DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts, physics, University of Utah
Master of Arts, physics (minor in mathematics), University of Utah
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Harvard University
HONORS
National Merit Scholarship finalist
Recipient of a National Honor Society Scholarship (awarded by the National Association of Secondary School Principals)
Recipient of a University of Utah Merit Scholarship in physics
Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship (fellowship)
Member of Pi Mu Epsilon (a national honor society in mathematics)
Member of Phi Kappa Phi
Member of Phi Beta Kappa
Winner of the L. H. Kirkpatrick Award for being the graduating senior at the University of Utah in 1967 with the highest cumulative grade point average (3.95 from a possible 4.00 when the average grade given at the University of Utah was approximately 2.10 and when pass‑fail grading existed only for required courses in physical education)
Recipient of the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal as a result of extraordinary success in litigating for the Department of Defense
Named by Utah Business Magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite in Intellectual Property
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Instability of the Threshold Voltage for Aluminum-Silicon Nitride-Silicon Dioxide-Silicon Field-Effect Transistors (master’s thesis, A plus graduation with distinction--a rather rare honor in the Physics Department, University of Utah)
Proposed Legal Controls for the Cloning of Human Beings (A-, Harvard Law School)
Proposal for and Analysis of a Constitutionally Acceptable Plan to Control the Behavior of Human Beings through Electrical Stimulation of Their Brains (A-, Harvard Law School)
History and Present Legal and Physical Status of the Utilization of Oil Shale on the Public Domain (A, Harvard Law School)
What Is Clean Water?--an Analysis of Federal Statutes Enacted to Control Water Pollution in the United States (A, Harvard Law School)
Multiple Use in the National Forests of the United States (A-, Harvard Law School)
Availability of Water for the Development of Coal and Oil Shale in the Western United States (B+, Harvard Law School)
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
Member, State Bar Association of California
Member, State Bar Association of Utah
Member, State Bar Association of Wisconsin
Registered Attorney, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Multiengine-, Instrument-rated Private Pilot
EMPLOYMENT
Summer
Engineering Aide; Bridger-Teton National Forest, Jackson, Wyoming
This position involved surveying for roads, performing tests in the laboratory as well as in the field to determine the quality of highways being built for the United States Forest Service by private contractors, and functioning as the project engineer’s representative at various construction sites.
Engineering Aide; Sawtooth National Forest, Twin Falls, Idaho
This work consisted of surveying for roads and property boundaries plus fighting occasional forest and range fires.
Physicist; Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California 93555
The primary task associated with this assignment was determining the electrical characteristics of various photoconductive devices.
Permanent
Physicist and Electronic Engineer; Naval Weapons Center
China Lake, California 93555
Duration: six years (including time spent at law school for which a leave of absence was granted in order to encourage a return to scientific and engineering disciplines)
This endeavor was predominantly composed of studying numerous semiconductive devices to understand the relationship between their physical and chemical structures and their electrical characteristics, developing circuit models of semiconductors to facilitate the design of electronic circuits employing such components, and creating mathematical models of electrical devices for the analysis and design of control circuitry. Additionally, this job entailed reviewing certain answers by the Navy to a legal action brought by the Raytheon Corporation for breach of contract and preparing a memorandum describing the duties of the Commander of the Naval Weapons Center with respect to environmental protection.
Attorney; Bucyrus-Erie Company
1100 Milwaukee Avenue, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53172
Duration: two years
The major responsibilities of this position were: advising corporate officers and executives concerning the existence of and methods for complying with Federal, state, and foreign laws applicable to the corporation; drafting legal documents; and preparing and maintaining a detailed legal analysis of the basis for any advice given or document drafted. Accomplishing such tasks required a knowledge of corporate, contractual, and commercial law not only for each state in the United States, but also for a variety of foreign countries. Similarly essential was an understanding of domestic and foreign laws regarding intellectual property. And, besides dealing with these major legal categories, the performance of the duties connected with this employment demanded the formulation of appropriate responses to practically all of the types of legal questions that confront a corporation doing business internationally--ranging from those involving securities to others concerning real property and labor law.
Attorney; Jensen & Lloyd (a small law firm in Salt Lake City, Utah, which has dissolved)
Duration: eight years
Providing general business advisory and adversarial legal services (encompassing even some securities law), rendering advice with respect to intellectual property, conducting legal actions under the Uniform Commercial Code, litigating cases arising from disputes over real property (including issues related to zoning and civil rights), preparing documents for the transfer of title to interests in real property, appearing at proceedings before state and Federal agencies charged with protection of the environment and management of natural resources, handling medical malpractice suits, and planning for the administration as well as the disposition of estates constituted the principal activities associated with this undertaking. The attendant litigative efforts, moreover, entailed all facets of successful appellate practice before the Utah Supreme Court.
Regional Counsel; Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service
500 West 12th Street, Ogden, Utah 84407-5001
Duration: six years
The primary duty of this position was assuring that hazardous wastes from military installations within fifteen western states were processed in compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements. This mainly involved utilizing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act together with related state laws--most often those of California. Such work did, however, also necessitate dealing with third-party liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act plus negotiating and drafting agreements among the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, and state environmental agencies pursuant to the military version of Superfund. Additionally, the Clean Water Act was given some consideration. And a minor amount of time was devoted to environmentally oriented patent questions as well as contractual issues associated with the purchase by the Federal Government of services for the disposal of hazardous wastes. Performing the preceding tasks contemporaneously with a subsidiary responsibility for handling challenges to the Federal Government concerning labor disputes and alleged civil rights violations created, moreover, numerous opportunities for appearances before both administrative bodies and the Federal courts.
Attorney; Olson & Hoggan
88 West Center, P.O. Box 525, Logan, Utah 84323-0525
Duration: four years
This practice concentrated upon the provision of advisory and adversarial services concerning patent, trademark, copyright, environmental, and general business law. The intellectual property endeavors included prosecution of applications before the appropriate administrative entities as well as litigation for patent and trademark infringement. Patent applications were prepared in the electrical, chemical, biochemical, and mechanical fields. Foreign patent filings have been coordinated with local counsel in a variety of countries. The environmental matters principally entailed representing--before Federal and state administrative and judicial tribunals--corporate clients facing liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (including the underground storage tank program); the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act; the Clean Air Act; and the Clean Water Act as well as analogous state statutes. Clients ranged from high technology firms to large agricultural operations.
Attorney; Fehr Law Firm
Suite 300, Goldenwest Corporate Center, 5025 Adams Avenue, Ogden, Utah 84403
Duration: ten years (as of the present time)
This law firm maintains the representation discussed for Olson & Hoggan while expanding it to a regional practice. The provision of advice concerning environmental, intellectual property, and other business matters continues, as does litigation in these areas. Patent prosecution encompasses preparing and prosecuting patent applications concerning electrical (general electrical, electro-optical, electro-mechanical, electrostatic, and avionic), chemical, biotechnical, mechanical, and composition of matter (composite materials) inventions as domestic original applications in the United States, domestic applications filed in the United States based on foreign original applications, domestic applications filed in the United States based on PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) applications initiated in foreign countries, and foreign applications based on domestic applications filed previously in the United States. Original PCT applications are, also, prepared for filing in the United States Patent and Trademark Office with the European Patent Office often being used as the International Searching Authority and the International Preliminary Examining Authority. Trademark prosecution is also undertaken for the United States and foreign countries as additionally, for the United States, is copyright protection. Litigation in state and Federal courts is concentrated upon cases involving technical subject matter, such as patent infringement, trade secret violations, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, trade dress infringement, environmental issues, and inventorship (35 U.S.C § 256) as well as ownership of intellectual property. Patent prosecution is done on a regular basis with intellectual property attorneys throughout Europe as well as in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and India; patent infringement work has been done in conjunction with German patent attorneys and litigators.
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
Courses of study are regularly attended both in the United States and in Europe, principally in the disciplines of patent law, environmental law, and practice before the Federal Courts
While working as an attorney for the United States Department of Defense, the Government Contract Attorney’s Course was completed at the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General’s School on the campus of the University of Virginia; and an Environmental Law Course was completed at the United States Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s School in the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
LITERACY CONCERNING COMPUTERS
Familiarity with computerized, as well as traditional, methods of legal research
Frequent utilization of computers for word processing (employing Microsoft Word as well as WordPerfect) and the transmission of data
Regular use of the Internet to conduct basic patent searches and to determine the latest changes to regulations and fees in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as the European Patent Office and various foreign national patent offices
LINGUISTIC ABILITY
Command of Spanish and German sufficient to facilitate traveling as a tourist in Europe and to permit the utilization of German technical publications as aids in performing scientific research and studying prior art patents
Some knowledge of Latin
A desire to learn additional languages
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