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My practice includes general patent prosecution and IP counseling with respect to building and managing IP portfolios for major companies, as well as building IP portfolios for newer companies in the initial stages.  My practice includes preparation and prosecution of various patent, trademark, and copyright applications in the computer/software, architectural, chemical, mechanical, and medical arts, and related strategic counseling.  I also prepare patent opinions, and provide general strategic advice and support in litigation matters in the U.S. and internationally.. I represent clients ranging from large fortune 500 companies to small local companies and inventors.  Representative clients are located in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Asia, and include, for example, 3form, Hunter Douglas, DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Microsoft, Clorox Company, Glad Company, Miche Bag, and Traeger Grills.  I have advised fortune 500 companies on general IP strategy, and have been the primary point of contact in building a company’s IP from the stage of no intellectual property through to the first major financing round, and/or to the IPO.  I am registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.. Prior to law school, I worked as a genetic sequence analyst for Myriad Genetics, Inc., aiding in the discovery of the Human Coronary Heart Disease gene (CHD1). My work included analyzing gene sequences, as well as writing various computer scripts and programs in the GDE environment.  I also performed published research as an undergraduate while helping to develop a genetic mouse model for Multiple Sclerosis.

My name is Nathan John Nielson and I am a proud resident of Tooele County. I was born originally in Stillwater, Oklahoma before my family moved to Vernal, Utah where I attended Uintah High School. It was during high school that I decided I would be an attorney. I had the opportunity to participate in a mock-trial as a defense attorney and won my first case. I received my associate’s degree from Utah State University before I earned my Bachelors of Science from the University of Utah in Political Science.. I returned to my roots in Oklahoma by choosing to attend the University of Oklahoma: College of Law. While there, I spent a semester as a volunteer mediator for the Early Settlement Mediation program. I mediated small claims and real estate cases while observing family and child permanency mediations. I then spent a year working for the Cleveland County District Attorney's Office where I helped prosecute misdemeanors and felonies. I was also awarded the Academic Achievement award in Criminal Law during my studies.. During law school, I took two years off to volunteer in the West Indies and spent time in Suriname, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Trinidad & Tobago. I learned Dutch as part of my service. This was a centering experience which taught me the value of service.. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, I worked as a law clerk in Beaverton, Oregon for a small firm which specialized in Family and Immigration Law. After passing the bar, I returned to Tooele where I have opened up my own practice. I later accepted employment with the State of Utah as a Guardian ad Litem representing abused and neglected children in Carbon and Emery Counties.

My name is Daniel Morath, Ph.D. and I am a US intellectual property (IP) attorney who lives in Utah.  Professionally, I have worked in most areas of intellectual property law (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related litigation), with a special emphasis in obtaining patent and trademark protection for chemical and life sciences developments (e.g., drugs, natural products, vaccines, biotechnology, gene therapy, medical devices, cosmetics, and other related inventions). In this regard, I have represented people and companies in various litigation matters including patent interference proceedings at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, in due diligence analysis and opinions, in protecting clients' brands, in analyzing worldwide patent positions of various parties, and in negotiations

My name is Catherine Cleveland. As a former judge and a Salt Lake City criminal defense lawyer, I represent clients accused of serious felonies in Utah State, Federal, and Juvenile Courts.. A large part of my practice is devoted to representing both juveniles and adults accused of committing a sex offense. Being charged with a sex crime is serious and the penalties are harsh. For example, offenders found guilty of a first-degree felony sex crime are facing a sentence of 15 years to life in prison and being placed on the lifetime sex offender registry. Offenders may be prosecuted under federal or state law (or both).. I use 20 years of experience as a lawyer to achieve extremely favorable results for my clients. Over the years, I have seen thousands of criminal defense cases handled in Utah Courts, so I know what results others have received in situations like yours.. I have an in-depth knowledge of local Courts and procedures to help you understand what to expect. I can then work with you to develop an effective criminal defense strategy designed to achieve the best possible results in negotiations with prosecutors or at trial.. I will aggressively fight for you with any criminal charge you are accused of to obtain the best possible outcome.

Ms. Telfer focuses her practice on representing individuals and commercial clients in all aspects of family law matters, estate planning, and business and commercial law including entity formation, business planning, and general business and commercial transactions. Her experience in the legal and corporate sectors provides her a unique perspective to assist clients in determining the appropriate level of legal protections they and their businesses need.

Ms. Preston also has many years of experience representing employees in wage and hour cases, and have recovered over 16 million dollars in unpaid wages and overtime over the last 8 years.. Ms. Preston has many years of experience representing immigrants in all manner of immigration issues.  She has particular expertise with complex immigration cases, including asylum and deportation cases, and those involving criminal issues, fraud allegations, and standing deportation orders.. Ms. Preston also has many years of experience representing immigrants (and others) in criminal cases (everything from DUI to homicide charges) before the State and Federal Courts in Utah.Along with practicing in state courts in Utah, she is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Court of Utah.

Mr. Williams' practice of law is focused on most areas of civil litigation, but particularly medical malpractice defense, product liability, personal injury defense, and adoption law. Mr. Williams represents doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers involving regulatory, insurance, and professional liability matters. Mr. Williams also defends multiple large national retailers against personal injury and premises liability lawsuits. Before joining Snow, Christensen & Martineau, Mr. Williams worked for the Utah Attorney General's Office, where he was significantly involved in the complex litigation and subsequent settlement between the state and numerous tobacco companies.. Mr. Williams is also experienced in the practice of adoption law, representing adopting parents, agencies, and birth parents. Mr. Williams has repeatedly stated that some of his most enjoyable moments as an attorney are when he "appears before a judge and finalizes an adoption for a couple trying to build their family."

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.. Mr. Todd also assists with transaction work such as opinions regarding patentability, infringement, validity, and freedom to operate.. Prior to law school, Mr. Todd completed a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering while also working with the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department as a teacher's assistant in the area of air pollution control technologies.

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.  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.. Mr. Todd served from 1997-1998 as a law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which resolves patent appeals from all U.S. district courts as well as all appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Todd has participated in authoring a number of publications on patent law issues, has lectured on intellectual property issues, and currently serves as an adjunct professor of law at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in patent law. He has also served as the principal author in amicus briefs filed on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association in cases pending before the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Taylor’s philosophy for practicing law is based on cost effective problem solving while utilizing his experience as a negotiator, litigation strategist, and successful courtroom trial attorney to achieve the most desirable outcome for his clients.

Mr. Reutzel, a partner in the firm, represents clients in complex civil litigation, including securities, real estate, construction, partnership, trademark, and trade secret litigation.. In recent years, Mr. Reutzel has successfully prosecuted securities related claims, involving public companies, resulting in favorable judgments totaling several million dollars. Mr. Reutzel is also experienced in defending securities fraud claims, and has reached favorable results on securities fraud and related claims in state and federal courts from California to Utah to Florida.. In addition to his securities litigation practice, a significant portion of Mr. Reutzel’s practice involves real property and construction issues.  He has a proven record of successfully litigating construction and real estate disputes, including disputes involving real property transactions, local municipalities, construction defects, payment bonds, and mechanic’s liens.  Mr. Reutzel also regularly advises real estate developers and contractors on entitlement, finance, and development issues and transactions.  As a result of Mr. Reutzel’s success, he has been recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star.

Mr. Rawson assists companies with financings, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other business transactions and agreements.  In addition, he assists early stage companies with formation, structure, strategic relationships, venture capital financings, and other financings.

Mr. Randall is the Chair of the Durham Jones & Pinegar's Environment, Energy and Resources Practice Group and practices in the Salt Lake City office.. Mr. Randall’s practice includes managing industrial facility siting, permitting, and compliance issues under federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations. He also regularly represents clients in matters involving Superfund liability, Clean Water Act permitting and compliance, wetlands permitting, worker health and safety, pipeline health and safety laws and regulations and environmental management programs. He has a sound working knowledge of energy law issues and intrastate and interstate public utility practice areas, including state PSCs and FERC. Mr. Randall has particular expertise in site investigation, remediation, and redevelopment, having assisted in the acquisition, management and redevelopment of numerous environmentally sensitive properties, including many NPL-listed Superfund sites.. Mr. Randall has been directly involved in the redevelopment of thousands of acres of properties that now support residential, industrial, commercial and recreational uses. He also has substantial experience in prosecuting and defending Superfund cost recovery and contribution matters, including the development of cost allocations involving complex, multi-party sites.. Mr. Randall’s practice also includes assisting regulated and non-regulated municipal and investor-owned utilities, regulated petroleum and natural gas pipelines, independent power producers with coal mining joint ventures, purchase and transportation of coal and other energy resources, management of coal combustion byproducts, transmission access, siting and rights-of-way acquisition, water rights and state and local taxation matters.. His experience includes work on significant operational-level issues for large municipal and investor-owned electric generators in Utah, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Montana. His work included coal mining joint venture issues, short and long term coal purchase and sales and transportation contracts (as well as dispute resolution), management of coal combustion byproducts, interconnection, transmission, and other operational-level environmental, utility and regulatory matters.. In addition to his full-service environmental practice, Mr. Randall has had tremendous opportunities to provide substantive transactional support for dozens of prominent energy sector transactions, some of which ranged into multiple billions of dollars of value.. Mr. Randall has a strong and active litigation background, starting with his trial-court level clerkship in federal court with Judge Larry M. Boyle of the United States District Court of Idaho.

Mr. Nixon is a shareholder in Durham Jones & Pinegar’s Intellectual Property Section. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, patent preparation and prosecution, trademarks and copyrights. Prior to becoming an attorney and joining D|J|P, he worked as an electrical engineer.. As an engineer, Mr. Nixon performed algorithm development, signal processing and network analysis; assisted with software design and implementation; performed technical writing for proposals, reports and user manuals; assisted with scientific research and development; and performed software development.

Mr. McCarty helps startup, growth-stage, and mature companies in formation, restructuring, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and various employment and operational matters. He specializes in venture capital financing, business structure and strategy, and contract negotiations between business owners and their investors, customers, and partners. With an MBA from the BYU Marriott School of Management, Mr. McCarty enjoys helping businesses succeed.. Areas:

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.

Mr. Lebrecht represents company clients primarily in the areas of corporate finance (including private placements, public offerings, and Securities and Exchange Commission and blue sky compliance), public company disclosure (including ’33 Act registrations and ’34 Act reporting requirements), and mergers and acquisitions (including asset and stock purchases and restructurings). He also represents individual directors, and boards of directors, with respect to corporate governance, fiduciary duties, internal investigations, and risk management. He practices before the SEC and FINRA on matters involving issuers, broker-dealers, and other service professionals. He has served as a director of both for-profit and non-profit entities, been named one of the Best Lawyers in America for Mergers & Acquisitions each year since 2006, presented at the SEC’s Roundtable on Microcap Securities in 2011, been named one of Orange County’s top lawyers, been active in the corporations and securities law committees of the California and Utah state bars, and maintains active blogs on securities, board, and M&A topics .

Mr. Keppner is a partner in the firm’s litigation department. His primary areas of practice involve collections, landlord-tenant disputes, and employment litigation, including disputes regarding non-compete agreements. He has experience with cases dealing with qui tam issues, copyright infringement, construction law, and bankruptcy, including creditor representation

Mr. Jones is a founder of Durham Jones & Pinegar and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. His high-energy, intense representation of his clients is unsurpassed. Mr. Jones’s practice concentrates on corporate and securities matters, although he was a dynamic litigation attorney in earlier days. He regularly represents public and private companies in a broad range of matters, including:. Mr. Jones maintains an “AV” rating with Martindale/Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics.

Mr. Johanson is a shareholder at Durham Jones & Pinegar who specializes in patents, trademarks, copyright and technology law.  He chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property Section.  He provides patent-related services involving the electronics arts, especially wireless communications, computer technology, software and other technologies. He focuses on all phases of intellectual property management, including domestic and foreign patent procurement, post-issuance administrative proceedings, portfolio management, preparation of noninfringement and invalidity opinions, product clearance analysis, due diligence evaluations, and pre-litigation evaluations and strategic counseling for asserting patent rights or responding to patent infringement allegations. He provides comprehensive counseling for defending the validity of clients’ patents and challenging the validity of patents owned by clients’ competitors.

Mr. Johansen is a member in the law firm of Skoubye Nielson & Johansen, LLC. His practice involves commercial and residential construction transactions and disputes, mechanic's lien foreclosures, Utah Residence Lien Recovery Fund claims, payment bond claims (both state and federal), construction defect litigation, real estate transactions, including condominium and PUD organizational documents, contract disputes, and collections. He has represented owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, fabricators, construction material suppliers, sureties, insurance companies, and other businesses in the Intermountain West. Mr. Johansen has been involved in the construction industry since graduation from high school. His experience includes both residential and commercial construction. His involvement in the construction industry has required working with contractors, subcontractors, architects, owners, material suppliers, engineers, and others in their various trades. Mr. Johansen has been named as one of Utah's Legal Elite Lawyers in the area of Construction Law by Utah Business Magazine.Mr. Johansen practiced law for 5 years at the law firm of Babcock Scott & Babcock (fka Walstad & Babcock then Babcock Bostwick Scott Crawley & Price).  In 2003 he joined the firm of Skouby Nielson & Johansen, LLC (pka Olsen Skoubye & Nielson, LLC) where, as a partner with the firm, he continues to represent clients in construction and real estate related litigation and transactions. Education: Mr. Johansen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management from Brigham Young University in 1994. He received his Juris Doctor degree, graduating cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1998, with a focus on contracts, construction law and real property law. Admissions & Associations: Mr. Johansen is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Utah and the United States District Court for Utah. Mr. Johansen is currently a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution section of the Utah Bar and served as a student arbitrator for the Brigham Young University Housing Arbitration Board.  Mr. Johansen is currently a member of the Construction Law Section of the Utah Bar where he served as Chair during 2010.  Mr. Johansen is likewise a member of the Litigation Section and the Real Property Law Section of the Utah State Bar. Mr. Johansen served on the executive committee of the Utah Construction Suppliers Association and has been involved in drafting legislation related to the construction industry in Utah as well as acting as an advisor with respect to proposed legislation affecting the construction industry in Utah.

Mr. Handy is a shareholder at Babcock Scott & Babcock. He practices design and construction law. He has represented owners, architects and engineers, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Handy received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2006 from Brigham Young University where he was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society. Mr. Handy also received a Master of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Brigham Young University in working on his Master’s degree, Mr. Handy worked as a consultant and engineer-in-training for a water resources engineering firm that specializes in computer modeling of groundwater, watershed, and surface water.

Mr. Goodrich is an associate in the firm’s litigation department. His primary areas of practice include construction law, commercial litigation, real property, homeowner and condominium association law, and insurance law.

Mr. Gibb began his career as a Special Assistant Utah Attorney General, and then served as a law clerk for the Hon. J. Thomas Greene in the United States District Court for Utah. Mr. Gibb is a specialist in high profile litigation involving intellectual property, trade secrets, confidentiality agreements, and employment law, Mr. Gibb is consistently used by a broad group of technology, lending and banking clients.  Mr. Gibb also has extensive experience in cases representing receivers and has represented defendants in large investment fraud cases. Mr. Gibb is an expert trial lawyer in cases involving storage, maintenance and production of electronically stored information (ESI) and disputes during e-discovery, and in winning and defending motions for temporary restraining orders and injunctions. Mr. Gibb has provided pro bono services to community organizations such as the Utah Youth Soccer Association, Utah Avalanche Girls Soccer Club Foundation, Inc., AFC Apex and Clever Octopus, Inc. and has represented players and their parents in eligibility hearings before the Utah High School Athletic Association. Mr. Gibb litigates for individuals, small startups and multi-national corporations in state and federal trial and appellate courts.. Mr. Gibb joined the firm in 1992 as Durham Jones & Pinegar’s first associate. He was elected as a shareholder in 1997 and was appointed by the Firm as Litigation Section Chair for 2014-2015. He has received honors from his peers and clients including Utah’s Legal Elite as published in Utah Business Magazine, Mountain States Super Lawyers (2007-2016) and Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Donaldson’s practice is concentrated in a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including representing clients in state and federal courts, mediation and arbitration, and all levels of appeals. He has experience representing clients in technology, construction, real property, class action, securities, corporate, employment, healthcare, insurance, franchising, intellectual property, and a wide variety of contract matters. Mr. Donaldson regularly collaborates with attorneys in diverse practice areas to deliver comprehensive quality legal services to Firm clients.