Mr. Graham is a registered patent attorney with experience in a wide array of intellectual property matters. For many years he has been named a Washington Super Lawyer by Washington Law and Politics, including the listing of the “Top 40” lawyers for Intellectual Property, and is listed by Chambers USA as one of the Leading Lawyers in Washington for intellectual property law. He has extensive litigation experience at the trial and appellate levels, and has successfully argued cases before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and many other courts. Mr. Graham has participated in countless successful mediations on behalf of his clients, and is an approved mediator within the Western District of Washington. He has authored numerous law review and journal articles on intellectual property law topics, many columns as an editorial board member and legal column editor for IEEE Software magazine, and a book entitled “Legal Battles that Shaped the Computer Industry.”  For more than a decade Mr. Graham has been an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law where he teaches patent litigation and patent prosecution. He has also taught at the Pepperdine University School of Business and has lectured at the University of Washington School of Law.

Practice Areas

Patents, trademarks, copyrights and related litigation.

Education

• J.D., University of Washington, with honors (1995)
• MBA, Pepperdine University (1990)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy (1987)

Admitted

• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
• All Washington State Courts
• Various admissions pro hac vice
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Publications

Books

• Lawrence D. Graham, Legal Battles that Shaped the Computer Industry, (Greenwood Press, 1999)

Editorial Boards & Columns

• Editorial Board member and SoftLaw column editor for IEEE Software journal, 1998-2000
• Keep Your Bots to Yourself, IEEE Software, Nov/Dec 2000, p. 106
• The Legal Tortoise and the Technology Hare, IEEE Software, Sept/Oct 2000, p. 18
• Debunking Software Patent Myths, IEEE Software, Jul/Aug 2000, p. 122
• Recent Patent Reform Legislation, IEEE Software, May/Jun 2000, p. 101
• Trademarks and Potholes on the Superhighway, IEEE Software, Sept/Oct 1999, p. 19
• Act Quickly to Avoid Losing Patents, IEEE Software, Mar/Apr 1999, p. 33
• Legal Implications of Operating Systems, IEEE Software, Jan/Feb 1999, p. 20

Journal Articles and Other Publications

• Lawrence D. Graham, Make Trademark Protection a Priority for New Businesses, WSBA Business Section Newsletter, (Dec. 1999)
• Lawrence D. Graham, The Personal Jurisdiction Effects of Infringement Warning Letters, 78 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc’y 858 (1996)
• Lawrence D. Graham & Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., Economically Efficient Treatment of Computer Software: Reverse Engineering, Protection, and Disclosure, 22 Rutgers Computer & Tech L. J. 61 (1996) (cited in numerous publications)
• Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. & Lawrence D. Graham, Computer Software and Reverse Engineering: Decompilation as Fair Use, JEIDA Reverse Engineering Symposium, 1996
• Lawrence D. Graham, Alaska, in State Trademark Law, (International Trademark Association 1996-98)
• Lawrence D. Graham, Copyright Basics Part 1: Avoiding Copyright Infringement, Employee Development, Spring/Summer 1996
• Lawrence D. Graham, Copyright Basics Part 2: Protecting Your Valuable Copyrights, Employee Development, Fall 1996
• Lawrence D. Graham, Lost and Foundry: Forging a New Approach to Patent Licensing Agreements, 69 Washington Law Review 793 (1994) (cited in Worth Reading, Nat’l L. J., Feb. 13, 1995, at B13)
• Lawrence D. Graham, Predicting Academic Success of Students in a Master of Business Administration Program, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Autumn, 1991
• R.T. Goalwin, R.A. Williams, L.D. Graham, & Y.P. Loh, On-Orbit Performance Tests of DSCS III Receive MBA, IEEE MILCOMM, Spring, 1990

Presentations

• Numerous CLE and other presentations on intellectual property topics

Teaching

• Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, 1999 to present. Courses taught:
  Patent Prosecution Lab
  Patent Litigation Lab
  Intellectual Property
  Patent Law
  
• Guest Lecturer, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, 1L Property
• Guest Lecturer, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, 1997, SE 533, Software Contract Management
• Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, 1990-1992. Courses taught:
  Business Statistics (MBA 671)
  Statistics and Research Methods (BSM 421)

• BLG Prevails in Trade Dress and Patent Dispute
• Supreme Court Upholds Patentability of Software and Business Methods
• Court of Appeals Reins in False Marking Litigation
• BLG attorneys selected for 2010 Washington Super Lawyers listing
• False patent marking requires greater attention
• BLG wins summary judgment finding trade dress to be functional in slurry pump case
• BLG prevails in Eighth Circuit appeal; contract ruled to require arbitration of patent claims
• BLG obtains preliminary injunction against trademark and domain name infringement
• BLG prevails in inter partes reexamination; patent claims upheld
• BLG obtains favorable claim construction ruling and settlement in patent infringement defense
• BLG wins summary judgment of patent invalidity in ski patent defense
• BLG wins patent appeal in European Patent Office
• BLG wins Federal Circuit appeal in defense of patent infringement
• Court of Appeals alters test for design patent infringement
• BLG settles patent infringement dispute involving ozone-based cleaning equipment patent
• BLG settles patent infringement dispute involving football patent