California State University (BA, Biological Sciences 1974)
California State University (MA, Chemistry 1978)
Ohio State University (Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry 1983)
Washburn University (J.D. 1999)
Franklin Pierce Law Center (Masters in Intellectual Property 2000)
Kansas State University (B.S.E.E. 2006)

Kansas, California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

American Chemical Society

Dr. Thompson’s dissertation research interest has been to develop economic solar cells from the semiconductor materials, such as, GaAs, TiO₂, ZnO, CdS, CdSe, Si, MoX₂, and WX₂ (X=S, Se, Te). At Ohio State, Dr. Thompson studied oxidative processes experienced at photoanode/electrolyte interfaces and developed multi-dimensional minimization software techniques to extract energetic information (e.g., E_gap, and E_flatband) and corrosion process information occurring at these interfaces via complex plane impedance analysis and Auger spectroscopy.

Dr. Thompson’s other non-law interests have been to apply his analytical skills to pharmaceutical, environmental, radioactive, and chemical warfare analysis. Dr. Thompson has been a research fellow at the Energy Research Institute in Vancouver, Canada, as well as, a staff fellow at the Addiction Research Center (ARC) in Baltimore, MD for the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). Because of this remarkably broad technical background, Dr. Thompson likes to think of himself as specializing on being a generalist.

Prior to joining Ladas and Parry, LLP, Dr. Thompson was an associate attorney at a high tech law firm (D’Alessandro and Richie at San Jose, CA) and at a biotech law firm (Rae-Venter Law Group at Palo Alto, CA). In private practice, Dr. Thompson has written and prosecuted about 300 patent applications in the fields of simple mechanical devices, biotechnology, chemistry, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing techniques, and software.