| EXPERIENCE: Richard G. Frenkel is Of Counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he specializes in intellectual property and patent litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Rick was director of intellectual property for consumer and emerging technologies at Cisco Systems. In this role, he managed patent litigation, advised the company on patent assertions and potential patent-purchase opportunities, negotiated patent licenses, and counseled various Cisco businesses on IP strategy, including the wireless networking business unit and the media solutions group. In addition, Rick was responsible for analyzing the IP issues involved in mergers and acquisitions and monitoring China-related intellectual property issues. Rick previously was an associate at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, where he engaged in all aspects of IP litigation, including conducting pre-filing investigations, drafting and arguing discovery motions, participating in jury trials, and drafting pleadings, post-trial motions, briefs, and motions for appeals. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at Lyon & Lyon and also served as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where he taught brief-writing and appellate advocacy to moot court teams. Before embarking upon his legal career, Rick held engineering positions at Allied-Signal and GE Aircraft Engines. He is the lead inventor on U.S. Patent No. 5,267,435 for engine-thrust droop compensation.
EDUCATION: - J.D., Loyola Law School, 1999
Magna Cum Laude; Graduated first in his class; Recipient, 11 AmJur Awards, including civil procedure, patent, copyright, and antitrust; Chief Production Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review; Winner of the Giles S. Rich Patent Moot Court national competition - M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
Summa Cum Laude - B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1987
Magna Cum Laude; Valedictorian (engineering)
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: - Regional Board Member, Anti-Defamation League
- Evaluator/Tester, Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse (2006-2008)
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SELECT PUBLICATIONS: - Co-author with L. Brill, et al., "Overview of Recent Circuit Splits," Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 2005 (wrote section on split in Lanham Act extraterritoriality) and February 2005 (wrote section on split in copyright law jurisdiction based on registration)
- "Intellectual Property in the Balance: Proposals for Improving Industrial Design in the Post-TRIPs Era," 32 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 531, 1999
SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: - Panelist, "Cost Control in IP Litigation," 8th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute, November 2007
- "Stating the Obvious: Patent Protection after KSR," Managing IP webinar, May 2007
- "Managing the IP Legal Department," Atlanta General Counsel Roundtable, April 2007
- "From Sewing Machines to Video Machines: 150 Years of Patent Pools," Patent Pools and Proactive Licensing Strategies Conference, March 2007
- "Patent Ownership and Transfer in China: Comparisons with U.S. Law," 3rd Annual Conference on Building and Enforcing IP Value in China, January 2007
- Panelist, "IP Transactional Intermediaries—Who Are They and What Do They Do?" panel co-sponsored by Licensing Executive Society and High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University, October 2006
- Panelist, "Phillips v. AWH: Will It Change Claim Construction as We Know It?" Los Angeles Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, May 2005
- Panelist, "Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, or Inspector Clouseau: Investigating the Scope of Presuit Investigations," Los Angeles Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, September 2004
ADMISSIONS: - State Bar of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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