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Sheldon R.
Meyer
Partner
email:
srm@fdml.com
Overview
Mr.
Meyer is a founding partner of the firm. He
advises high-technology clients involved with
computer system architecture, computer
peripherals and software, interactive video
devices, video set-top converters, flat panel
and CRT displays, digital signal processing,
analog and digital electronic design automation,
semiconductor devices and processing, medical
devices, electronic measuring devices, and other
high-technology products. His practice includes
a full range of intellectual property matters,
including extensive technology licensing and
legal counseling with respect to intellectual
property protection strategies.
Mr. Meyer
also serves as litigation counsel in a variety
of intellectual property litigation matters at
the Federal District Court and Appellate Court
levels, and before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, as well as arbitration counsel
before the American Arbitration Association, and
International Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Meyer
has also served more than fifteen years as an
arbitrator. His U.S. District Court and American
Arbitration Association appointments (both
domestic and international) have involved:
patent and trademark licenses, software source
code development agreements, computer hardware
distribution agreements, software distribution
agreement ($5 million dollar claim), patent
infringement ($30 million dollar claim), and
interactive television technology license
agreement and patent infringement ($150 million
dollar claim).
Prior to founding the
firm in 1982, Mr. Meyer was an associate
attorney with Larsen, Taylor & Hinds
(Washington, D.C.), and a partner with
Phillips, Moore, Lempio & Majestic (San
Francisco).
Education
University
of California, Berkeley, B.S. 1968
highest honors
Stanford
University, M.S. Engineering 1970
University
of California, Berkeley, MBA
Program 1971
University of California
School of Law, Davis, J.D. 1974
Admissions
and Memberships
State Bar of
California
State Bar of District of
Columbia
United States Patent
and Trademark Office
United
States Supreme Court
United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth
Circuit
United States District Court for
the Northern District of California
Arbitrator, United
States District Court for the Northern
District of
California
Arbitrator, American
Arbitration Association
San Francisco Bar
Association
San Francisco Intellectual
Property Law Association
Engineering Honor
Society of Tau Beta Pi
Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE)
Licensing Executives Society
Lectures
and Publications
Mr. Meyer
has been a guest lecturer on current patent,
trademark and copyright law topics at Stanford
University, the University of California at
Berkeley and the University of Santa Clara. Mr.
Meyer's presentations include the
following:
The
Basics of Copyright Law, Lorman Education
Services; July 2000
Inequitable
Conduct, Laches, and Other Nonstatutory
Defenses, Practicing Law Institute; October
1998, 1999, 2000
Mr. Meyer
authored Inequitable Conduct, Laches, and
Other Non-Statutory Defenses (Download
PDF, 128k) Practicing Law Institute, PATENT
LITIGATION 1998 (October 1998) and 1999
(September 1999); Patent Litigation Before
the International Trade Commission and Its
Effectiveness, Practicing Law Institute,
Patent Litigation 1992, (November 1992), and
1993 (November 1993).
Representative
Litigation
Mr. Meyer's
representative litigation includes the
following:
SyQuest
Technology v. Micro Storage (obtaining key
injunctions concerning misappropriation of disk
drive technology)
Data
East USA, Inc. v. Epyx (obtaining an injunction
concerning copyright infringement of video game
technology which was appealed to U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Ultrapure
v. HTC and Kinetic Systems, Inc. (defending
successfully against claim of trademark
infringement and trade secret misappropriation
for ultra-high purity semiconductor processing
equipment)
Security Dynamics
Technologies, Inc., v. VASCO Data Security
International, Inc. and VASCO Data Security,
Inc. (defending successfully against claims of
patent infringement concerning four patents
covering encryption software and hardware
security tokens)
RSA and
MIT v. VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
and VASCO Data Security, Inc. (defending
successfully against a claim of patent
infringement concerning a software encryption
patent)
Austria
Mikro Systeme International v. Tegal
Corporation, and International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) arbitration (defending
successfully against a patent indemnity claim
resulting from a suit by Lucent Technology)
Richard Chao
v. Toshikazu Iwamoto (Pentex), Patent
Interference before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office
ibid., Inc.
v. Tamotsu Yagi Design, Familiar and Henri
Charpentier (copyright infringement action
dealing with violation of visual work for
consumer products)
LeveLite v.
Toolz (patent infringement action dealing with
laser alignment tools)
Mitek
Corporation v. Holoplex, Inc. (trademark
opposition)
PLS-Pacific
Laser Systems v. TLZ, Inc., dba Toolz (patent
infringement action dealing with semiconductor
processing tools)
Tegal
Corporation v. Raines Technologies, et al.
(patent infringement action dealing with
semiconductor processing tools)
Tegal
Corporation v. Lam Research Corporation (patent
infringement action dealing with semiconductor
processing tools) | 
