Bryan W. Butler Bryan W. Butler approaches the issue of damages for patent infringement from a unique vantage point based on his wide range of experience in law and business. Mr. Butler's legal experience includes both in-house practice as well as law firm litigation. A patent attorney with extensive business experience, he has served as in-house Counsel for IBM Corp.'s Networking business, and as Director, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Licensing for 3Com Corporation Business Connectivity Co. The unique analytical approach to patent infringement damages that is the basis of this treatise was developed as a result of his experiences in patent litigation and licensing.

In private practice Mr. Butler also specialized in intellectual property litigation at Pennie & Edmonds LLC. He began his legal career as a damages fact witness in a patent infringement litigation. Before attending law school he was with Hewlett Packard Co. in various product planning and product development positions and with General Electric Corp. as a Strategic Planning Consultant. Mr. Butler received a J.

D. from the University of San Diego, a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Swarthmore College. Mr. Butler is the author of _x001C_Maximizing the Impact of Visual Evidence_x001D_ in Patent Litigation (PLI 1992) and _x001C_State Actions to Limit Product Liability Awards_x001D_ 4 Prod. Liab. L.

J. 129 (May 1993).