richard j. holzer, jr.
Mr. Holzer practices intellectual property (IP) law, emphasizing the development and management of intellectual property portfolios for clients of all sizes. He is a registered patent attorney who has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign patent applications relating to computer, software, electronics, mechanical and business method technologies. Mr. Holzer also prepares and prosecutes trademark applications and counsels clients on proper use of their trademarks. He evaluates IP portfolios, analyzes patents for offensive and defensive purposes, provides opinions of counsel on invalidity and noninfringement, and provides litigation support for intellectual property issues. Mr. Holzer has:

• Represented a leading software company in patent procurement, portfolio analysis, and patent analysis, including handling the patent procurement for its research lab in the United Kingdom.
• Represented a client defendant in a patent infringement suit involving over two hundred defendants throughout the world.
• Prepared and prosecuted patent applications for leading data storage, ion source, and semiconductor clients.
• Counseled startup companies on developing intellectual property strategies.
• Evaluated portfolios amounting to nearly a thousand patents in due diligence for a billion dollar merger.

Mr. Holzer practiced as an electrical and software engineer for seven years with NCR Microelectronics (now LSI Logic) before attending law school at the University of Michigan. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Mr. Holzer has practiced law in Colorado at Holland & Hart, Merchant & Gould, and Lee & Hayes. He is registered to practice in Colorado and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. District Court of Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit.