Les J Weinstein

Antitrust and Intellectual Property

Litigation, Licensing, Arbitration & Mediation

Experience

Les J Weinstein’s practice primarily involves antitrust, patent and technology litigation and related licensing issues in federal and state courts. Mr. Weinstein is also a registered patent lawyer authorized to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Additionally, he is an American Arbitration Association (and its International Center for Dispute Resolution) Commercial Arbitrator and a member of the following three AAA panels: Patent Panel, International Panel and the Large Complex Case Panel. He also serves as an Attorney Settlement ADR Officer under an appointment from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Mr. Weinstein was invited by the Federal Trade Commission to participate in its year-long hearings, where he presented his views on the 2003 Report on Competition, Patent Law and Policy.

Mr. Weinstein began his legal career with an appointment to the U.S. Attorney General’s Program

for Honor Law Graduates in the Antitrust Division. He was the first registered patent lawyer to serve in the Division. His civil and criminal case assignments involved the pharmaceutical, chemical, electronic, automotive and machine industries, with several of his trial, appellate and legislative assignments involving the patent/antitrust interface. He also facilitated the formation of the Patent Section of the Antitrust Division.

Mr. Weinstein was a featured speaker in 2000 at the first plenary meeting of the All China Bar Association in Beijing, China on the topic of China, the WTO and Antitrust Law Enforcement. In 1999, he was a DecisionQuest featured trial lawyer in The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal. In 1998, he lectured to The Korean Intellectual Property Association, Seoul, Korea (The Patent-Antitrust Interface: Risks and Opportunities). For several years he served on the Advisory Committee and presented on various intellectual property and antitrust related topics at the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Leadership Conferences.

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

California

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Registered Patent Attorney

Education

George Washington University Law School

Washington, D.C.

J.D., with distinction

LL.M., Antitrust, Trade Regulation and

Intellectual Property

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Government Service

Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice Special Litigation Section

Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Electro-mechanical servo systems art unit

Professional Leadership

American Bar Association

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Antitrust Executive Committee

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Speaker/Teacher

Guest Lecturer, Patent Law and Competition, The Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics (2003)

Publications

Going on the Offensive: Countering the Pre-Patent Trend in Patent Litigation, The General Counsel Advisor, Vol. 2, No. I (Spring 1994)

The Application of Section 7 of the Clayton Act to Patents, George Washington University

Patent, Copyright and Trademark Journal

Los Angeles County Bar Association Antitrust Section on the Patent/Antitrust Interface (2001, 2002 and 2003)