Attorney Profiles | Workman Nydegger

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Robert E. Aycock – 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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Matthew A. Barlow – 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 – 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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Perry N. Brown, Ph.D. – Shareholder: Dr. Brown is a registered patent attorney practicing in the firm’s patent prosecution group.
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Justin J. Cassell – Shareholder: Mr. Cassell counsels clients in all areas of United States patent practice, ranging from patent procurement to opinion preparation to licensing.
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David B. Dellenbach – 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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R. Parrish Freeman – 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 – 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 – 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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J. Dustin Howell – Shareholder: 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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Jens C. Jenkins – 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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Shane K. Jensen – 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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Adrian J. Lee – 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, optics, electronics and semiconductors fields. He holds several degrees including a Masters in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese. Mr. Lee consults with a number of U.S. and international clients. As a patent lawyer that speaks conversational Japanese and that fluently communicates in writing in Japanese, he works closely with a number of respected Japanese companies.
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Brent P. Lorimer – 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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Gregory R. Lunt – Shareholder: Mr. Lunt’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 in the areas of computer hardware, computer software, medical devices, fiber optic devices, automotive technologies, exercise equipment, portable touchscreen devices, semiconductor devices, RF devices and others. He regularly works with small businesses, large corporations and educational entities to provide U.S. and foreign patent filing strategies. Mr. Lunt has also developed strong relationships with many of the patent examiners at the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office, having conducted hundreds of in-person examiner interviews.
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Peter F. Malen Jr. – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Fraser D. Roy – 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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Marcus S. Simon – 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 – 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 – 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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Paul N. Taylor – 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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David R. Todd – Shareholder: Mr. Todd has participated as counsel in over 25 patent appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and in a number of patent actions in federal trial 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 an analysis of patent infringement and validity.
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Matthew D. Todd – 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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Thomas R. Vuksinick – 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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Scott A. Woodbury – 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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W. Brad Barger – Associate: Mr. Barger’s practice focuses on the procurement and protection of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, and copyrights. Mr. Barger has experience pursuing patent protection within a broad array of subject matters, including computer systems, telecommunications, software, plasma display circuits, mining and drilling equipment and electronics, synthetic diamond manufacturing and application, and a variety of other products and services.
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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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H. Craig Hall Jr. – Associate: Mr. Hall practices with the firm’s intellectual property litigation group.
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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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David P. Johnson – Associate: Dave Johnson is an associate in the firm's litigation section focusing on patent, trademark, unfair competition, and breach of contract litigation. Dave also has experience counseling clients with respect to patent and trademark rights and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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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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Joseph M. Shapiro – Associate: Mr. Shapiro is an associate practicing in the litigation section of the firm, practicing out of the Salt Lake City office. He works on a variety of complex intellectual property disputes, focusing primarily on patent litigation, with a particular emphasis on cases involving computer hardware and software.
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Andrew S. Hansen – Of Counsel: 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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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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