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Herbert R. (“Dick”) Schulze

A native of San Francisco, Dick is a graduate of MIT in electrical engineering and the University of Chicago law school. He is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Howard Turrentine in San Diego, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego before specializing in intellectual property matters. For 20 years he was with Hewlett-Packard Co. and its successor Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property, supervising a staff of company attorneys and legal assistants in California, Colorado, Singapore, and Germany. Following his retirement from Agilent in 2007, he became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno and Special Counsel to Evergreen Valley Law Group of Bangalore, India. In May 2011 he left Holland & Hart for a brief stint as IP Counsel with HP, returning to Holland & Hart in the fall of 2013. Dick has two grown children and five grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar California ski resort or cruising the twistiest roads of America on his Triumph Rocket 3.