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| | Address | | P.O. Box 1301 | | Houston, Texas 77251-1301 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | | | |
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| Karen B. Tripp practices in the following areas of law:
Intellectual Property, Patents, Oilfield Patents, Chemical Patents, Licensing Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Copyright and Trademark Infringement. | | Firm Size: 1 | | Karen B. Tripp (Member) born Rocky Mount, North Carolina, September 2, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, Texas; 1982, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 1991, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; 1994, U.S. Supreme Court; 1998, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Ninth Circuits; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 2005, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., 1976); University of Alabama (J.D., 1981). Phi Alpha Delta. Executive Editor, Journal of the Legal Profession, 1980-1981. Editor: Intellectual Property Law Review, The Thomson West Group, New York, 1995-2007. Editor: Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook , The Thomson West Group, New York, 2007. Summer Law Clerk to Chief Justice, C.C. "Bo" Torbert, Alabama Supreme Court, 1980. Law Clerk, Espy, Nettles and Scogin, P.C., 1979-1981. Author: "Correcting Common Client Misconceptions About Protecting Trademarks," Executive Legal Advisor, May-June 2007; "To Traverse or Not to Traverse—Consequences of Restriction Requirements in United States Patent Practice," 2 (1) The Patent Journal 10-14, Aspen Publishers, Oct. 2002; "Copyrights Where You Least Expect Them," Seventeenth Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, Sept. 26-28, 2001; "Internet Update," State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Institute, Austin Texas, March 5-6, 1999. Author: "What Lawyers Can Copy in Daily Practice, Including the Law," State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law CLE, Austin, Texas, March 6-7, 2003; "Copyrighting the Law, Not!" The IP Litigator 1-6, Aspen Publishers, January 2003; "Patents & Trade Secrets," ASMG International Energy Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, 1999. Speaker: "Efforts to Copyright the Law, Recipes and Other Tales Relating to How Far Some Attempt to Take Copyright," Intellectual Property - A Means for Worldwide Protection Conference, Center for International Legal Studies, Sunshine Coast, Australia, Oct. 20, 2004; "U.S. and Foreign Patents," ETCE/OMAE 2000 Joint Conference, ASME International, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 14-17, 2000. Program Chair, Sixteenth Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, 2000. Member: Houston, Federal Circuit and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Houston Intellectual Property Law Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Patents; Trademarks; Copyrights. |
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