Education
- J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Law, University of Michigan Law School. Project: (1) Trespass to Chattels: Taming the Wild West of Cyberspce; (2) Rearming ARM: Filing a Lacuna in Patent Law through Direct Patenting of Instruction Set Architectures
- B.S.E.E. , Electrical Engineering, Presidential Scholar, National Merit Scholar, Brigham Young University. Project: Honors
Biography
Ryan Brown blends interests in law and engineering with sincere philomathy as he teaches engineers to protect and pitch their best ideas, and to write and speak better.
Ryan is a patent attorney with fourteen years of experience in the Eastern District of Texas. Through an award-winning patent practice, he continues to defend the ideas of technological innovators today.
Licenses, Memberships, Awards
Super Lawyers' Rising Star (2017)
(Mar. 2017, Thompson-Reuters--awarded to the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40, based on metrics of professional achievement and peer [i.e., attorney] recognition.)
Super Lawyers' Rising Star (2016)
(Mar. 2016, Thompson-Reuters--awarded to the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40, based on metrics of professional achievement and peer [i.e., attorney] recognition.)
Super Laywers' Rising Star (2015)
(Mar. 2015, Thompson-Reuters--awarded to the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40, based on metrics of professional achievement and peer [i.e., attorney] recognition.)
Super Laywers' Rising Star (2014)
(Mar. 2014, Thompson-Reuters--awarded to the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40, based on metrics of professional achievement and peer [i.e., attorney] recognition.)
The 2017 Outstanding ECE Service Award
(Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Utah--awarded for teaching excellence.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring 2022 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2021 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2020 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2019 term course 2, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2019 term course 1, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring 2019 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2018 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring 2018 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring 2017 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Fall 2016 term, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring term 2016, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Top 15 College of Engineering Teaching Award
(Spring term 2015, College of Engineering, University of Utah--awarded to top 15% of lecturers based on course evaluations.)
Texas State Bar
(Attorney license No. 24059502.)
Utah State Bar
(Attorney license No. 16264.)
E.D. Tex.
(The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.)
Magna Cum Laude
(The University of Michigan Law School--awarded to the top few percent of Juris Doctoral candidates, based on cumulative GPA.)
Law Review
(The University of Michigan Law School--awarded to top few percent of Juris Doctoral candidates, based on (1) a legal writing competition and (2) cumulative GPA after the first year of law school.)
Book Award, Management of Intellectual Property
(The University of Michigan Law School--awarded to the top score in a large lecture class.)
Book Award, Jewish Law
(The University of Michigan Law School--awarded to the top score in a large lecture class.)
Presidential Scholar
(Brigham Young University--awarded to top 12 male and top 12 female incoming freshman based on a week-long, scholastic competition between matriculating National Merit Scholars.)
National Merit Scholar
(National Merit Scholarship Corporation--awarded to top fraction of one percent of college entrance exam takers, based on entrance exam scores, cumulative GPA, and scholastic recommendations.)