Education

  • Wharton, executive education, 2022Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets.
  • Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015Master of Divinity in Christian Education, earned while practicing law full time.
  • University of Missouri, 2000Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration.
  • University of Missouri, 1996Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.

The engineering degrees came four years before the law degree, which is the order that decides what a patent looks like when you open one.

Admissions

Patent office

Registered patent attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 2002.

State bars

  • California, active.
  • Missouri, active.
  • Texas, inactive.
  • Tennessee, inactive.

Federal courts

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • United States Court of Federal Claims.
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California.
  • United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Patent cases can be filed in a great many of those districts, and a case that travels far from home costs more than a case that does not.

Recognition and service

  • Selected to give the baccalaureate address to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law class of 2016.
  • Former INROADS scholar.
  • Member of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
  • Externship with the Honorable John C. Holstein of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
  • Internship with the Honorable Harold Lowenstein of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
  • Five years on the board of Northland Christian School.

The part of this that a colleague chose to write down

Long conversations and quick interactions with him over the years carry a similar theme: how to become, and maintain your role as, a valuable addition to any legal team in any industry; and how to be of service to your community.

Lischen Peso Gibson Senior Corporate Counsel, Privacy and Data Security, Oracle Colleague. Written June 2022.

She had every line of that list available to her and wrote about something else instead.