Stewart MesherShareholder/DirectorLanguages SpokenSpanishHebrew |
STEWART MESHER - Shareholder/Director
BiographyStewart Mesher focuses on intellectual property litigation and transactions, as well as counseling related to copyrights, patents, trademarks, unfair competition, and Internet domain name rights. His experience in the high technology arena includes open source software licensing, technology licensing and development agreements, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, due diligence, counterfeiting issues, contract disputes and business counseling. He has significant software experience and electronics industry experience, both from his work as an attorney and from a pre-law engineering and engineering management career spanning several years that included the areas of robotics and CAD/CAM/CIM systems for fine-pitch surface mount assembly, as well as microelectronics manufacturing and hybrid circuits processing. Mr. Mesher received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Vanderbilt University, a Master in Business Administration from Seattle University, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Metallurgical) from the University of Washington. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, Washington State, various federal courts, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Attorney. In addition, Mr. Mesher is a licensed Professional Engineer in Washington State. Mr. Mesher also obtained extensive experience as in-house counsel at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. He advised the Corporate Vice-Presidents of AMD's desktop and server processor businesses, as well as its platform engineering team. As part of his duties, Mr. Mesher supported product development and public relations / marketing teams. He also supported AMD's intellectual property litigation and licensing activities, and negotiated contracts and non-disclosure agreements. While at AMD he was awarded a Corporate Vice-President Spotlight Award. Mr. Mesher speaks Spanish and Hebrew. He was on the Editorial Board of Managing Intellectual Property Magazine, has been a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lecturer, served as a Vice-President and as a Director to the Association of Corporate Counsel's Austin Chapter, and is appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. Mr. Mesher has been listed in Texas Monthly magazine as a "Texas SuperLawyers - Rising Star," and in H Texas magazine's "Lawyers on the Fast Track." Practice AreasEducationJ.D., 1997
Memberships•State Bar of Texas •Washington State Bar •Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office •Admitted to practice before: U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas; U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado; U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington •American Intellectual Property Law Association •Austin Intellectual Property Law Association
Honors
Served from 1998 to 2000 as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable William Baker, Chief Judge of the Washington State Court of Appeals |
