I focus my practice on advising and assisting clients on a wide variety of intellectual property issues including the drafting and prosecution of patent applications. My technical expertise is in computer, electrical/electronic, and materials science technologies. I also have experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to mechanical devices and business methods. Prior to private practice, I was a patent examiner for six years in the semiconductor arts at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Before founding Timberline Patent Law Group, I worked for the prestigious law firms Lee & Hayes and Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, assisting clients with the prosecution and litigation of patents in the computer, electrical and mechanical arts.