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Herbert (Dick) Schulze

Of Counsel

5441 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200, Reno, NV 89511
P 775.327.3010
M 530.414.8016
OVERVIEW

Dick Schulze has over 30 years’ experience practicing and teaching patent and trademark law.

He writes and prosecutes patent and trademark applications and manages foreign counterparts. He regularly represents companies in the computer and high-tech electronics industries, as well as various small businesses and individual research scientists, product engineers, and inventors.

Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Dick was an in-house attorney managing intellectual property legal issues for Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard Co. While at Agilent he led the company’s IP program in its central research laboratories and supervised a staff of attorneys throughout the Asia-Pacific, the United States, Germany, and Singapore. While at Hewlett-Packard he was managing counsel for the company’s intellectual property. Dick also served in the U.S. Air Force as a military lawyer for five years in active duty and 25 years in the reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1997.

EXPERIENCE

Experience

Preparation and Prosecution
  • Domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution
Opinions and Counseling
  • Patent infringement and validity analysis 
  • Non-infringement and invalidity opinions 
  • Product design counseling
Patent Licensing and Due Diligence
  • Licensing negotiations and strategies 
  • Strategic patent acquisitions 
  • Product clearances 
  • IP due diligence
Strategic Trademark Portfolio Management
  • Preliminary and Full Searches and Clearances 
  • Registrations/Prosecution
  • Trademark acquisition and maintenance 
  • Development of domestic and international filing strategies 
  • Domestic and Worldwide Watch Services 
  • Strategies for international brand asset management 
  • Portfolio gap analysis 
  • Development of Proper Use guidelines
Other Areas of Experience
  • Copyright matters 
  • Trade secret protection
TECHNOLOGIES

Circuits, networks, and communication systems, computers, software, control systems, memory design and semiconductor fabrication, lasers and optics, nanotechnology

PRACTICES

Practices

Intellectual Property
Patent Prosecution, Counseling and Opinions
Global Trademark Portfolio Management
Trade Secrets and Non-Competes
Telecoms Transactions
INDUSTRIES

Industries

Outdoor Recreation
NEWS AND INSIGHTS

News

Publications

"Two book reviews in Colorado Lawyer; article on trademarks in Nevada Lawyer,"

Speaking Engagements

"Missed Opportunities: How Discrimination Against Women Inventors Has Denied Us All They Could Have Contributed," 2019
"Lecturer on patent and trademark topics at numerous state and local CLE programs in California, Nevada, and Kansas,"
EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS

Education

University of Chicago
J.D., 1970
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S.E.E., 1967
  • Electric Engineering

Bar Admissions

Colorado
Nevada
California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
South Dakota

Court Admissions

United States District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the District of Nevada
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Military Appeals
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

Professional and Civic Affiliations

  • American Bar Association Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections, Member 
  • California Bar Association, Member, 
  • Nevada Bar Association, Member 
  • Nevada State Bar IP Section, Chair 2019
  • Colorado Bar Association, Member 
  • Washoe County (NV) Bar Association, Member 
  • Tahoe-Truckee (CA) Bar Association, Member of Board of Directors 2016-2019, President 2019
  • University of Nevada Boyd School of Law, Adjunct Professor 
  • MIT Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, Faculty Member 2010-Present 
  • University of Nevada (Reno) and University of California (San Diego) business schools, former instructor in intellectual property 
  • Federal tort claims at U.S. Air Force Annual Survey of the Law, Lecturer 
  • Covenant House CA, Member of Board of Directors 2010-Present
  • North Tahoe ski resorts for winter youth programs of SOS Outreach, Local Program Coordinator 
  • Vail Resorts, Snowboard and Ski Instructor 2003-Present
  • Northstar CA Ski Resort, Snowboard Instructor 
  • Level 2 instructor certifications from AASI (Amer. Ass’n of Snowboard Instructors) and SBINZ (Snowboard Instructors New Zealand)
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