About DC-Based Intellectual Property Attorney Raymond Millien
Raymond Millien, co-founder of PCT Law Group, PLLC, brings a wealth of intellectual property (IP) and general corporate experience to the Firm. In 2009, he was named one of the 250 “World’s Leading IP Strategists” by IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) Magazine.
Mr. Millien’s practice includes developing strategies and counseling clients on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters, including drafting patent applications and technology-related agreements. Mr. Millien also performs IP portfolio evaluations and due diligence for corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, private offerings of equity and debt securities and bridge loans.
Prior to joining PCT, Mr. Millien was the General Counsel of Ocean Tomo, LLC, a leading IP merchant bank. Prior to Ocean Tomo, Mr. Millien was Vice President and IP Counsel at The American Express Company, where his responsibilities included managing the company’s global patent portfolio and leading technology and brand outward-licensing deals.
His previous experience includes practicing law in the Washington, DC offices of DLA Piper US LLP and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC. Prior to law school, Mr. Millien was a software design engineer with General Electric and is a graduate of the company’s Edison Engineering Program.
Mr. Millien has authored numerous articles, presented at conferences around the world and been quoted in major national publications. For over a decade, he was a national lecturer for the BAR/BRI® Patent Bar Review course, and has served as an adjunct professor of legal writing and oral advocacy at The George Washington University Law School.
He has coauthored two books: Little Blues: How to Build a Culture of Intellectual Property within a Small Technology Company (Euromoney, 2006), and From Finals to the Firm: Top Ten Things New Law Firm Associates Need To Know (2nd ed. West 2009; 1st ed. Matthew Bender 2003).
Mr. Millien received a B.S. from Columbia University, and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, New York, Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court bars, is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is a Certified Licensing Professional™ by the Licensing Executive Society (LES).
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Contact Information:
Raymond Millien, Esq.
PCT Law Group, PLLC
+1.202.683.8929
+1.904.701.4979
rmillien@pctlg.com
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Dear Raymond,
This is a tip for your blog. I predict this case could be the second of the one-two punch against lowering the “clear and convincing” standard Microsoft challenged. Facebook is challenging it too in this case.
It is pretty unbelievable that this case has not gotten more publicity. However, as I wondered why and dug into it, I discovered that Facebook sealed practically everything, so no one could read their position, except through Leader’s responses. It appears that Leader’s attorney Paul Andre chose not to contest all the pointless sealing so as not to create disputes that would delay the trial. However, now that the trial record is complete, I and others have started digging at PACER. What we have uncovered is mindboggling.
I have been tracking this Leader v. Facebook case for a long time. I have kept expecting to see you pick up on it given the popularity of the subject matter…. Facebook (and their attack on privacy). You might want to investigate. It’s in appeal now. It would appear that after all this time Zuckerberg is finally getting outted. I never did buy his claim to have invented Facebook in “one or two weeks” while studying for finals. The Leader inventor’s son Max was in the dorm next to Zuck (!!!) and appears to be in medical school now. I’m guessing from the trial records that Zuck hacked a Leader white paper from the inventor’s son’s Harvard email account (maybe even the very night of the infamous hacking of student photos depicted in The Social Network movie) that described McKibben’s invention which Zuck just mimicked and launched a month later with the help of his Accel Partners and Peter Thiel handlers. Think about it. This finally makes sense. Zuck didn’t have enough time to invent all that stuff that quickly, unless he was just implementing a blueprint laid out for him. Some of the illustrations in the white paper are the same as in the patent. There’s even strong evidence that Facebook had to wait until the Leader patent published in the summer of 2004 to add the “groups functionality” in Facebook because they couldn’t figure out how to do it without the patent.
Some bloggers are picking up the trail with a lot of good links to the trial record.
http://facebook-technology-origins.blogspot.com/
http://www.scribd.com/ppratt357
http://blog.patentcalls.com/2011/07/28/facebooks-patent-trial-victory-tested-on-appeal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Patent-Connections-Articles+(Patent+News+%26+IP+News+»+Articles)
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/print-edition/2011/08/19/leader-technologies-forging-on-with.html
Hope this helps.
Kathy Craine