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Academic Background
J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
(2010)
Ph.D., Electrical
Engineering, University of Washington (1999)
M.S., Electrical
Engineering, University of Washington (1998)
B.S., Electrical
Engineering, University of Washington (1996)
Areas of Technology
-- System and device level integrated circuits
-- Semiconductor
devices and processes
-- Networking technology: hardware and
software
-- Computer software
Experience
Prior to law school, Dr. Thorp
worked on state-of-the-art semiconductor memory designs at SanDisk
and Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by SanDisk) and next-generation
microprocessor designs at Sun Microsystems. At Matrix, he helped
pioneer the design and development of three-dimensional non-volatile
semiconductor memories.
Dr. Thorp holds
over 50 U.S. Patents and was previously an Affiliate Assistant
Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University
of Washington.
Honors and
Membership
-- Dean’s Fellow, Santa Clara University
School of Law
-- Articles Editor, Santa Clara Law Review
--
Honors Moot Court, Semi-finalist
-- ABA/BNA Award for Excellence
in Intellectual Property Law
-- High-Technology Law Certificate,
with honors
-- Witkin Award for Academic
Excellence, Technology and the Regulation of Competition (IP and
Antitrust)
-- Witkin Award for Academic Excellence, IP Litigation
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Invited embedded tutorial, "Design and analysis of power
distribution networks in high performance microprocessors," 2001
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Admissions
Supreme Court of California (2011)
United States District Court
for the Northern District of California United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
United States Patent & Trademark Office
(2006)
Selected
Publications
| -- “Testing the
Limits of Patent Exhaustion’s Authorized Sale Requirement Using
Current High-Tech Licensing Practices,” 50 Santa Clara L. Rev.
1017 (2010) |
| -- "512 Mbit PROM with a
Three-Dimensional Array of Diode/Antifuse Memory Cells," Journal of
Solid-State Circuits, Nov. 2003 |
| -- "Design and Synthesis of Dynamic
Circuits," Transactions on VLSI Systems, Feb. 2003 |
| -- "Analysis of Blocking Dynamic Circuits," 2002 International
Conference on Computer Design |
| -- "IC Power Distribution
Challenges," 2001 International Conference on Computer-Aided
Design |
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