Kenyon & Kenyon Llp

Gary S. Morris is a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon. He specializes in identifying and resolving patent, trademark and copyright issues that arise in the field of computer science. He has counseled both large and small companies with regard to software patents, licensing and trademarks in the fields of digital rights management, cryptography, trusted computing and network services. Besides his law degree from Georgetown University, Mr. Morris has degrees in physics (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and applied mathematics (State University of New York at Stony Brook). He has extensive work experience in the field of computer security and telecommunications, which he acquired while doing work for the National Security Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, before becoming an attorney.

Cindy Wagner is a case manager with the litigation team at Kenyon & Kenyon. She has been in the legal field for over 30 years working primarily in litigation. Cindy has served SCCoLPA for many years in a variety of capacities including President (SFLSA).

Aaron Johnson, based in the New York office, joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in 2008. Mr. Johnson graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and received a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School. While at law school, Mr. Johnson served as a member of the George Washington University Law Review.

Andy grew up in Santa Clara County, so he's still close to home. He studied trumpet with Claude Gordon for seven years, and with Dr. Herb Patnoe at DeAnza College while also studying math. He was later a computer science major at San Jose State University. Andy's musical career includes performances with jazz notables Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ashley Alexander, Jay Daversa, Madeline Eastman, Claire Fischer, Lou Marini, Don Menza, Art Pepper, Allyn Smith, Lew Tabackin, and Bill Watrous. He has also performed with James Brown and Tower of Power. The ensembles he has performed with include Blue Saints Jazz Band, Blue Velvet Sound, Bob Mocata Orchestra, DeAnza College Jazz Ensemble, Foothill Evening Jazz Ensemble, Full Faith & Credit=, Johnny Lampson Orchestra, Touch 'N' Go, and the West Valley Evening Jazz Ensemble. He currently lives in San Jose and works for the law firm of Kenyon & Kenyon as a litigation paralegal. While not playing with more famous players than most of us, Andy enjoys syncopated golf.

Anne E.H. Li, based in the New York office, first joined Kenyon & Kenyon as a summer associate in 2005 and returned to the firm as an associate in 2006. Ms. Li is a member of the Life Sciences practice group, with a primary focus on assisting biomedical clients in protecting and expanding patent portfolios. She also participates in counseling clients on intellectual property matters, including opinion drafting related to pharmaceutical compounds and processes, as well as due diligence analysis of patent portfolios.

Christopher Wheeler joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wheeler garnered a wide variety of patent prosecution experience in the biomedical, biotech, chemical and mechanical engineering disciplines as an associate at an intellectual property law firm based in Alexandria, VA. Mr. Wheeler's experience includes preparing U.S. and foreign patent applications, opinion work and directing all phases of the prosecution process before the USPTO and supporting the same in foreign patent offices. His current practice focuses on medical devices and neuroscience technologies. While an undergraduate, Mr. Wheeler worked in neuroscience, immunology and developmental psychology labs studying neuronal patterns, the Trypanosoma virus and cognitive structures.

Connie Pong is an associate in the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon. Ms. Pong joined Kenyon & Kenyon upon graduation from law school in 2002. Ms. Pong's practice is focused primarily on patent litigation in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biological arts.

Mr. Basov's practice includes rendering legal advice and representing technology clients in mergers and acquisitions, technology transfers, licensing, outsourcing and other types of transactions involving various IP and e-commerce issues. He represented Conexent Systems Inc. in a 2.8 billion dollar merger with another broadband and wireless solution provider, Globespan/Virata Inc., and rendered IP-related and contract advice for Rockwell Collins, Inc. in a 128 million dollar acquisition of NLX, LLC. Mr. Basov also provided legal advice to Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA. and its subsidiaries in connection with the purchase of the "away from home" tissue business of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, with a market value of approximately $700 million, and represented Federated Department Stores and other on various matters involving assertions of patent infringement of e-commerce patents, trademark disputes and license negotiations. Mr. Basov has also worked on major patent and trademark litigations in recent years, representing companies such as Matsushita, Minebea Co. and Nippon Miniature Bearing Corp. in various lawsuits involving disk-drive motor patents and circuitry for LCD monitors, represented Conductus Inc. in a patent infringement lawsuit involving cryogenically cooled receiver front ends for cellular base stations, advised PhoneFree.com on the issues of infringement in the area of Internet telephony technology and advised Symbol Technologies, Inc. on various issues of patent and trademark infringement involving laser bar code scanning technology. Mr. Basov is a member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association and the New York State Bar Association. He received his law degree from the Fordham School of Law and bachelor degrees in computer science and mathematics from the New York University.

EDWARD J. HANDLER, III, Esq., 71, is a retired partner from Kenyon & Kenyon, a law firm that provided intellectual property advice to the Company. Mr. Handler became a Director of the Company on October 1, 2004, coincident with his retirement from his law firm. Mr. Handler has 40 years experience in all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights, including litigation and other adversarial proceedings. Mr. Handler is President and COO of Storm Bio, Inc., a private Delaware corporation active in the area of therapeutics for acute inflammatory conditions. Mr. Handler is past President of the West Point Society of New York and a past Trustee of the Association of Graduates, U.S. Military Academy. He holds a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School and a B.S. in Engineering Science from the United States Military Academy.

Elizabeth Gardner has been an attorney with Kenyon & Kenyon since 1991. Ms. Gardner has experience in all phases of litigation involving patented technology in the chemical, electrical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, medical products and medical diagnostics industries. Ms. Gardner's experience also includes patent interference practice and patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Her patent prosecution experience has been primarily in the technical areas of medical, dental, and mechanical devices, metal alloys, ceramic materials and metallurgical processes.

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Dr. Coppola has extensive experience in the area of biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent prosecution, opinions, interferences and licensing. Prior to joining Kenyon & Kenyon, Dr. Coppola spent more than five years as a senior attorney in the biotechnology practice group at Merck & Co., Inc. where he obtained patents and provided validity and infringement opinions in various areas such as newly discovered genes, drug discovery assays, Alzheimer's disease research, functional genomics, ion channels, hepatitis C virus, inflammation, combinatorial chemistry, proteomics, diabetes, monoclonal antibodies, the crystal structures of proteins, transgenic mice and vaccines. He also provided guidance to management in connection with patent issues arising in various licensing matters. Dr. Coppola helped defend several Merck patents or patent applications that became involved in interferences or European oppositions. Dr. Coppola was an associate for four years at the intellectual property law firm of Pennie & Edmonds where he prosecuted patent applications in the field of biotechnology for a variety of clients and was also active in the firm's interference practice. Prior to entering the field of law, Dr. Coppola earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and conducted research in the area of oncogenes at Princeton University and Bristol-Myers Squibb. His work involved studying the relationship between oncogene expression and the differentiation and transformation of cells as well as structure/function studies of oncogene activation. He published the results of his research in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology, Oncogene, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. Dr. Coppola was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Fellow.

Mr. Prey received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctorate degree from George Mason University. While working on his undergraduate degree, Mr. Prey did research in database systems, information retrieval, and distributed searching. He is a co-author of several technical papers including conference papers presented at SIGIR'98 and SIGIR'99, an international conference on information retrieval. For his research, he received the Undergraduate Research Award 1999-2000. At George Mason University, Mr. Prey completed the Patent Law Track, an intense concentration in intellectual property law, and was a member of the Intellectual Property Law Society. While working on his law degree, he also did patent prosecution work as a law clerk at a Washington, DC area firm. Mr. Prey joined Kenyon & Kenyon as a summer associate in 2002 and is currently an associate in the New York office. Mr. Prey works primarily on patent litigation and his practice covers a range of technological fields, including: automotive systems, medical devices, digital cameras, computer software, and Internet-based business systems. Mr. Prey's work also includes advising clients on trade secret issues as well as providing non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability opinions.

Lawrence Frank joined Kenyon & Kenyon LLP in the fall of 2001. His practice includes patent litigation, client counseling, due diligence, opinions relating to validity and infringement, and patent prosecution in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Dr. Frank earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Columbia University and did post-doctoral research at Hoffmann-LaRoche and New York University. He studied fly oogenesis and embryogenesis using molecular biological, genetic, and biochemical techniques, and published his results in Development and Gene.

Lee Shelton joined Kenyon & Kenyon in 2005 as an associate in the New York Office. Mr. Shelton is a patent litigator who focuses mostly on the pharmaceutical and chemical sciences. Prior to joining Kenyon & Kenyon, Mr. Shelton worked at a New York intellectual property law firm where he obtained a broad experience in patent litigation, Hatch-Waxman litigation, interference practice and licensing. His responsibilities included the preparation of complaints, motions, responsive pleadings and other discovery related papers, the taking of depositions, the preparation of witnesses for deposition, and various other litigation related tasks.

Matthew E. Moersfelder, based in the New York office, was a summer associate at Kenyon & Kenyon in 2005 and joined the firm as an associate in 2006. Mr. Moersfelder received a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. While earning his undergraduate degree, Mr. Moersfelder spent eight months as a plant engineer for a cement company. He was responsible for designing a heat exchanger for vent gases and optimizing material flow and reaction rates. During the summer of 2004, Mr. Moersfelder interned for the Honorable Richard Linn in United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Matthew Faust, based in the firm's New York office, joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Faust spent nine years working in the computer technology field as a programmer analyst, system architect, and technical project manager for several leading corporations in the financial services and media industries. His technical work focused on database design, web-based software development, and functional and technical architecture for workflow systems.

R. Scott Roe, based in the firm's New York office, first joined Kenyon & Kenyon as a summer associate in 2005. His practice is focused on patent litigation in the mechanical and electrical arts. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research and gained experience in the automotive hybrid field. Mr. Roe received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University, summa cum laude, and J.D. from Boston University, cum laude. While earning his J.D., Mr. Roe also received a concentration in Intellectual Property, cum laude.

Richard Ward joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in April of 2006 after working as a summer associate in 2005. Prior to joining Kenyon & Kenyon, Mr. Ward served for over three years as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. At the USPTO, Mr. Ward examined patent applications in numerous technical areas, including membrane filtration, chromatography, ion exchange, materials, water treatment, biological separations, agitation, and centrifugal separators. Mr. Ward's current practice primarily involves litigation and counseling in a variety of subject areas, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, mechanical devices, telecommunications, and the internet. His practice also covers trademark and copyright litigation, as well as patent prosecution. Practice limited to proceedings before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and matters pertaining thereto.

Sheila Mortazavi joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in the fall of 1999. She specializes in patent litigation in a variety of fields, including the mechanical, chemical, and electrical arts. She has been involved in all stages of patent litigation, including pre-trial investigation, discovery, motion practice, trial, and appellate practice. Her recent litigations involve technology ranging from medical devices to the internet. Ms. Mortazavi's practice also includes opinion work in the mechanical arts.

Shweta Udeshi is currently a third-year Associate at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP. Her area of focus is intellectual property law. Ms. Udeshi earned her J.D. Fordham Law School in 2004.

Sumit Bhattacharya joined Kenyon and Kenyon as an associate in 2002. During his time with the firm, Mr. Bhattacharya's has worked in the intellectual property areas of patent litigation, patent prosecution and trademark litigation. He has focused on the fields of microprocessor design, computer architecture and peripherals and internet applications. Before coming to Kenyon and Kenyon, Mr. Bhattacharya worked as a programmer for both a design engineering firms as well as with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Thomas Huff, based in the Washington, DC office, joined Kenyon & Kenyon as an associate in 2006 after working as a summer associate in 2005. His practice focuses primarily on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patents. He has also been involved in counseling and litigation matters pertaining to trademarks and copyrights. Mr. Huff is a participant in the pro bono practice at Kenyon, which is affiliated with the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project and the Office of the Capital Defender in Northern Virginia. Mr. Huff received his B.S. in computer science from George Mason University, and his J.D. from George Washington University Law School.

Mrs. Remily joined Kenyon & Kenyon in 2005 from Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, LLP, where she was an associate. Mrs. Remily counsels clients in all areas of patent law, including obtaining and enforcing patents, avoiding infringement, and conducting reissue and re-examination proceedings, as well as patent estate due diligence and development. Mrs. Remily focuses her practice in chemical patent matters, with an emphasis in rendering opinions relating to patentability, infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate issues in the pharmaceutical arts. She has also had experience with various aspects of the Hatch-Waxman Act. Much of her work has involved patent matters related to filings of Abbreviated New Drug Applications by generic drug manufacturers. She has also assisted clients in obtaining patent term extensions under 35 U.S.C. 156. In addition, Mrs. Remily has drafted opinions and patent applications in other technical areas including cosmetics, agrichemicals, polymers, rubber compositions, cement compositions, cigarettes, fine chemicals and medical devices. Her technical experience is in the area of chemistry, with an emphasis in organic chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Prior to attending Georgetown University Law Center , Mrs. Remily was a research chemist for Merck & Co., Inc., where her work involved the synthesis of pharmaceutical compounds, as well as combinatorial chemistry approaches for lead optimization and drug discovery. In graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University , her research related to the synthesis of novel trioxane and artmisinin analogs as anti-malarial or chemotherapeutic agents. Mrs. Remily also received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double-major in Chemistry and Biology from Cornell University, where she worked as a research assistant in both the Chemistry Department and the Material Science and Engineering Department. Mrs. Remily is a member of the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Licensing Executives Society, American Chemical Society, and the Virginia State Bar Association.