Professional Summary
Mr. Thompson's practice encompasses all facets of intellectual property. His patent prosecution experience includes all of the electrical and mechanical arts including: computers (hardware and software), medical devices, medical diagnostic methods, semiconductor manufacturing, nuclear reactors, telecommunications, turbines (gas and steam), PBX switching, CCD cameras, toothbrushes, automotive parts, and many others. Mr. Thompson also has been involved with trademark matters of all kinds, namely filing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign trademarks, including applications to register product configurations, and contested inter partes administrative proceedings before the Trademark Office (oppositions and cancellations). He also has handled ex parte appeals to administrative tribunals of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including oral arguments.

Mr. Thompson has been active in litigation both as counsel for plaintiffs seeking to protect their intellectual property, and as counsel for defendants accused of infringing the rights of others. He has appeared in Federal district courts across the United States, as well as in Federal courts of appeal. Mr. Thompson has been lead trial counsel and has also been the prevailing attorney in several reported decisions on novel points of law.

In addition, Mr. Thompson has counseled clients in many industries in the licensing of their intellectual property, and in strategies for maximizing the worth of that property, and has represented several prominent entertainers in litigation and other intellectual property matters.

Education
J.D., B.S. (EE) (Combined Degree) Columbia University, 1978
New York University Graduate School of Law: Post-graduate law courses in Trade Regulation

Admissions
New York
U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York
U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Memberships
American Bar Association
New York Intellectual Property Law Association
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mensa Society

Articles
“Business Methods and Software Patents in the United States,” Peking University Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 2, p. 350

Decisions
Newport News Holding Corp. v. Virtual City Vision, Inc., and Van James Bond Tran., Final Order. Case No. 4:08-cv-0019-FBS (E.D. Va. July 27, 2009).

Newport News Holdings Corp. v. Virtual City Vision, Inc., et al., Case No. 4:08-cv-00019 (E.D. Va. Feb. 3, 2009).

CPLP Stops “Bad” C.A.T.’s Patent Infringement; Wins Significant Damages Award for Client Hypoxico, (February 2009).

Elite Licensing, Inc. v. Thomas Plastics, Inc., 250 F. Supp. 2d 372 (S.D.N.Y. 2003).

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