Lance C. Venable, Esq.

Lance was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his Electrical Engineering degree from the Ira Fulton College of Engineering at Arizona State University and Juris Doctorate degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

In 1996, he became one of the founding shareholders at his previous firm of Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney (now Venjuris Law). In October 2014, after 19 years with the firm, he left to start a new practice. Lance is a seasoned lawyer who practices in all of the major areas of intellectual property law. He has prosecuted hundreds of patent, trademark, and copyright matters before the U.S. Patent Trademark Office. As an experienced litigator, Lance has represented well over a hundred intellectual property matters in U.S. District and Appellate courts throughout the U.S. In one of his most high-profile cases, he was lead counsel for MDY Industries LLC before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals where he obtained a favorable reversal in a landmark copyright decision involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against Blizzard Entertainment, which involved the popular computer game World of Warcraft [629 F.3d 938 (2010)].

Before attending law school, he worked as a design and applications engineer in the Semiconductor Product Sector of Motorola, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and at US West Communications (now Century Link) in Phoenix, Arizona. While working as an engineer at Motorola, he also worked in their corporate patent department.

Lance is an avid cyclist and die hard fan of both Chicago and his alma mater ASU’s sports teams.

Areas of Practice

100% Intellectual Property Law

Litigation Percentage

70% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Certified Legal Specialties

Patent Law, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 1997

Bar Admissions

Supreme Court of Arizona, 1996
U.S. District Court District of Arizona, 1996
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2004
U.S. District Court District of Colorado, 2000
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1997
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2009
U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2002
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 2003

Education

Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona
- Juris Doctorate – 1995
Arizona State University, Fulton College of Engineering, Tempe, Arizona
- B.S. Electrical Engineering – 1991

Representative Cases as Lead Counsel

MDY Industries LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., 629 F.3d 928 (9th Cir. 2010)
- Obtained historic reversal of district court’s ruling that a breach of a contract term in a software license does not create a copyright infringement unless the term pertains to one of the five exclusive rights under 17 U.S.C. § 106.
Ranch Realty, Inc. v. DC Ranch Realty, LLC et al., 514 F.Supp.2d 983 (D. Ariz. 2007)
- Established three-year statute of limitations for federal trademark cases in Arizona.

Representative Clients

Camgian Microsystems, Inc.
Mueller Water International
ProDox, LLC
SpyFu, Inc.
Aqua Lung America
Thermo Manufacturing Systems, LLC
Wayward Nerd, LLC
Arizona Federal Credit Union
Coyote’s Ice, LLC
Magellan Healthcare
Pucuda, Inc.
MDY Industries LLC
Angel MedFlight, Inc.
Ironridge, Inc.
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Main Street America Insurance Group
SpeakerCraft, Inc.
Proficient Audio
Trippe Manufacturing
Duratain, Inc.
Texas Plains Federal Credit Union
Adelante Healthcare of Arizona
Seton Catholic Preparatory
NX Level, Inc.
State Bar of Arizona
Ranch Realty of Arizona
Triplex Training of Chandler, Arizona

Classes/Seminars

Current Issues in Patent Law, Dunes CLE, 2006
Ebay v. MERC Exchange and Its Impact on the Market Place

Professional Associations and Memberships

AIPLA, 1996 – Present
State Bar of Arizona – IP Section, 1996 – Present

Past Employment Positions

Lewis & Roca, 1993 – 1994
Rosenbaum & Associates, 1993 – 1995

Pro Bono Activities

Maricopa County Judge Pro Tempore, 2005 – Present

Languages

English
Spanish – Semi-fluent

(602) 730-1422

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