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N. Stephan Kinsella Bio

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Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., in Houston. Formerly a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Duane Morris LLP, he has over fourteen years’ law firm and in-house experience in patent, IP, and general commercial and corporate law. He has extensive patent prosecution experience in computer, electronics, software, optoelectronics, oil & gas, and other technology, for clients such as Intel Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, General Electric, Motorola, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Sarnoff Corporation, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., Burr-Brown (now Texas Instruments), Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and UPS. A selection of issued and published patents is available at www.KinsellaLaw.com/patents.

He received an LL.M. (international business law, 1992) from King's College London-University of London; a JD (1991) from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University; and MSEE (1990) and BSEE (1987) degrees from Louisiana State University. He is licensed to practice before the Texas, Louisiana (inactive), and Pennsylvania (inactive) bars, and is registered to practice before the US Patent Office.

Kinsella has taught as Adjunct Professor of computer law at South Texas College of Law, and has served as Chair of the Computer Law Subcommittee of the Federalist Society's IP Practice Group. He has published numerous articles and books about patent law, e-commerce law, international law and other topics, and is an author or editor of: International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide (Oceana/Oxford 2005), co-authored with Noah Rubins of Freshfields; Trademark Practice and Forms (2001-present); World Online Business Law (2003-present); Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (1998-present); Online Contract Formation (2004); and Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk (1997). Forthcoming books include: Civil Law Pocket Dictionary: Louisiana Edition (forthcoming 2008; co-author: Gregory Rome); and The Ethics of Action: Fundamentals of Libertarian Legal Theory (Mises Institute, forthcoming 2009).

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December 2007

 

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