Attorney Profiles | Workman Nydegger

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Robert E. Aycock – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Aycock is a member of the firm’s litigation group. His practice includes patent, trademark, and copyright infringement actions, and trade secret, false advertising, and unfair competition cases. He also works on transactional matters such as the preparation of opinions regarding validity, infringement, unenforceability, and patentability.
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Sterling A. Brennan – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Brennan’s practice focuses on complex business and intellectual property litigation. He has handled a broad range of litigation matters involving patents, trademarks and trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, securities, antitrust, unfair business practices, insurance coverage, environmental, and other complex litigation in industries including computer components and software, biotechnology, financial institutions, real estate development and land use, and petroleum marketing.
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David B. Dellenbach – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Dellenbach’s practice has principally focused on the preparation and prosecution of chemical and mechanical patent applications, trademark applications, and licensing.
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Michael B. Dodd – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Dodd is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has extensive experience in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and licensing. Mr. Dodd has worked with a range of clients including large corporate entities, startups, and individual inventors. Mr. Dodd’s technical and legal experience makes him uniquely qualified to prosecute patent cases for clients in computer software, computer hardware, telecommunication, business method, electronic, circuitry, and semiconductor fields. Mr. Dodd has also assisted with the preparation of patent opinions as well as providing support for litigation matters.
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R. Parrish Freeman – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Freeman’s practice is focused on intellectual property litigation and enforcement including patent, trademark, and copyright infringement actions as well as trade secret, unfair competition, and Internet domain name (UDRP) disputes.
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Michael J. Frodsham – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Frodsham's practice includes preparation and prosecution of various patent, trademark, and copyright applications in the computer, chemical, and medical arts, and related strategic counseling. Mr. Frodsham also assists with the preparation of patent opinions, and provides support in litigation matters in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Frodsham represents clients ranging from small local companies and inventors to large fortune 500 companies located in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Asia. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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John M. Guynn – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Guynn has more than 20 years of experience practicing patent law. His practice includes all aspects of patent prosecution, including initial formulation of creative and broad-based patent strategies, preparation and filing of patent applications, arguments before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices, related counseling for patent portfolio management and expansion, opinions relating to freedom to operate and infringement, licensing transactions, and litigation support.
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Jens C. Jenkins – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Jenkins’ practice is primarily focused on drafting and prosecuting patents with an emphasis on prosecuting patents related to Internet technologies, software systems, business methods, and medical device patents.
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Larry R. Laycock – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Laycock is a senior member of W|N’s litigation practice group. He has extensive experience as lead trial counsel and in the handling and successful resolution of intellectual property disputes prior to litigation and trial. Mr. Laycock’s litigation practice includes patent, trademark, copyright and related complex litigation matters. He also has substantial experience in appellate, transactional, licensing, and opinions relative to intellectual property. He is experienced in a broad scope of intellectual property litigation matters, including successful representation in trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret, patent and trademark opposition and related contractual matters, licensing and other client counseling work. He has worked on cases that have presented a broad scope of technologies including pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and life sciences, material sciences, chemical deposition used in integrated circuit manufacturing, electronic data storage, medical devices, nutritional supplements, exercise equipment, thin film deposition, and complex chemical and polymer science, among others. Mr. Laycock’s litigation practice has also included substantial appellate experience. Mr. Laycock has also successfully represented his clients’ interests before arbitration and mediation panels and has successfully coordinated enforcement of his clients’ international patent portfolios throughout the European Union and Asia. Mr. Laycock has successfully handled cases before the Utah Court of Appeals, the Utah Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Supreme Court and has successfully coordinated appeals before the European Patent Office, and the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Patents Court.
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Adrian J. Lee – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Lee’s technical and legal experience makes him uniquely qualified to prosecute a wide range of patent cases for clients in the computer software, Internet, communications, electronics, circuitry, and semiconductors fields. He holds several degrees including a Masters in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelors of Science in Engineering, a Masters of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Lee practiced as an engineer at the Submicron Development Center at Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, California.
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Brent P. Lorimer – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Lorimer is a senior member of W|N’s litigation practice group. He practices in the areas of patent, trademark, copyright, licensing and trade secret disputes. His emphasis is in the areas of patent and trademark infringement and related counseling. Mr. Lorimer has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts from New York to California, as well as appearances before arbitration and mediation panels. He has also participated in reexamination and reissue proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, interference litigation in federal district court, and has counseled clients in proceedings involving in inter partes proceedings before the European Patent Office. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lorimer served his clients in complex commercial litigation. Mr. Lorimer has experience in a wide variety of technologies, including radar traffic sensors, exercise equipment, dental bleaching compositions, bridge and router hardware, dialysis catheters, blood pressure transducers, heart valves, endoluminal grafting technology and related stent methods and materials, and methods, thin film optics, nutritional supplements and industrial wastewater treatment, among others.
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Peter F. Malen Jr. – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Malen’s current practice is concerned with domestic and foreign intellectual property matters in the areas of patents and trademarks.
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Chad Nydegger – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Nydegger’s practice focuses on all aspects intellectual property, including litigation, patent prosecution, and trademark prosecution. From August 2004 to August 2005, Mr. Nydegger served as a Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for the Honorable Chief Judge Randall Rader. Mr. Nydegger’s litigation experience includes representing clients in connection with patent infringement, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition claims, and trademark oppositions before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Nydegger’s prosecution experience includes prosecution of applications for trademarks, design patents and for utility patents in the mechanical, software and nutraceutical fields.
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Rick D. Nydegger – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Nydegger is a founding shareholder, and a former officer and managing director of the firm. In the early years of his practice, he was engaged in trial practice, and assisted in successfully conducting several of the first major patent litigation matters handled by the Firm. Mr. Nydegger later developed an extensive prosecution practice, and is experienced in a variety of related intellectual property transactional matters, including preparation and drafting of opinions, licensing transactions, and conducting due diligence for the intellectual property portfolios of clients involved in early or later stage funding transactions, as well as various kinds of IP asset or corporate acquisition transactions. He currently manages many of the firm’s major clients in the electronic, software, information science, e-commerce and medical device technologies. He has also served as a mediator and arbitrator in IP cases. Mr. Nydegger has worked closely with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the development of several important policy initiatives over the years. He participated in assisting PTO personnel with the drafting of several widely used Guidelines adopted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the use of its patent examining corp when conducting examination of software related inventions. In July of 2003 he was appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Commerce to a three year term as Chair of the Patent Public Advisory Committee, which was created by statute in 1999 to advise the United States Patent and Trademark Office on matters concerning the “policies, goals, performance, budget and user fees of the USPTO with respect to patents.” 35 U.S.C. § 5(d).
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J. LaVar Oldham – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Oldham’s practice is currently centered around preparing and prosecuting patents. Mr. Oldham’s technical experience is in electrical engineering.
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Robyn L. Phillips – Equity Shareholder: Ms. Phillips’ practice includes intellectual property litigation and client counseling matters that involve intellectual property disputes. Ms. Phillips is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the Federal Circuit, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the states U.S. District Courts of Utah and Oregon.
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Carl T. Reed – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Reed’s practice primarily focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications with emphasis on computer, networking and software related applications.
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Jonathan W. Richards – Equity Shareholder: Jonathan Richards joined the firm as a shareholder in 1993, having previously worked at a firm in Dallas, Texas. He is a senior member of the firm’s patent prosecution group, and he has extensive experience in patent, trademark and copyright matters.
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Charles L. Roberts – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Roberts is a member of the firm’s litigation group. His practice focuses on complex intellectual property litigation and he has successfully litigated issues of patent infringement, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and patent antitrust violations. These cases have included a broad range of technologies including medical devices, computer software, telephone systems, computer modems, and nutritional supplements.
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Fraser D. Roy – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Roy’s practice includes preparing and prosecuting patent applications in a number of different technical fields, including general mechanical systems, computer software, medical device technologies, optical systems, and optical component processing.
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L. Rex Sears, Ph.D. – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Sears primarily represents clients in complex business and intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, and copyright; as well as securities, antitrust, real estate, false advertising, unfair business practice, tortious interference, and contract disputes. He has considerable experience addressing the difficult and complicated types of procedural issues that can arise in such litigation, including jurisdiction, finality and enforceability of judgments, and choice of law. Most of his clients are companies in technology-intensive fields, including computer hardware and software, and pharmaceuticals; or leading-edge designers and manufacturers of exercise equipment and other consumer goods.
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Marcus S. Simon – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Simon is a member of W|N’s patent and trademark prosecution groups. Mr. Simon’s practice is* *focused on patent prosecution and related counseling in a wide range of technology areas including materials science, chemistry, biotechnology, electronics, photonics, and mechanical and electro-mechanical devices. Examples of specific technologies include superabrasive and superhard materials used in polycrystalline diamond cutting elements and bearings, oil and gas exploration drilling systems, nanomaterials, physical metallurgy such as superelastic and shape memory alloys, implantable medical devices such as stents and bone implants, chemical separation devices, semiconductor devices and processing, lasers, fiber optics, and orthotic braces.
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John C. Stringham – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Stringham is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Utah Supreme Court. His practice includes all facets of intellectual property law with an emphasis on the preparation and prosecution of patent, trademark, and copyright applications in the United States and foreign countries. Mr. Stringham also engages in the preparation of licensing, publishing, and other agreements related to intellectual property as well as opinions regarding infringement, validity, and availability of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He also engages in inter partes proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and due diligence investigations regarding intellectual property portfolios. Mr. Stringham’s practice has included experience with a number of technologies including computer software/Internet, business methods, medical device and biomedical technologies, and general mechanical systems.
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Dana L. Tangren – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Tangren is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has extensive experience in patents, trademarks, and licensing. His practice includes the preparation and prosecution of United States and international patent applications in a broad range of technologies including medical device and procedures, fabrication, biomedical systems, automotive technologies, processing and containment systems, and other mechanical systems. Mr. Tangren also has an extensive practice in the preparation and prosecution of United States and international trademark applications.
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David R. Todd – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Todd has participated in a number of patent actions at both the trial and appellate levels in the federal courts on behalf of the firm’s clients. His practice focuses primarily on the summary judgment and appellate phases of patent litigation, and on client counseling matters requiring the analysis of patent infringement and validity.
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Thomas R. Vuksinick – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Vuksinick is a senior member of the firm’s litigation group. His areas of practice include the litigation of patent infringement issues, unfair competition claims, trademark infringement, false advertising, and employer/employee relations, including covenants not to compete.
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David R. Wright – Equity Shareholder: Mr. Wright’s practice focuses on complex litigation of intellectual property matters, including trade secret, copyright, patent, and trademark cases. He also has experience in transactional matters such as licensing and other contractual matters, and opinions regarding patent validity, infringement, and unenforceability.
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Michael M. Ballard – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Ballard’s practice is focused on preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications in the United States and foreign countries, including foreign trademark filings under the Madrid Protocol. Mr. Ballard also engages in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, patentability analysis of inventions, the preparation of licensing agreements, and other agreements related to intellectual property.
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Matthew A. Barlow – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Barlow works in the patent litigation group of W|N. His experience includes assisting in litigation matters involving exercise and sports equipment, household appliances, software application programs, architectural structures used in commercial and home construction.
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Thomas M. Bonacci – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Bonacci’s practice currently emphasizes the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications for filing in the United States and in foreign countries.
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Andrew S. Hansen – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Hansen’s practice is devoted primarily to preparing and prosecuting patents. Mr. Hansen’s technical expertise is in materials chemistry and biotechnology. He has experience preparing patent applications relating to nanomaterials, including nanocatalysts, nanoparticles, and carbon nanomaterials; polymer chemistry, including organic synthesis and polymer coatings; pharmaceuticals, including pharmaceutical catalysts and drug screening assays; dental compositions; medical and dental devices; semiconductor fabrication; semiconductor lasers; and petroleum refining. Mr. Hansen also assists with transaction work such as opinions regarding infringement, validity, and freedom to operate.
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Kirk R. Harris – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Harris’ practice focuses on complex litigation including patent, trademark/trade dress, trade secret, and copyright actions.
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Shane K. Jensen – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Jensen’s practice currently emphasizes preparing and prosecuting patent applications. Mr. Jensen has drafted applications directed to a wide variety of technologies including microcontrollers, integrated circuit chip design, semiconductor lasers, fiber-optics, electronic test equipment, software, and medical devices.
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Gregory R. Lunt – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Lunt’s practice is currently focused on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and foreign countries. To date he has worked on patents relating to digital display devices, laser printers, optical drives, computer architecture, software applications and methods, integrated web servers, computer networking, various forms of digital communication, and automotive technologies such as fuel injection, valve timing and detection of engine gases.
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Paul N. Taylor – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Taylor's practice currently focuses on preparing and prosecuting foreign and domestic patent applications in a variety of areas. He has drafted and prosecuted patent applications for medical devices, clean-room technologies, hydrocarbon exploration, automotive safety devices, exercise equipment, software, optics, embedded devices, consumer electronics, and other technologies. Mr. Taylor has experience in other intellectual property areas including obtaining copyright and trademark registrations and preparing intellectual property related employment agreements. He has also assisted clients in defending against patent infringement suits and has provided opinions including patentability and patent infringement opinions.
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Matthew D. Todd – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Todd's practice primarily focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications related to the chemical and mechanical arts. He has experience in patent preparation in technologies such as dental compositions, pharmaceuticals, medical and dental device technologies, polycrystalline diamond products, petroleum refining and catalysis, especially nanocatalysts, biodegradation systems, air pollution control systems, as well as sports, fitness, and exercise equipment.
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Scott A. Woodbury – Non-equity Shareholder: Mr. Woodbury is a member of W|N’s prosecution practice group. He practices in the areas of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. His emphasis is in the areas of patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution. Mr. Woodbury has successfully prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a number of technical fields including electrical, mechanical, electro-mechanical, computer hardware, computer software, medical devices, and optical technologies. Prior to law school, Mr. Woodbury worked for 16 years as an electrical engineer with a number of large and small companies gaining design and development experience in areas such as electronic hardware & software, embedded systems, avionics, communication systems, biomedical devices, and web development. His practical experience includes helping to design, test, and install the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas; assisting in the software design and development of a biomedical device that wirelessly gathers real-time physiologic data for military personnel; and work on the design of embedded hardware and software for a number of avionic test stands for the U.S. Air Force F-15 and F-16 aircraft.
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Jaimie R. Anderson, Ph.D. – Associate: Dr. Jamie Anderson is a licensed attorney practicing in the firm’s patent prosecution group.
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Seth Black – Associate: Mr. Black practices with the firm’s intellectual property litigation group. During law school, Mr. Black served as Note and Comment Editor for the Utah Law Review and President of the Student Intellectual Property Law Association. In addition, Mr. Black was a William H. Leary Scholar and a semifinalist in two moot court appellate advocacy competitions.
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Jared J. Braithwaite – Associate: Mr. Braithwaite’s practice is devoted primarily to intellectual property litigation matters.
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Perry N. Brown, Ph.D. – Associate: Dr. Brown is a registered patent attorney practicing in the firm’s patent prosecution group.
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Kirk C. Coombs – Associate: Mr. Coombs practices with the firm’s patent preparation and prosecution group, with an emphasis in software and computer engineering technologies.
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Mark W. Ford – Associate: Mr. Ford’s practice currently involves assisting with intellectual property litigation.
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H. Craig Hall Jr. – Associate: Mr. Hall practices with the firm’s intellectual property litigation group.
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Tyson Hottinger – Associate: Mr. Hottinger is a member of the firm's litigation group. His experience includes complex business and intellectual property litigation, and he has participated in a broad range of litigation matters in both state and federal courts, including patent, trademark, commercial finance, products liability, securities, partnership and business dissolution disputes. He has also had experience representing clients in mediation and arbitration matters. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California and Utah.
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J. Dustin Howell – Associate: Mr. Howell’s practice is focused on preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications in the United States and foreign countries. Mr. Howell has drafted and prosecuted applications directed to general mechanical systems, medical devices, exercise equipment, optics, and electrical devices. Mr. Howell also engages in the preparation of licensing agreements, confidentiality agreements, and other agreements related to intellectual property.
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Sarah E. Jelsema – Associate: Ms. Jelsema is an intellectual property litigation associate in Workman Nydegger’s Salt Lake City office, where she works on complex intellectual property cases, focusing primarily on patent matters.
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Gregory Jolley – Associate: Mr. Jolley’s practice is devoted to the procurement and protection of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, and copyrights. Mr. Jolley’s experience covers a broad array of subject matters, including computer systems, telecommunications, medical devices, software, exercise equipment, sporting goods, and a variety of other products and services.
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David P. Johnson – Associate: Mr. Johnson’s practice focuses on complex intellectual property litigation including patent, trademark/ trade dress, trade secret, and copyright actions. In addition, Mr. Johnson has experience drafting patent and trademark applications.
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Ryan E. Keller – Associate: Mr. Keller practices with the firm’s patent and trademark prosecution group. Mr. Keller joined Workman Nydegger after serving as a judicial intern for Justice Jill Parrish of the Utah Supreme Court.
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Timothy D. Nichols – Associate: Mr. Nichols practices with the firm’s patent and trademark prosecution group. Mr. Nichols joined Workman Nydegger following completion of his work as a law clerk to the Honorable Dee Benson at the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
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Lev Rosenblum – Associate: Mr. Rosenblum’s practice currently focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications. He has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in a number of technical fields, including mechanical devices, medical devices, semiconductors, and software. Mr. Rosenblum also has experience in complex commercial and business litigation and has argued numerous motions and conducted depositions. Prior to law school, Mr. Rosenblum was an engineer and VP of a tool & die company and has technical experience in tool & die design and precision manufacturing. Mr. Rosenblum also co-founded a medical device startup company.
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Brian Tucker – Associate: Mr. Tucker practices with the firm’s patent prosecution group with emphasis in the field of computer software and hardware.
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Vernon R. Rice – Of Counsel: Mr. Rice serves as Of Counsel in the firm. He practices in the area of domestic and international patent prosecution, and also teaches courses at the Brigham Young University Law School as well as representing the firm in many community activities and entrepreneurial and innovation programs. He has broad experience in industrial chemistry, polymer chemistry, life science and biochemistry technologies. Mr. Rice joined Workman Nydegger in 2004 after retiring from a distinguished career at DuPont, where he served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, overseeing all DuPont intellectual property work, including that of domestic and international subsidiaries. While at DuPont his experience included prosecution of chemical patent applications in the United States and major countries of the world; managing an international patent and trade secret licensing program; and overseeing a 75 lawyer intellectual property law group that handled all of DuPont’s intellectual property legal work including patent procurement and litigation, and aspects of DuPont’s biotechnology portfolio.
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