Education
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Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1977
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Michigan State University, Ph.D., 1967
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University of Detroit, B.S., magna cum laude, 1962
Bar Admissions
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Colorado
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Idaho
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Indiana
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Massachusetts
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th, 10th and Federal Circuits
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Colorado District Court
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Indiana Southern District Court
Awards and Honors
- Recognized, Colorado Super Lawyers, 2007
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Recognized, Colorado Super Lawyers (inaugural list)
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American Jurisprudence Award for Torts
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National Science Foundation Fellowship
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Detroit Edison Scholarship
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Technology, business and litigation throughout the world have been Dr. Forest’s life for over 30 years. He uses vast experience in law, an understanding of people and a deep knowledge of technology to effectively and efficiently protect business assets. Having run his own businesses and having been an angel investor in a half-dozen startups, he understands that a product has to be profitable, or all the law and technology in the world won’t save it. In litigation, he knows how to win without drowning the client in legal fees. He has litigated and written patent applications in semiconductors, medical devices, optics, oil and gas exploration, software, manufacturing processes, diagnostic devices, biological processes, instrumentation and many other areas.
His Ph.D. in physics has taught him to develop deep analysis of technology that results in broad claims, and given him expertise in mechanics, thermodynamics, solid state and electricity and magnetism that is unusual in IP attorneys today. He is an internationally-recognized expert in wind power and integrated circuits. Dr. Forest believes that you use what life gives you. While physics was his first love, life has drawn him to law and given him friends and business connections throughout the world. He uses all of these to help businesses young and old grow and thrive.
Dr. Forest has experience inside and outside large corporations, such as Black and Decker, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Panasonic and Halliburton, and as counsel to start-ups, such as Sundew Technology, MicroPhage Incorporated and Wind-To-Power Systems. Before becoming an attorney, he worked in theoretical physics at Michigan State University, built an electro-optics laboratory at the University of Idaho and taught physics for nonscientists and graduate-level students. His first technical position was as an aerospace engineer for NASA. His life is about bringing new ideas into commercial reality.
His ability to capture a technology in broad claims, his understanding of patent and trademark offices worldwide and a record of success on appeal translate into particularly effective patent and trademark prosecution strategies.
Representative Matters
- Roche v. Polymer Technology Systems, Inc., US District Court, Indiana, 2010; Confidential Arbitration, German Institute for Arbitration (DIS), 2009; Confidential Arbitration, AAA, 2008; Playhard, Inc. and Nite Ize, Inc. v. Guru Toys, US District Court, Colorado, 2007; Savvier, LP v. Sports and Leisure Technology Corp., Federal Circuit Court of Appeals 2005; Particle Measuring Systems, Inc v. Rion Co. Ltd. et al., U.S. District Court, Colorado, 2001; Baby’s Benefit, Inc., v. SpaceLabs, Inc., U.S. District Court, Colorado, 1995; Medtronic, Inc. v. Daig, Inc., U.S. District Court, Minnesota, 1983; Dynamet Technology, Inc. V. Dynamet Incorporated, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, 1977
- Co-wrote Amicus brief to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in In Re: Beauregard, in which the Federal Circuit held that software was patentable. Written, prosecuted and obtained more than 500 U.S. patents, and filed and obtained more than 200 U.S. trademark registrations. He has filed and obtained thousands of patents and trademarks for clients in more than 40 foreign countries.
- Performed the technical analysis in wind power litigation that opened up the wind power market in the United States.
Professional Affiliations:
- Colorado Bar Association; Patent, Trademark Copyright Section
- American Bar Association; Intellectual Property Law Section
- American Physical Society
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