Former AMLaw
100 Intellectual Property Lawyers found New DC-based Law firm
Three
DC-Area Intellectual Property Lawyers Found New IP Boutique -- Albrecht
Tousi & Farnum
PLLC
WASHINGTON,
DC Mar. 1, 2010 -- Albrecht Tousi
& Farnum PLLC announced the formation
today of a new intellectual property (IP) boutique based in Washington,
DC (http://www.atfirm.com). Ralph P. Albrecht,
Cameron H. Tousi, and David M. Farnum, formerly of Venable LLP, are the founding
members of the firm, which will focus on the enforcement and
procurement of IP rights.
Having represented leading multinationals as well as startups, the
founding partners and counsel are experienced in all avenues of
technology protection and enforcement, from licensing and litigation,
to technology transactions, to building sophisticated domestic patent
prosecution and outbound foreign filing programs.
Mr. Albrecht is an American Bar Foundation Fellow and Immediate Past
President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC),
and former Chair of the BADC’s Patent Trademark Copyright (PTC)
Section, who served as co-chair of Venable's patent prosecution
practice group from 2000-2004. Mr. Albrecht will continue his patent
litigation, licensing and procurement practice at Albrecht Tousi & Farnum PLLC
(http://www.atfirm.com). Prior to joining private practice of law in
1997, Mr. Albrecht was a leading technical consultant with IBM from
1989-1999.
Mr. Tousi is a distinguished IP licensing and
litigation attorney with an active intellectual practice for leading
corporations. Mr. Tousi previously served as
Director of Intellectual Property for the Telecommunications Business
of Samsung Electronics, and has had a distinguished career with such
firms as Booz Allen Hamilton and IBM. Mr. Tousi,
along with Mr. Albrecht, had joined Venable in May of 2000 through
merger with Lane, Aitken & McCann.
Mr. Farnum has built a national reputation as
an intellectual property litigator and licensing attorney through his
years with Venable and Latham & Watkins. His practice focuses on
patent trial, appellate and other intellectual property work in a
variety of technologies ranging from electronics, telecommunications
products and services, software, computer hardware and financial
services.
“As a past president of the Bar
Association of DC, the nation’s third oldest bar association, I am
proud we are founding our firm in the Nation’s capital city,”
said Albrecht. As former co-chair of Venable’s patent prosecution
group, focusing on its domestic patent practice, Albrecht oversaw a
period of unprecedented growth in that firm’s patent practice, while
building a world class patent foreign filing department in its
Washington Office, before moving his practice more recently to its
Northern Virginia office.
“This boutique law firm platform
will enable us to meet a growing need in the IP services marketplace at
a time when businesses around the country and across the globe are
seeking creative, cost effective solutions to increasingly difficult
legal and financial challenges," Mr. Farnum
said. Agreeing, Mr. Tousi underscored,
"our combination of large firm and intellectual property boutique
legal and industry experience will provide the firm the ability to
provide cost effective, high quality legal services solutions to
clients of all sizes.”
"Founding our own IP firm to continue to grow our respective legal
services businesses has been a life’s dream of each of the
principals," Mr. Albrecht said.
About the
Founders
Ralph
P. Albrecht, Partner: Mr. Albrecht is a renowned
intellectual property licensing, litigation and prosecution attorney,
who has developed worldwide intellectual property portfolios for
industry leaders and innovative startups. He represents all sizes of
clients in procuring US and foreign patent rights, and in their
licensing and litigation matters nationally. He speaks and writes
frequently on patent related issues, and has been recognized for his
years of service to the voluntary bar by being named an American Bar
Foundation Fellow in 2009.
Mr. Albrecht received his JD from the George Mason University School of
Law and earned his BS in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1989.
Cameron H. Tousi,
Partner: Mr. Tousi has broad
intellectual property and business transactions legal experience, and
counsels the world’s leading companies on their most sophisticated
issues. He provides clients over twenty years of breadth and diversity
in industry experience. He develops case strategies and conducts
complex litigation, negotiates licenses and technology transfer
agreements, analyzes infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate
issues, procures patents and trademarks, conducts intellectual property
audits and management programs, and provides high-level strategy and
management.
Mr. Tousi obtained his JD degree from George
Washington University after earning dual BS degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Maryland in 1989.
David M. Farnum,
Partner: Mr. Farnum is a leading
national intellectual property litigator with a focus on patented high
technologies and science, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights,
licensing, and unfair competition. In this capacity, Mr. Farnum has litigated dozens of patent suits before
numerous United States District Courts, the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the International Trade Commission.
His work has covered a variety of technologies ranging from
electronics, telecommunications products and services, software,
computer hardware, financial services, medical devices and
pharmaceuticals.
Mr. Farnum earned his JD degree from Yale Law
School after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago.
About
Albrecht Tousi & Farnum
PLLC
Albrecht
Tousi & Farnum
PLLC (www.atfirm.com), with its headquarters in
Washington, DC, is a leader in all areas of intellectual property,
including patent enforcement and defense, commercialization, and
procurement. Albrecht Tousi & Farnum’s attorneys have extensive experience in
patent litigation, licensing and prosecution. The firm represents
clients in various industries including the financial services, medical
device, high technology, telecommunications, information technology,
entertainment and media, computer hardware, software and video game
technologies, consumer products, and government contracts. With a
worldwide network of law firm counsel and associates, the firm is able
to build global patent portfolios, while providing cost effective legal
services representation and alternative fee based procurement,
licensing and enforcement legal services. Each of the firm’s founding
members has over a decade of experience representing Fortune 500
companies, midsize and emerging growth businesses, government
contractors and individual inventors.
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