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The authors of the IP ADR Blog have their own independent mediation, arbitration, and/or law practices. We are not affiliated with one another in any way except to the extent that we share a mutual respect for each other's experience, knowledge, expertise and creativity. We are not one another's partners, business associates, agents, principals, joint venturers, employees, servants, masters or soothsayers. We simply share an interest in the negotiation of IP settlements; the arbitration of IP cases; and, the mediation of IP disputes. We each bring a different perspective, different industry knowledge and different legal and ADR experience to bear upon the issues raised by this blog.
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View Victoria Pynchon's profile
Victoria Pynchon is a full-time neutral with IP and insurance coverage specialties at the Southern California ADR firm ADR Services, Inc. and the renowned International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. She is also a Settlement Officer with the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Ms. Pynchon spent her legal career litigating "bet the company" antitrust, unfair competition, intellectual property and insurance coverage actions. Her clients have been in the garment and import-export industries, as well as in the health care, entertainment, banking and finance, manufacturing and insurance industries.
She is an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Straus Institute where she received her LL.M. in 2006. Ms. Pynchon received her J.D., Order of the Coif from U.C. Davis School of Law in 1980.
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Robert J. Rose is a registered patent attorney and practices patent prosecution and patent, copyright, trademark and antitrust litigation with Sheldon, Mak, Rose & Anderson in Pasadena, California. Mr. Rose has written, lectured and testified extensively as an expert in the areas of patents and antitrust.
Mr. Rose has authored patent litigation opinions in the fields of image compression, digital imaging, printer ink cartridges, industrial control of high-speed food processing machines, industrial lighting, geometric optics and remote control devices. He has been chair of the Board of Advisors to the Physics Department of the University of Arizona since 2000. He is also a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors for the College of Science at the UA. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law in intellectual property. He was also awarded the UA Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award in 2004, nominated by the College of Science. Mr. Rose was recently profiled in the American Physical Society newsletter, APS News, click here. Rose is Chambers rated.
Previously employed as Senior Litigation & Antitrust Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, he has valuable insight into the needs and problems of in-house counsel.
