at Lane Powell PC where he
chaired the Intellectual Property and Internet Practice
Group. John also chairs the Intellectual Property
Committee of the United States Law Firm Group, a network
of nineteen major U.S. law firms. John was an editor and
author of the OSB’s Computer Law Handbook. John has been
practicing computer law since 1983. John received his
J.D. from New York University and an A.B. in Physics
from Princeton University. He can be reached at (503)
778-2144.
Robert A. Swider
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Email:
robert@swider.com
Robert Swider is a sole practitioner who maintains his
law office in downtown Portland. He is a graduate of
Seton Hall University in New Jersey and Northwestern
School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. He has been a
practicing attorney in the Portland area since 1982.
Robert’s practice includes the representation of
individuals and businesses in diverse industries. He has
substantial experience in civil litigation, copyright
law, trademark law, computer law, the representation of
technology-related businesses and the representation of
plaintiffs in personal injury cases. Robert has been an
active member of the Executive Committee of the Computer
and Internet Law Section of the Oregon State Bar for
more than a decade. He has served as a member of the
Executive Committee and as chair. Robert is a frequent
speaker, author, editor and program planner for seminars
geared to members of the legal profession.
KAREN DANA OSTER
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Email:
karen@kdopatent.com
Karen Dana Oster is a patent prosecutor who specializes
in obtaining patents for software, business methods,
mechanical devices, and electrical apparatus. Her
practice focuses on writing patent applications and
guiding them through the patent prosecution process at
the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Karen
also regularly prepares patentability, noninfringement,
and infringement opinions. Strategic analysis and
counseling regarding intellectual property portfolios is
another service she offers her clients.
Karen has been a practicing patent prosecutor since
1993. Before that, she obtained a BA in English from
University of California Santa Barbara, a BS in Computer
Engineering from California State University Long Beach,
and a JD from Loyola Law School. Between 1995 and 2001,
Karen co-authored the Federal Circuit Patent Case
Digests published by West Group. Karen served on the
executive committee of the Oregon State Bar Intellectual
Property Section between 1994 and 2002, including being
chair in 2001. More information can be found at
www.kdopatent.com.
Timothy E. Siegel
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Email:
tes@intproplaw.com
Timothy E. Siegel is a patent attorney in solo practice
with an emphasis on protecting and licensing
applications of high technology, such as medical device
technology, Internet telephony, Internet software and
new concepts in power electronics. He counsels publicly
traded companies, emerging companies and individual
innovators. Tim is a lecturer and author on the legal
protection of software and the patenting process in
general.
Tim is a graduate of Loyola Law School of Los Angeles,
where he served on Law Review and the Trial Advocacy
Team. He also has an MS in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Southern California and a BS in
Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University. He
is a member of the ABA and the IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers).
Michael A. Cohen
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Email:
mcohen@schwabe.com
Mike Cohen is a shareholder with
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt and co-chair of
Schwabe's Intellectual Property Practice. He focuses his
practice in the areas of patent, trademark and copyright
licensing; counseling, prosecution, enforcement and
litigation of trademark, trade dress, trade secret and
copyright rights; technology transfer; IP due diligence
for mergers and acquisitions; internet/e-commerce
counseling; domain name and website issues; and
entertainment, media and advertising law, including
negotiating and enforcing book, music and movie deals
and royalty agreements.
Mark Visnick
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Email:
marc@visnick.com
PAULA HOLM JENSEN
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Email:
paulahj@tonkon.com
Paula Holm Jensen is co-chair of
Tonkon
Torp's Technology, Trade and Intellectual Property
practice group. Her experience includes over a dozen
years handling technology and business transactions with
an emphasis on intellectual property matters. She has
represented technology companies from startups to
Fortune 1000 businesses, in a range of industries,
including software, semiconductor, display, e-commerce,
data services, Internet and telecommunications.
Paula's practice emphasizes licensing, development,
manufacturing, distribution and service agreements. Her
experience includes IP strategy and auditing, copyright
counseling and registration, patent and trademark
licenses, music licensing and promotion, advertising and
merchandising agreements. She also advises companies on
corporate, financing and mergers and acquisition
matters.
Recognized in Best Lawyers in America in the area of
information technology law, she also served as the chair
of the Oregon State Bar Intellectual Property Section in
2004. Prior to joining Tonkon Torp in 2006, Paula ran
her own law firm, Holm Jensen Law LLC, for three years.
MARTI McCAUSLAND
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Email:
marti.mccausland@techlaw.com
Marti McCausland practices at
Marger
Johnson & McCollom PC. She primarily assists both
start up businesses and established companies in
securing patent rights in computer technology. Marti
obtained her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law
and she received a B.A. in Mathematics at Smith College.
Prior to law school, Marti worked in the computer
industry as a software engineer.
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