Litigation Experience

Rod has twenty-four years of commercial litigation experience, including extensive first-chair jury trial experience in intellectual property, antitrust and trade regulation cases. He has been admitted to appear in cases from California to New York and from Minnesota to Florida, and has handled appeals in the Second, Fourth, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh and Federal Circuit courts, as well as the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. His reported cases include the following:

  • Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Pataki, 320 F.3d 200 (2nd Cir. 2003)

  • Kidd v. Bass Hotels & Resorts, Inc., 136 F.Supp.2d 965 (E.D.Ark. 2000)

  • Resorts of Pinehurst, Inc. v. Pinehurst National Corp., 148 F.3d 417, 47 U.S.P.Q.2d 1465 (4th Cir. 1998)

  • Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Judge, 63 F.Supp. 437 (M.D.Pa. 1997)

  • Sara Lee Corp. v. Kayser-Roth Corp., 81 F.3d 455 (4th Cir. 1996)

  • Pinkham v. Camex, Inc., 84 F.3d 292 (8th Cir. 1996)

  • Riley v. Murdock, 83 F.3d 415 (Table, Text in WESTLAW, 1996 WL 209613) (4th Cir. 1996)

  • Martin Marietta Corp. v. Wake Stone Corp., 339 N.C. 602, 453 S.E.2d 146 (1995)

  • Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, N.A. v. Willis, 118 N.C.App. 144, 454 S.E.2d 293 (N.C.App. 1995)

  • Sunkist Soft Drinks, Inc. v. Sunkist Growers, Inc., 10 F.3d 753 (11th Cir. 1993)

  • Alphatronix, Inc. v. Pinnacle Micro, Inc., 814 F.Supp. 455 (M.D.N.C. 1993)

  • Routh v. Snap-On Tools Corp., 108 N.C.App. 268, 423 S.E.2d 791 (N.C.App. 1992)

  • Mirafi, Inc. v. Murphy, 928 F.2d 410 (Fed. Cir. 1991), aff'd after remand, 988 F.2d 129 (1993)

  • Kimsey v. Snap-On Tools Corp., 752 F.Supp. 693 (W.D.N.C. 1990)

  • Mark Seitman & Associates, Inc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 837 F.2d 1527(11th Cir. 1988)

  • UAI Technology, Inc. v. Valutech, Inc., 122 F.R.D. 188 (M.D.N.C. 1988)

  • The In Porters, S.A. v. Hanes Printables, Inc., 663 F.Supp. 494 (M.D.N.C. 1987)

  • O'Leary v. Purcell Co., Inc., 108 F.R.D. 641 (M.D.N.C. 1985)

  • Town of West Jefferson v. Edwards, 74 N.C.App. 377, 329 S.E.2d 407 (N.C.App. 1985)

  • Brubaker v. Board of County Com'rs, El Paso County, 652 P.2d 1050 (Colo. 1982)

  • Jones v. Cryogenic Energy Co., 531 F.Supp. 571 (D.Colo. 1982).

Consumer surveys are an important aspect of trademark and advertising litigation in which Rod's background is particularly deep. He has participated in the design and litigation of scores of surveys, including those at issue in many of the cases listed above. Click here to learn more.

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