Pat's practice involves all areas of patent law, including patent litigation and client counseling with an emphasis in matters involving computer software. Prior to rejoining SHB in 2002, Pat was in-house patent counsel for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington.

Pat is listed in Best Lawyers in America, which in 2012 selected him as a "Lawyer of the Year" for the Kansas City area. He currently serves on SHB’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Pat was vice chair of the Software & Business Methods Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association for 2010 and 2011.

During law school, Pat was a staff member of the UMKC Law Review and won the Giles S. Rich Patent Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., where he successfully argued before a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before law school, Pat worked as an electrical design engineer for an engineering consulting firm in St. Louis, Missouri.

StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. PhoneFactor, Inc., et al. – Represent defendant PhoneFactor in patent infringement litigation pending in the District of Delaware (Wilmington) involving authentication technology.

Princeton Digital Image Corp. v. Microsoft Corp. – Represent defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the District of Delaware (Wilmington) involving technology for encoding digital signals.

SimpleAir, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. et al. – Represent defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall) involving data transmission technology.

Uniloc USA, Inc. et al. v. Sony Corporation of America et al. – Represent defendant Activision Blizzard in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler) involving software registration technology .

Tallgrass Prairie Management, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. et al. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall) involving encryption technology resulting in a favorable settlement for Microsoft.

E-Contact Technologies LLC v. Microsoft Corp. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Beaumont) involving email technology resulting in a favorable settlement for Microsoft.

Walker Digital, LLC v. Activision, Inc. et al. – Represented defendants Activision Blizzard and Zynga in patent infringement litigation pending in the District of Delaware (Wilmington) involving online game technology resulting in favorable settlements for Activision and Zynga.

InNova Patent Licensing, LLC v. 3COM Corp. et al. – Represented defendant Cinemark in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall) involving electronic mail technology resulting in a favorable settlement for Cinemark.

Uniloc USA, Inc. et al. v. Sony Corporation of America et al. – Represented defendant Quark in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler) involving software registration technology resulting in a favorable settlement for Quark.

Prism Technologies, LLC v. Adobe Systems, Inc. et al. – Represented defendant Quark in patent infringement litigation pending in the District of Nebraska (Omaha) involving hardware-enabled authentication and authorization software resulting in a favorable settlement for Quark.

Skyline Software Systems, Inc. v. ESRI, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the Eastern District of Virginia (Norfolk) involving software for displaying three-dimensional images resulting in dismissal of Microsoft.

Performance Proxy Research, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) involving networking technology resulting in a favorable settlement for Microsoft.

Prism Technologies, LLC v. Research in Motion, Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation pending in the District of Nebraska (Omaha) involving hardware-enabled authentication and authorization software resulting in a favorable settlement for Microsoft.

Venetec International, Inc. v. Nexus Medical, LLC – Represented defendant Nexus Medical in patent infringement litigation in the District of Delaware (Wilmington) involving catheter securement devices resulting in a favorable settlement for Nexus Medical.

PhatRat Technology, Inc. v. Timex Corp. and Garmin International, Inc. – Represented defendant Garmin in patent infringement litigation in the District of Colorado (Denver) involving fitness devices resulting in a favorable settlement for Garmin.

Nash v. Microsoft Corp. – Represented defendant Microsoft in patent infringement litigation in the Southern District of Texas (Houston) involving anti-piracy software resulting in summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of Microsoft. Affirmed on appeal.

Freeman et al. v. The First Years, Inc. – Represented plaintiffs in patent infringement litigation in the District of Kansas (Kansas City) involving child care products resulting in seven-figure settlement for clients.

Pave Tech, Inc. et al. v. Snap Edge Corp. et al. – Represented defendants in patent infringement litigation in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) involving landscaping products resulting in a favorable settlement for clients on the first day of trial.

Mike v. Dymon, Inc. – Represented defendant Dymon in litigation involving trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in the District of Kansas (Kansas City) resulting in a favorable post-trial settlement for Dymon.

Moderator, "IP Issues in Cloud Computing," Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association at the JW Marriott at L.A. Live, Los Angeles, California, September 12, 2011.

Speaker, "Negotiating & Drafting License Agreements in Anticipation of Patent Validity Challenges," Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27, 2009.

Speaker, "KSR v. Teleflex and the Business Methods Taxonomy," Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York, September 11, 2007.

Speaker, "Determining the Value of IP," American Intellectual Property Law Association's 29th Mid-Winter Institute at the La Quinta Resort & Club, La Quinta, California, February 2, 2006.

“Through the Looking Glass: Litigating Software and Business Method Patents Under Section 112,” by George, N. Chaclas, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Patrick A. Lujin, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Binal J. Patel, Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Leslie M. Spencer, Ropes & Gray LLP, and Michael D. Stein, Woodcock Washburn LLP; published by the Intellectual Property Owners Association on June 2, 2009 at www.ipo.org/articles.

2013  "IP Star," Managing Intellectual Property IP Handbook - Missouri

Pat is a member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (KCMBA). He is a former chair of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee of the KCMBA.

Pat is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the state courts of Missouri, Kansas and Washington.

1993   J.D., University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

1988   B.S.E.E., University of Missouri - Columbia