| Education | J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1990 | M.B.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1984 | B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983 |
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| Admitted to Practice | - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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| Doug Weider, a former Bell Labs software engineer, has significant experience litigating a wide array of technology matters including patent disputes, software development contracts, class actions involving computer architecture design, and trade secret matters. He has successfully tried such cases before courts and arbitration panels. |
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| Areas of Concentration |
- Patent litigation
- Computer and software litigation
- Intellectual property counseling
- Technology litigation
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| Significant Representations | - Obtained favorable arbitration ruling that software developer was not entitled to $15 million sought based on evidence that software was not able to perform according to specifications.
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Represented major telecommunications company in a successful trial overturning a Florida county's tax assessment on telecommunication switches because the switch software was not "embedded" as defined in the governing statute and thus not subject to property tax.
- Prevailed in defense of multi-million dollar class action suit against leading desktop computer manufacturer through testimony establishing that plaintiffs' alleged performance issues were the result of changes they had made to their own computers, not a common computer defect.
- Represented major consumer electronics company in various patent infringement matters.
- Represented bar code scanner manufacturer in multi-million dollar patent infringement litigation involving patents directed to digital decoding of bar code scanning signals, optical filtering, and laser scan pattern generation.
- Represented major pharmaceutical company in a series of patent litigations against generic manufacturers.
- Defended medical imaging equipment manufacturer against theft of trade secret claims.
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| Clerkship | - Law clerk, Judge Oliver Gasch, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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| Articles, Publications, & Lectures | Articles
- Notes Editor, George Washington University Law Review
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