Attorney Profiles

Mr. Trojan is a registered patent attorney with twenty years experience obtaining patents and trademarks throughout the world for his clients. He is also a trial lawyer with extensive experience successfully litigating patents, trademarks, and trade dress cases throughout the United States, and successfully arguing appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. With respect to licensing, Mr. Trojan has negotiated complex multinational patent licenses for his clients and has developed effective licensing strategies for monetizing entire patent portfolios.

Representative Cases:

Akazawa v. Link New Technology Intern., Inc., 520 F.3d 1354 (Fed. Cir. 2008)
International patent case holding that Japanese law controls ownership of a United States patent when the owner of the patent is Japanese.

Slip Track Systems, Inc. v. Metal Lite, Inc., 304 F.3d 1256 (Fed. Cir. 2002)
Clarified rules for resolving patent ownership disputes when two inventors claim to have invented the same invention.
   
Slip Track Systems, Inc. v. Metal Lite, Inc., 159 F.3d 1337 (Fed. Cir. 1998)
Established that a jury trial in district court is the proper forum for resolving fights between inventors over who was the first to invent when both have obtained a patent for the same invention rather than a reexamination proceeding in the Patent Office.

Sengoku Works, Ltd. v. RMC International., Ltd., 96 F.3d 1217 (9th Cir. 1996)
Holding that between a foreign manufacturer and United States distributor, trademark rights are presumed to be owned by the foreign manufacturer.

Murray v. Cable National Broadcasting Co., 86 F.3d 858 (9th Cir. 1996)
Holding that the Ninth Circuit does not recognize reverse confusion claims in trademark cases.

T.A.B. Systems v. Pactel Teletrac, 77 F.3d 1372 (Fed.Cir. 1996)
Seminal decision establishing the Federal Circuit's test for analogous use in trademark ownership disputes.

Ocean Garden, Inc. v. Marktrade Co., Inc., 953 F.2d 500, (9th Cir. 1991)
On the brief only: retained to prepare portion of brief addressing extraterritorial jurisdiction.