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Curriculum Vitae of N. Stephan Kinsella
• KinsellaLaw Bio
MAY 2004
N. Stephan Kinsella
Attorney at Law
N. Stephan Kinsella, P.C.
Houston, TX
713-416-0006 (cell)
281-966-6988 (fax)
Email: stephan -at- KinsellaLaw -dot- com
• Brief Professional Bio
• Libertarian-related Bio
• Personal Information
• Publications
EDUCATION
LL.M. (International Business Law) (1991-1992), King's College London--
University of London
J.D. (1988-1991), Paul M. Hebert Law
Center, Louisiana State University
M.S. Electrical Engineering (1987-1990), Louisiana
State University
B.S. Electrical Engineering (1983-1987), Louisiana
State University
- E.E. emphasis: computer/microprocessor architecture & design; digital systems and logic;
neural networks; parallel processing & algorithms and distributed computing;
algorithm design and analysis; fiber optics; programming; computer telecommunications
EXPERIENCE
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI),
Houston, Texas • 10/2000-present
- General Counsel, Vice President-Intellectual Property & Assistant Secretary
- Administer and handle AOI's IP Protection Strategy; patent
and trademark prosecution, licensing, and IP portfolio management.
- Handle various legal matters, including: venture capital, contract preparation and review, corporate law, board matters,
export licenses, immigration/H-1B visas, employment/HR, etc.
- Supervision of legal affairs of the company and outside counsel.
- In charge of organizing company crawfish boils and provision of cigars and scotch on as-needed basis.
Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania & Houston, Texas • 8/1997-10/2000
- Partner (1/2000-10/2000), Associate (1997-2000), IP Dept.
- International Law Practice Group; Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Practice Group; Y2K Task Force
- Opened Houston Office, 12/1997
Schnader Harrison LLP, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania • 5/1994-7/1997
- Associate, IP Dept.; also Internet Law and Computer
Networking Practice Group
Jackson Walker L.L.P., Houston, Texas
• 9/1992-4/1994
- Associate, IP and Energy Sections; also International Law Practice Group
Law firm experience has focused on patent and trademark prosecution, licensing,
and counseling, and related aspects of IP and Internet-related law.
Patent & IP law: Patent prosecution in a wide array of technologies, including
video and signal processing, computer hardware and software, electronics and
electro-mechanical technology, IC fabrication, and optoelectronics. IP litigation
support, licensing, international aspects of IP matters, and Internet-related
law. Appeals briefs to PTO; preparation of infringement and validity opinions;
preparation of trademark applications, response letters and appeals briefs to
Trademark Commissioner. Preparation of and advice regarding software and patent
licenses. Computer- and Internet-related law, including advice concerning
trademark disputes related to Internet domain names, copyright registration
of web-site-related works. Editor of the Oceana treatises
Trademark Practice and Forms and
World Online Business Law.
Other: International: Involvement in litigation freezing assets of
foreign defendants, preparation of letters rogatory through Hague Inter-American
Convention; advised clients on U.S. export controls applicable to computer-related
exports; published several articles and book concerning international law relating
to investments in developing nations; served as judge in regional rounds of
1993 and 1994 Jessup International Moot Court Competition
held at South Texas
College of Law. Evaluate and advise on draft foreign investment laws of Lithuania,
Russia (Nizhny Novgord oblast), and Romania for ABA Central and East European Law Initiative.
Author of Foreign Investment Under International Law:
Legal Aspects of Political Risk; editor of
Digest of Commercial Laws of the World. Oil & Gas: Preparation of title opinions
covering Texas, Louisiana, and Federal Offshore producing properties, and related
acquisitions; preparation and review of offshore and onshore oilfield service
contracts, infrastructure facilities operating agreements, and similar operating
agreements; preparation of amicus curiae briefs to Texas Supreme Court.
LICENSED TO PRACTICE: Texas (1992), Louisiana (1992; inactive), Pennsylvania (1994; inactive),
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (1994)
AFFILIATIONS
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) (LSU
Chapter President, 1987); Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society)
(LSU Chapter President, 1987); Board of Directors, Houston Chapter, The Federalist Society (1997-1999); Development
Council, LSU Law Alumni Association; American
Intellectual Property Law Association; Editor-in-Chief/Founding
member, PBA IP Law Section Newsletter,
1997-1998; Chair, Computer Law Subcommittee, Federalist Society
IP Practice Group; Adjunct Scholar, Ludwig von Mises Institute; Counsel, The
Liberty Committee; Associate Editor, Ron Paul Liberty in Media Awards.
HONORS
- LSU Law Alumni Association Scholarship; LSU Alumni Federation Scholarship;
T.H. Harris Scholarship; American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts
- the Mises Institute's O.P. Alford III Prize for scholarly article
published during 2001-2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, awarded at the
eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002, Auburn, Alabama, for the
article Against Intellectual
Property, Spring 2001, Journal
of Libertarian Studies
TEACHING AND SPEAKING
South Texas College of Law, Houston: Adjunct
professor (Computer Law) Fall 1998, 1999
Also: Variety of speeches, papers and activities related to legal and political
topics, including speeches before: Federalist Society, Philadelphia Chapter,
regarding the Ninth Amendment (May 6, 1997); Federalist Society, Philadelphia
Chapter, regarding legal codes and systems (September 9, 1997); Internet Service
Provider Liability Seminar, Philadelphia (June 1996); The Freeman Society of
Valley Forge (Mar. 4, 1996); Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (Jan.
27, 1996); and LSU Mineral Law Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (March 1994);
Planning Committee Member & Speaker, 1998 Oil & Gas Law Institute, South
Texas College of Law [present paper on Patents and Intellectual Property in
the Oil & Gas Industry; Aug. 1998]; Judge, Jessup
International Law Moot
Court Competition, Houston, Texas(1993 & 1994); Chair, Scholars of the
Austrian School panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April
5, 1997); Chair and paper, Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom,
Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April
3, 1998); speaker/panelist, Union panel, HOBY Texas Gulf Coast 1998 Leadership
Seminar, Rice University; paper, A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title
Transfer, and Inalienability, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference,
Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999); Planning Committee Member & Moderator,
1999 Energy Law Institute, South Texas
College of Law, Aug. 1999; Speaker, Crime,
Punishment and Restitution, Liberal Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, May
27, 1999; panelist, Twenty-Second Internatonal Conference on the Unity of Sciences,
Military and Police--Public or Private? committee, Seoul, Korea, February
9-13, 2000; paper, The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property, Law and Economics
panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March 25, 2000); chair,
Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March
30-31, 2001); faculty,
Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (July 28-Aug. 2, 2002).
NSK ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
See www.stephankinsella.com/publications
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