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Damien J. Howard is an associate in our Orange County office. He has experience in patent litigation and patent prosecution.
Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Mr. Howard was a judicial extern for the Honorable Sidney I. Schenkier, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Before attending law school, Mr. Howard worked for two years as a patent engineer. Prior to that, Mr. Howard worked for two years as a software engineer in the telecommunications industry.
Mr. Howard joined the firm in 2010.
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Judicial Extern for Presiding Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier
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University of California, Davis
Undergraduate course in object-oriented programming (Spring 2005)
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Co-author, "The Impact of Alice on Patent Eligible Subject Matter - With a Focus on U.S. District Courts' and Federal Circuit's Decisions relating to Business Methods and Computer Software-Related Inventions on Decisions," Journal of the Japanese Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Vol. 60 No. 11 (November 2015)
Co-author, "A Taxonomy of Buffer Overflow Characteristics," Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 9, Issue 3 (January 2012)
Author, A Discussion on the Patentability of Signals: Examining In re Nuijten, 8 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 131 (2009).
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