Education

University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas. J.D., May, 1993.

• The Order of Barristers
• Texas State Moot Court Competition, 1992 First Place, Best Brief
• National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, 1993 Quarterfinalist
• National Information Law Moot Court Competition, 1992 Octofinalist
• National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, 1992 Quarterfinalist
• John Black Moot Court Competition (UH Law Center), 1991 First Place

Rice University, Houston, Texas. MA (Physics), May, 1983.

• Thesis title: "Laser Annealing of Ni(001)".

Rice University, Houston, Texas. BA (Physics), May, 1979.

Admitted to Practice

• United States Supreme Court (1997)
• Texas Supreme Court (1993)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1997)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1994)
• United States District Court, Southern District of Texas (1993)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (1994)

Awards

• Faculty Award, University of Houston Law Center, 1996

Experience

O'Neil & McConnell (2002 - Present)

R. Perry McConnell, P.C. (September 1995 - December 2002)

The Woodlands, Texas

Founder & member of intellectual property, commercial law, and appellate law practice. intellectual property and commercial law practice including patent prosecution, patentability opinions, freedom to operate opinions, contracts, licensing agreements, trademark application prosecution, nondisclosure agreements, and related commercial activity law. Appellate practice including direct appeals and extraordinary motions in state and federal court, and dispositive and appeal-related motion practice in trial courts, both for individual and business clients and on a supporting basis for trial-oriented law firms.

University of Houston Law Center

Houston, Texas

• Associate Director for Appellate Programs, Trial Advocacy Institute
• Associate Director for Interscholastic Moot Court Competitions
  • August 1996 - Spring 1998
  • Volunteer coach, 1994 - Spring 1996
• Coach for interscholastic moot court teams, including:
  • Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court Competition 1997 - 1998
    • 1997, National Champions
    • National: 1st Place, Best Brief & Best Oralists
    • Regional: 1st Place, 2d Place, Best Brief & Best Oralists
  • National Environmental Moot Court Competition 1994 - 1998
    • 1995, Quarterfinalists
    • 1996, National Champions
    • 1997, Quarterfinalists, Best Brief
    • 1998, Quarterfinalists
  • National Health Law Moot Court Competition 1996 - 1998
    • 1996, Quarterfinalists
    • 1997, 2nd Place, Best Oralist
  • Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 1996 - 1998
    • 1998, Regional Semifinalists
  • Giles S. Rich Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition 1997 - 1998
    • 1998, Regional Semifinalists

University of Houston Law Center

Houston, Texas

• Adjunct Professor (August 1995 - 2000)
  Adjunct Professor for courses taught at the University of Houston Law Center, including Texas pretrial, trial, and appellate procedure.

Rosenblatt & Redano, P. C.

Houston, Texas

• Attorney (November 1993 - August 1995)
• Law Clerk (June 1991 - November 1993)

Attorney for law firm specializing in Intellectual Property (patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret) law. Civil litigation (approximately 55%), civil appeals (30%), and patent prosecution (15%). Civil litigation work was approximately 50% intellectual property and 50% general civil law, including contract law and related torts. Patent prosecution included downhole tools, mechanical, and electrical systems. Responsible for operations of and improvements to law firm's computer system, network, and CD-ROM law library.

Accu Tech International, Inc.

Houston, Texas

• Contract Programmer (July 1990 - August 1990)

Designed, programmed, and tested ACCELL and C applications for a UNIX based order entry and order accounting database system, including inter-system data transmittal, conflict resolution, and error processing.

Systems Application Engineering, Inc.

Houston, Texas

• Staff Consultant (November 1989 - June 1990)
• Systems Analyst (September 1987 - November 1989)

Performed applications engineering, programming, and support for a major oil company for their Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, including well, injection, and test control and reporting. Applications were written in C, SQL, and ACCELL, driving a relational database and running under UNIX on AT&T 3B2 series computers. Other projects included designing, coding, and testing communications software in C for file transfer between IBM PC and hand-held computers with automatic transmission errors detection, transfer retries, and error logging. Designed, coded and integrated interface software allowing full-range database control with the PC/Hand-held integrated system.

Self-Employed

Austin, Texas

• Software and Electronics Consultant, April 1986 - August 1987

Developed a relational database management system for sales representatives, programmed for IBM PC systems in Pascal. Provided support and programming for applications programs in C for PC's and MicroVAX systems.

McDonnell-Douglas Microelectronics Center HB

Huntington Beach, California

• Process Engineer (June 1985 - March 1986)

Program, database, and graphics system maintenance and enhancements for semiconductor design and process applications. Design and programming of test methods for automated wafer-level testing of discreet devices on GaAs (gallium arsenide) production wafers. Applications were written in HP-BASIC for an HP-9000 and Hewlett-Packard automated test equipment.

Rockwell International, Semiconductor Products Division

Newport Beach, California

• Process Engineer (May 1984 - May 1985)

Process evaluation and characterization by post-fabrication electronic and visual analysis of semiconductor devices. Development (design and programming) of a doping profile generator using Capacitance v. Voltage measurement technique. Tasks included generation of I/O Driver software on an HP-1000, hardware evaluation, and modifying automated testers.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Pasadena, California

• Reliability Engineer (May 1983 - May 1984)

Member of the Engineering/Science Working Group and the project science staff for the Air Force's IMPS (Interactions Measurement Payload for Shuttle) project. Development of improved mathematical models of the ionosphere, written in Pascal and FORTRAN under VMS.

Publications & Presentations

• R. Perry McConnell, Oral Argument, CLE Presentation at TDCAA (Texas District and County Attorneys' Association) Appellate Seminar, January 2000.
• R. Perry McConnell, Oral Argument, in State's Appellate Manual (Alan Curry et al., eds. 1999)
• R. P. McConnell, K. D. Jamison, F. B. Dunning, and G. K. Walters, "Laser Annealing of Ni(001)", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 1, 4, Oct.-Dec. 1983.

Security Clearances

Secret level security clearances held during tenure at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at McDonnell-Douglas Microelectronics Center-HB.

Computer Languages & Scripts

C++, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, PL/1, APL, BASIC, HTML, ASP

Community Activities

• Vice President & Scorekeeper, Timberline Youth Soccer Association (2000 - 2001)
• President, Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 302, Montgomery County, Texas (2003 - 2004)
• AOPA Airport Support Network Volunteer (2005 - 2006)
• Member, Airport Rules Revision Committee, Lone Star Executive Airport (2007)
• Founding Member & Director, Conroe Pilots & Airport Tenants Association, Inc. (2007)