Robert W. Payne

Attorney at Law

19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
Suite 200
Monterey CA 93940
Tel: (831)649-8800
Fax: (831)649-8835

Practice Areas:

• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Licensing

Professional and Community Activities:

• Chair of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California (2002-2003) and current Advisor to Executive Committee
• Chair of the Patent Litigation Committee of the AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association)(2009-)
• Former Chair of the Trade Secrets Committee of the AIPLA
• Member of the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association
• Served on the Editorial Board of the AIPLA's Quarterly Journal
• Former editor of New Matter journal, the official quarterly publication of the Intellectual Property Section of the California State Bar
• Clerked for Justice Allan G. Shepard of the Supreme Court of Idaho (1975-77)

Education:

• LL.M. International Law - University College, University of London (1978)
• J.D. - University of California, Davis (1975)
• B.A. - Stanford University (1972)

Additional Information of Interest:

• Mr. Payne is a partner in the law firm of LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP
• Admitted to practice before the Federal Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California
• Admitted to Practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas, the Western District of Washington, and Colorado
• Admitted to the California Bar (1976)
• Admitted to the Texas Bar (2007)
• Admitted to the Idaho Bar (1976)
• Admitted to the Washington State Bar (2000)

Mr. Payne has written over twenty-five published articles on intellectual property subjects and has spoken to numerous professional groups on intellectual property subjects, including:

• "Beyond the Scope of the Claims -- Patent Damages and Apportionment," to be published in New Matter, 2010. Related papers published in IP Litigator magazine (2009) and for AIPLA online presentation on patent damages (2009)
• "Design Patent Enforcement After Egyptian Goddess" -- California Bar Assoc. Intellectual Property Section: New Matter journal, Spring, 2009
• "The Case In Favor of Federal Circuit De Novo Review" - California Bar Assoc. Intellectual Property Section: New Matter, Spring 2007
• "Departing Employees and 'Abandoned' Research" - California Bar Assoc. Intellectual Property Section: New Matter, Fall 2005
• "Patents vs. Trade Secrets: When Should Inventions Remain Trade Secrets?" - AIPLA Conference Presentation Paper, January 2002
• "'Equivalence' by Any Other Name" - California Bar Assoc. Intellectual Property Section: New Matter, Winter 2002
• "Creative Remedies for Domain Name Disputes" - California Lawyer, August 1999
• "Rico And The 'Net: Racketeering Attacks In Domain Name Disputes" - Mealey's Litigation Report: Intellectual Property, June 1997
• "What's So Different About Patent Litigation?" - Santa Clara Bar Association Technology in the Future: In Brief, Summer 1995
• "Copyright Registration of a Competitor's Logo” - California State Bar Association Intellectual Property Section: New Matter, Winter 1995
• "Assignment of Inventions: Time is of the Essence” - The Law Works, (May 1994)
• "Protecting Trade Secrets When an Employee Leaves" - California Lawyer, November, 1985