Dr. Lawson joined the firm in 2006. He focuses his practice on creating patent portfolios for chemical, nanotechnology, materials science, and biotechnology companies and institutions.
Education
- J.D., with honors, University of Washington School of Law, 2007
- Ph.D., Chemistry/Nanotechnology, University of Washington, 2006
- M.S., Chemistry, Western Washington University, 2001
- B.S., Chemistry/Mathematics, University of Puget Sound, 1999
Professional Experience
- Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC, Seattle, WA
Associate, 2007 to present
Law Clerk, 2006 to 2007 - University of Washington Office of Technology Transfer, Seattle, WA
Legal Extern, Summer 2005
Technical Experience
- University Contracted Research Engineer, Boeing Phantom Works, 2003 to 2006
- WRF/Gates Fellow, University of Washington Business School Center for Technology Entrepreneurship, Summer 2003
- Research Scientist, Washington, Western Washington and Puget Sound, 1998 to 2006
Bar & Court Admissions
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Washington State Bar
Publications
“Electrically Tunable Ring Resonators Incorporating Nematic Liquid Crystals as Cladding Layers,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 83, 2003, pp. 4689-4691, B. Maune, R. Lawson, C. Gunn, A. Scherer, and L. Dalton.
“Simple Reflection Measurement of Nonlinear Optical Activity Using Silicon as an Electrode,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5212, 2003, pp. 326-331, M. A. Haller, R. Lawson, O. Clot, T. Sherwood, L. Dalton, and A. K. Jen.
“Systematic Studies of Organic Thin Film Transistor Improvements,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5351, 2004, pp. 291-297, I. Shuvalov, R. Lawson, and L. R. Dalton.
“Advances in Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Processing,” Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol. 357, 2004, pp. 3957-3966, K. A. Firestone, P. Reid, R. Lawson, S. H. Jang, and L. R. Dalton.
“Synthesis and Design of Organic Light-Emitting Devices Containing Lanthanide Cored Complexes,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5214, 2004, pp. 337-347, G. D. Phelan, B. Carlson, R. Lawson, D. Rowe, K. Allen, L. R. Dalton, X. Jiang, J. H. Kim, and A. K. Y. Jen.
“Optical Modulation and Detection in Slotted Silicon Waveguides,” Optics Express, Vol. 13, 2005, pp. 5216-5226, T. Baehr-Jones, M. Hochberg, G. Wang, R. Lawson, Y. Liao, P. A. Sullivan, L. R. Dalton, A. K. Y. Jen, and A. Scherer.
“Self-assembled monolayer modifications of organic thin film transistors,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5592, 2005, 437-442, I. Shuvalov, R. Lawson, H. Ma, A. K. Jen, and L. R. Dalton.
“Organic electro-optic glasses for WDM applications,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6014, pp. 210-224 (2005), L. Dalton, A. Scherer, A. Chen, A. Jen, P. Reid, B. Robinson, B. Eichinger, M. Hochberg, T. Baehr-Jones, A. Pyajt, J. Takayesu, P. Sullivan, A. Akelaitis, R. Lawson, D. Bale, M. Haller, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, S, Bhattacharjee, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, A. Sgro, N. Buker, R. Snoeberger, M. Lingwood, and W. Steier.
“All Optical Modulator in Silicon with Terahertz Bandwidth,” Nature Materials, Vol 5, 2006, pp. 703-709, M. Hochberg, T. Baehr-Jones, G. Wang, J. Parker, K. Harvard, J. Liu, B. Chen, Z. Shi, R. Lawson, P. Sullivan, A. K. Y. Jen, L. Dalton, and A. Scherer.
“Recent Advances in Organic Electro-Optic Materials for Ring Micro-resonators and Optical Modulation,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6101, 2006, pp. 61010S1-6, A. Akelaitis, P. Sullivan, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, Y. Liao, R. Lawson, J. Takayesu, B. Eichinger, H. Rommel, B. Robinson, and L. R. Dalton.
“Engineered Growth of Organic Crystalline Films Using Liquid Crystal Solvents,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128 (51), 16468 -16469, 2006, F. Wilkinson, R. Norwood, J. McLellan, L. Lawson, and D. Patrick.