Michael Coblenz: Attorney Profile

 

Education:

 

LLM (Intellectual Property Law) University of Houston, May 1998

 

JD Gonzaga University, May 1994   

 

MA (History) Eastern Washington University, March 1991

 

BS (Mechanical Engineering) University of Illinois, January 1983

 

Bar and Court Admissions:

 

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, 2005

State Bar of Kentucky, May 2003

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, January 1997

State Bar of Texas, November 1998(Inactive)

State Bar of Washington 1994 (Inactive)

 

Professional Associations:

 

Kentucky Bar Association

Fayette County Bar Association

National Association of Patent Practitioners   

American Bar Association

 

Previous Professional Employment:

 

Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP, Houston, Texas.

Nov. 2000 - May 2002

Intellectual property and litigation associate attorney.

 

Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, Houston, Texas.

May 1999 - Nov. 2000

Intellectual property and litigation associate attorney.

 

Contract Attorney, Seattle, WA. & Houston, TX

May 1994 - May 1997

Various contract positions at firms in Seattle and Houston, involving intellectual property and general litigation matters. 

 

United States Air Force

June 1983 - June 1990

Civil Engineer, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE (1983 - 1985)

B-52 Navigator, Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA (1986 - 1990)

Final Rank: Captain.     

 

 

Legal Publications:

 

"Not for Entertainment Only: Fair Use and Fiction as Social Commentary," 16 UCLA Entertainment Law Review 265 (2009).

 

"An Unenumerated Right: Two Views on the Right of Privacy," 40 Texas Tech Law Review 249 (2008) (with Judge Harold R. DeMoss, Jr.). 

 

"How the Seizure of Counterfeit Goods Can Go Bad," 3 Minnesota Intellectual Property Review 59 (2002).

 

"Intellectual Property Crimes," 9 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology 235 (1999).

 

"Criminal Punishment of Trade Secret Theft," A.B.A. Intellectual Property Law Newsletter,

Spring 1997.

 

"The Economic Espionage Act of 1996: Punishing Trade Secret Theft," Washington State Bar News, September 1997.

 

Book Reviews

 

"Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age," The Federal Lawyer, October 2009.

 

"Einstein: His Life and Universe," 89 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 826 (October 2007).

 

"The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy," The Federal Lawyer, August 2006.

 

"Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture," The Federal Lawyer, May 2006.

 

"Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment," Intervention Magazine, May 27, 2005.

 

"Electronic Evidence and Discovery," The Federal Lawyer, May 2005.

 

"Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law," The Federal Lawyer, November/December 2004.

 

"Black Invertors in the Age of Segregation," The Federal Lawyer, July 2004.

 

"Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law," The Federal Lawyer, March/April 2004.

 

"Mugged by the State: Outrageous Government Assaults on Ordinary People and Their Property," The Federal Lawyer, March/April 2004

 

Retraction: "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," The Federal Lawyer, October 2002. 

 

"What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States," The Federal Lawyer, August 2002. 

 

"Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," The Federal Lawyer, January/February 2001.