practice areas
honors + affiliations
Recipient, Exceptional Merit Award, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Scientific and Educational Exhibit Awards (2004)
Alumni Associate, Hanszen College, Rice University
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Member, Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
bar admissions
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas
- Houston
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1000 Louisiana St., Suite 4000
Houston, TX 77002-5006
Phone: 713.890.5746
Fax: 713.890.5001
Rudy Fink is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Intellectual Property and Litigation Practices. Mr. Fink concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation. His patent litigation work is primarily focused on matters involving computer software, Internet technologies, and wireless communications. He has a well-developed background in identifying patents to assert, identifying prior art, industry standards, and source code review.
Prior to earning his law degree, Mr. Fink worked for several years in intellectual property litigation as a Technical Advisor in patent suits involving computer security, Internet protocols, web browsers, catheters, software compilers, flash and DRAM memory, and programming languages.
Prior to law, Mr. Fink spent more than 10 years working in software engineering, primarily focused in academic and corporate research. He also consulted in the retail, finance, and petroleum sectors. Mr. Fink has worked on a wide array of projects, including wireless (cellular, GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11) sensor networks, laser microscope systems, embedded systems, 3D medical simulators, real-time financial systems, video-on-demand systems, device drivers, imaging, cluster computing, virtual worlds, and compilers. His programming language history includes C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
Mr. Fink earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 2012. He earned his B.S. in computer science, with a focus in networking and security, from Rice University in 2002.
Mr. Fink is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas.
education
- University of Houston Law Center, 2012, J.D.
- Rice University, 2002, B.S.
