Clyde E. Findley
Work in Berenzweig Leonard, LLP
Top Rated Family Law Attorney in McLean, VA
Intellectual Property, Business Law
8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1250, McLean, VA 22102
About Clyde E. Findley
Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property
- Business Law
Education
- George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VirginiaJuris Doctor Cum Laude, Litigation Track
- Law Review: George Mason Law Review, Managing Editor
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Northern Virginia Graduate Center, 1987Graduate study in Computer Science
- George Washington University, 1981Graduate Study in Computer Science
- James Madison University, 1977Bachelor of Science
- Major: Mathematics
- Minor: Biology
Representative Cases
- Caldwell & Assoc., LLC v. Christina Minton, Inc. (Va. Beach) Represented plaintiff CPA firm in a dis-puted business dissolution case; successfully obtained an agreed dismissal of all claims.
- Kebet-Koulibaly v. Keri Shull Lesniak, et al. (Arlington Co.) Successfully represented a real estate de-veloper defendant to obtain a dismissal of allegations.
- NorthStar Aviation, LLC v. Alberto, (E.D. Va.) Represented defendant aviation contractor and former executive in lawsuit by former employer claiming over $71 million in damages alleging breach of fiduciary duty, common law conspiracy, fraud, statutory conspiracy, tortious interference with business relationships and expectancies, conversion, defamation per se, and unjust enrichment; mo-tion to dismiss granted on four counts and successfully limited remaining claims.
- TomTom, Inc. v. Adolph (Fed. Cir.) Represented patent owner in a multi-year patent infringement litigation at both the district court and appellate level involving technology to crowd-source the creation of digital maps; successfully appealed district court claim construction ruling, achieving complete reversal and remand.
- Glasser v. Barboza, et al. (E.D. Va.) Represented defendant game manufacturer in patent infringe-ment litigation; successfully obtained an order of dismissal based on improper venue.
- Canon U.S.A., Inc. v. Kevin Collins (E.D. Va.) Obtained a stipulated dismissal of trade secret misap-propriation allegations against a former employer.
- Oracle America, Inc. v. Service Key, LLC (N.D. Cal.) Successfully defended small business against alle-gations of copyright infringement relating to Unix operating system software.
- 602531 British Columbia, LTD v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (D. NJ) Achieved voluntary dismissal with prejudice for defendant in a patent infringement suit involving automobile user interface soft-ware.
- Automotive Technologies Int’l, Inc, v. Delphi Corp., et al. (E.D. Mich.) Represented defendant in patent infringement suit involving automotive air bag suppression technology; helped to secure summary judgment of invalidity against all asserted patents.
- Quantum Systems Integrators, Inc. v. Sprint Nextel Corporation (E.D. Va.) Successfully defended large company in copyright infringement trial involving network monitoring software.
- R.R. Donnelley v. Kodak (D. Del.) Represented defendant in patent infringement suit involving vari-able data printing software.
- Hayes v. Penny & Giles (D. N.J.) Represented defendant in patent infringement suit involving endo-thermic heat sink in flight data recorders.
- Curtiss-Wright v. Velan (W.D. Tex.) Represented plaintiff in patent infringement action involving industrial valves used to de-head coke drums during oil refining operations.
- Leapfrog Enters., Inc. v. Fisher–Price, Inc. (D. Del.) Represented defendant in a patent infringement action involving children’s book-reading technology.
- Research in Motion Ltd. v. Eastman Kodak Co. (N.D. Tex.) Supported counter-claim plaintiff in expert discovery portion of multi-firm patent infringement suit involving object linking and embedding software within Internet browsers.
- Sightsound.com v. CDNow (W.D. Pa.) Represented plaintiff in patent infringement action involving sale of music in digital form over the Internet.
Classes and Seminars
- International Patent Licensing Issues and Concerns, American Conference Institute conference on Licensing Intellectual Property, - 2003
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Virginia
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers
Past Positions
- George Mason University School of Law, Adjunct Professor
Articles
Published Works
- Software Developers Can Relax, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2016.
- Avoiding Software Patent Quicksand, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2015.
- Patent FAQs: What Happens During the Patent Process? Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2015.
- Patent FAQs: How Much Does it Cost? Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2014.
- Patent FAQs: Why Do I Need a Patent Attorney? Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2014.
- USPTO Sees New Examination Policy through Alice’s Looking Glass, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2014.
- Alice v. CLS Bank: Abstract Idea + Generic Computer = Sorry, No Patent, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2014.
- Patent Infringement Gets Costly: Time To Pay Up For Filing An Unreasonable Case, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2014.
- Hope for Software Patents, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2013.
- Cost of Frivolous Cases, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2013.
- Using Enablement to Award Patent Infringement Damages, Findley, Decoding IP Blog, 2013.
- Unfair Competition and the ITC – Actions Before the International Trade Commission Under Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (2004 Edition) by Donald Knox Duvall; General Editors: Philip J. McCabe, John W. Bateman; Senior Co-Editor: Fred T. Grasso; Co-Editors: Clyde E. Findley, John B. McDaniel, Robert F. Vroom.
- Getting Patently Offensive (analysis of recent high-dollar awards in patent cases), Brian S. Mudge and Clyde Findley, C|Net News.com, January 2004.
- International Patent Licensing Issues and Concerns, William K. Wells and Clyde Findley, American Conference Institute conference on Licensing Intellectual Property, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2003.
- Festo – Who Decides Prosecution History Estoppel? Clyde E. Findley, Walter E. Hanley, Jr., Kenyon & Kenyon website Hot Topic (www.kenyon.com), March 2003.
- Valuation Strategies For IP Assets, William K. Wells and Clyde Findley, Sept. 2001.
- Stupidity -- A View From One Skilled in the Art (a humorous discussion of the natural human reliance on incomplete information and artificial models of reality), The Docket: George Mason University School of Law Newspaper, August 16, 2001.
- The Fiasco in Florida: A Legal Perspective (a short analysis of the Democratic litigation strategy during the 2000 Presidential Election protest in Florida), The Docket: George Mason University School of Law Newspaper, February 6, 2001.
- Optimal Layouts for the San Diego Processing and Distribution Center, Feldman, Findley, Lu, Tsai; Report to the U.S. Postal Service, May 1994.
- An Analysis of Material Handling and Mail Processing Equipment Configurations in USPS Processing & Distribution Centers, Feldman, Findley, Lu; Report to the U.S. Postal Service, July 1993.
- An Analysis of the Postal Automated Staging and Retrieval System (PASRS) for the West Sacramento, California Mail Processing Center, Findley, Weller; Jet Poste 93 Conference on Postal Technology, The Technical Research Department of La Poste, Cité des Congrès, Nantes (France), June 14 - 16, 1993.
- A 3-D Control and Simulation Analysis Tool For The United States Postal Service, Barbera, Lu, Fitzgerald, Findley; American Society of Mechanical Engineers Japan-USA Symposium, San Francisco, CA, July 13-15, 1992.
- Methods of Mosaicking Multiple Videodisc Map Images, Findley, Brooks, Singer, Tepe; Perceptronics Technical Paper, 1988.
- Local Geocoordinate Error Correction in Videodisc Mapping Systems, Findley, Singer, Brooks; Perceptronics Technical Paper, 1988.
- Real-time Surrogate Travel using Videodisc Technology, Donelson, Findley; Videomagic Laboratories Technical Paper, 1984.
- Videodisc Mapping Techniques, Johnston, Smoot, Findley; Perceptronics Technical Paper, 1983.
- Multiple Air Combat Evaluation, Higginbotham, Glascow, Findley, et al.; Institute for Defense Analyses, 1981.
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Employment, Business Law, Government Contracts
- Government Contracts, Business Law, Employment
- Employment, Business Law, Government Contracts
- Government Contracts, Business Law
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