Kinsella Libertarian CV

Curriculum Vitae of N. Stephan Kinsella

Email: nskinsella -at- gmail dot com

EDUCATION

• LL.M. (International Business Law) (1991-1992), King’s College London–University of London
• J.D. (1988-1991), Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
• M.S. Electrical Engineering (1987-1990), Louisiana State University
• B.S. Electrical Engineering (1983-1987), Louisiana State University

EXPERIENCE

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), Houston, Texas • 10/2000-present

• General Counsel, Vice President-Intellectual Property & Assistant Secretary
• Administer and handle AOI’s IP Protection Strategy; patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and IP portfolio management.
• Handle various legal matters, including: venture capital, contract preparation and review, corporate law, board matters, export licenses, immigration/H-1B visas, employment/HR, etc.
• Supervision of legal affairs of the company and outside counsel.
• In charge of organizing company crawfish boils and provision of cigars and scotch on as-needed basis.

Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & Houston, Texas • 8/1997-10/2000

• Partner (1/2000-10/2000), Associate (1997-2000), IP Dept.
• International Law Practice Group; Telecommunications and Information Technologies Practice Group; Y2K Task Force
• Opened Houston Office, 12/1997

Schnader Harrison LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 5/1994-7/1997

• Associate, IP Dept.; also Internet Law and Computer Networking Practice Group

Jackson Walker L.L.P., Houston, Texas • 9/1992-4/1994

• Associate, IP and Energy Sections; also International Law Practice Group

Law firm experience has focused on patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and counseling, and related aspects of IP and Internet-related law.

Patent & IP law: Patent prosecution in a wide array of technologies, including video and signal processing, computer hardware and software, electronics and electro-mechanical technology, IC fabrication, and optoelectronics. IP litigation support, licensing, international aspects of IP matters, and Internet-related law. Appeals briefs to PTO; preparation of infringement and validity opinions; preparation of trademark applications, response letters and appeals briefs to Trademark Commissioner. Preparation of and advice regarding software and patent licenses. Computer- and Internet-related law, including advice concerning trademark disputes related to Internet domain names, copyright registration of web-site-related works. Editor of the Oceana treatises Trademark Practice and Forms and World Online Business Law.

Other: International: Involvement in litigation freezing assets of foreign defendants, preparation of letters rogatory through Hague Inter-American Convention; advised clients on U.S. export controls applicable to computer-related exports; published several articles and book concerning international law relating to investments in developing nations; served as judge in regional rounds of 1993 and 1994 Jessup International Moot Court Competition held at South Texas College of Law. Evaluate and advise on draft foreign investment laws of Lithuania, Russia (Nizhny Novgord oblast), and Romania for ABA Central and East European Law Initiative. Author of Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk; editor of Digest of Commercial Laws of the World. Oil & Gas: Preparation of title opinions covering Texas, Louisiana, and Federal Offshore producing properties, and related acquisitions; preparation and review of offshore and onshore oilfield service contracts, infrastructure facilities operating agreements, and similar operating agreements; preparation of amicus curiae briefs to Texas Supreme Court.

LICENSED TO PRACTICE: Texas (1992), Louisiana (1992; inactive), Pennsylvania (1994; inactive), U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (1994)

AFFILIATIONS

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) (LSU Chapter President, 1987); Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society) (LSU Chapter President, 1987); Board of Directors, Houston Chapter, The Federalist Society (1997-1999); Development Council, LSU Law Alumni Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Editor-in-Chief/Founding member, PBA IP Law Section Newsletter, 1997-1998; Chair, Computer Law Subcommittee, Federalist Society IP Practice Group; Adjunct Scholar, Ludwig von Mises Institute; Counsel, The Liberty Committee; Associate Editor, Ron Paul Liberty in Media Awards; Counsel, Acting Treasurer, Property and Freedom Society. Advisory Panel member, Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) (July 2009-present).

HONORS

• LSU Law Alumni Association Scholarship; LSU Alumni Federation Scholarship; T.H. Harris Scholarship; American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts
• the Mises Institute‘s O.P. Alford III Prize for scholarly article published during 2001-2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, awarded at the eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002, Auburn, Alabama, for the article Against Intellectual Property, Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies

TEACHING AND SPEAKING

• South Texas College of Law, Houston: Adjunct professor (Computer Law) Fall 1998, 1999
• Variety of speeches, papers and activities related to legal and political topics, including speeches before: Federalist Society, Philadelphia Chapter, regarding the Ninth Amendment (May 6, 1997); Federalist Society, Philadelphia Chapter, regarding legal codes and systems (September 9, 1997); Internet Service Provider Liability Seminar, Philadelphia (June 1996); The Freeman Society of Valley Forge (Mar. 4, 1996); Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (Jan. 27, 1996); and LSU Mineral Law Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (March 1994); Planning Committee Member & Speaker, 1998 Oil & Gas Law Institute, South Texas College of Law [present paper on Patents and Intellectual Property in the Oil & Gas Industry; Aug. 1998]; Judge, Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Houston, Texas(1993 & 1994); Chair, Scholars of the Austrian School panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 5, 1997); Chair and paper, Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 3, 1998); speaker/panelist, Union panel, HOBY Texas Gulf Coast 1998 Leadership Seminar, Rice University; paper, A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title Transfer, and Inalienability, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999); Planning Committee Member & Moderator, 1999 Energy Law Institute, South Texas College of Law, Aug. 1999; Speaker, Crime, Punishment and Restitution, Liberal Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, May 27, 1999; panelist, Twenty-Second International Conference on the Unity of Sciences, Military and Police–Public or Private? committee, Seoul, Korea, February 9-13, 2000; paper, The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March 25, 2000); chair, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March 30-31, 2001); faculty, Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (July 28-Aug. 2, 2002); presented speech The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism [PPT, 32 MB; PDF version, 51MB], Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (Audio; Video; Google Video version), Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008; presented speech on “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism” at Mises University 2009, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, July 30, 2009.

LIBERTARIAN-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

• See www.stephankinsella.com/publications

ADDITIONAL INFO

• Brief Libertarian Bio (Libertarian)
• How I Became A Libertarian, December 18, 2002, LewRockwell.com
• Brief Bio-Professional (from KinsellaLaw)
• Detailed CV-Professional (from KinsellaLaw)
• Legal Publications (from KinsellaLaw)