Chad's experience ranges from advising clients on how to best detect and capture the value of their innovations, preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications on a cost effective basis, to prosecution reissue and re-examination applications. He has experience in exploiting IP rights through licensing, assignment and when necessary litigation. He helps clients steer clear of interference from the IP rights of others with validity, infringement and patentability opinions, both formal and informal. He negotiates and drafts software licenses and other technology transfer agreements. 

His approach is to know the business of clients and to find practical, business oriented solutions to opportunities and problems facing clients. He has helped take clients from inventive concept to as much as $100 million exits.

He has worked in a wide range of business methods and software involving e-commerce and targeted advertising, yield management, healthcare records and reimbursement management tools, complex financial instruments and measurement tools, presentation capture and publishing and credit and debit card processing and products. He also has a strong technical background and experience with inventions involving MEMs, microfluidics, carbon nanotube production and application in electron emitters and display devices, nano-scale electrical components and nano-scale signal processors and storage devices, clean technology including fuel cells, smart grid and solar power, semiconductor transistor, light emitting and laser device structures, optical systems, including cameras, auto focus systems, lens systems, optical fibers and fiber optic switches, optical disc structures, including CD, DVD/CD and DVD players; infrared systems; cellular telephony and other wireless devices (e.g.,IEEE 802.11, FDMA, CDMA, TDMA, PSK, QSK, etc.), planar antennas; and other electrical, electronic, electro-mechanical, applied physics and mechanical arts. 

He frequently lectures both in the U.S. and abroad on IP related topics, including providing insights to the examining corps of the USPTO.

While an examiner at the USPTO, he gained four years of experience in electrical/radiant energy practice areas, examining more than 200 U.S. patents in the areas of optical measuring and testing systems, photocell circuits, x-ray optics and other radiant energy systems, semiconductor device circuits and structures and circuit boards. He has drafted and/or prosecuted more than 2,200 patents and patent applications.

He also has experience in managing litigation, discovery, conducting legal research and drafting motions, interrogatories, document requests and requests for admissions, reviewing documents for production and claims of attorney-client privilege and work product immunity. He also has pro-bono courtroom experience.

Chad was a partner with Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, one of the oldest and largest law firms in the United States focusing exclusively on intellectual property, until its lawyers and other professionals joined Buchanan in 2005. He served as the team leader of the Nanotechnology Team and is co-founder of the Atlantic Nano Forum, now the Emerging Tech Forum.  He is also a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Responsibility.

Chad has been honored by his peers in the legal community and selected to the Virginia Super Lawyers^® list in the area of IP prosecution in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Additionally, he has been numerously selected to the Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers^® list. In 2008, Nanotechnology Law & Business named him on its Top Ten list of IP attorneys working in nanotechnology.