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Attorney Profile: Doug Weller
During the 25 years Doug Weller has been a patent
attorney in Silicon
Valley, California, he has obtained many hundreds of
patents for preeminent technology companies, start-ups and individual
inventors.
From 1983 to 1987, Doug worked for Hewlett-Packard
Company as an intellectual property attorney handing a broad spectrum
of intellectual property issues
for several divisions.
In 1987, Doug founded his own
law firm,
specializing in patent procurement for the technology being developed
in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Formal Education
- University of California at Davis
BS Electrical Engineering/Computer Science (1979)
- University of California at Berkeley School of Law
JD (1983)
- Western Seminary
M.Div (1990)
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Doug delights to spend time with his wife Frances and
son Weston. He serves on the Board of Elders for his local
church and on the School Board for The King's Academy in
Sunnyvale, CA. Also, throughout life Doug
has enjoyed participating in sports of all kinds (he was briefly
an intercollegiate wrestler
until a career ending knee injury). Currently, he most regularly
participates in golf and
table tennis. Doug also enjoys playing the
guitar, trumpet and harmonica (chromatic and blues harp). He is
currently serving as president of San
Jose Toastmasters.
From his local public library, Doug checked out a
popular science book written by Paul Davies, entitled About Time.
Although intrigued by Paul Davies'
description of the time singularity at the event horizon of a black
hole, Doug recognized an inconsistency in the explanation of what
happens
to an object that approaches a black hole. Chasing down the
inconsistency led Doug to the
original papers written by Albert Einstein on special and general
relativity, a paper by Hermann Minkowski on space and time, and the
paper Karl Schwarzschild wrote on the Schwarzschild metric, which
purportedly provides the theoretical basis for black holes. Doug has
written a series of papers on relativity that support
Einstein's view
that black holes are incompatible
with the theory of general relativity. Links to some of these papers
are listed
below.
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