Software Patent Interviews

The Article


The interviews contained on this page were conducted for:

Ronald J. Mann, Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?, 83 Texas L. Rev. 961 (2005).

To view the introduction of the article, click here.

The full text of the article is available on the Westlaw and Lexis online services.  PDF copies are available at http://www.heinonline.org/

For more about the author, visit his website here.

The Interviews

The interviews follow arranged alphabetically by interviewee's last name.  For interviews with multiple parties, the document is arranged by the last name of the first interviewee.

The documents are PDF files.  For a ZIP file of all of the interviews in PDF form, click here (5mb).

Michael Abbott, Composite Software, March, 21, 2003

Rob Adams, Austin Ventures, November 5, 2002

Rob Beauchamp, Journee, April 3, 2003

Tom Bishop, Vieo, January 28, 2003

Marc Cadieux, Silicon Valley Bank, February 6, 2003

Edward A. Cavazos, Andrews & Kurth, September 17, 2002

Timothy Costello, Buildershomesite, November 26, 2002

Tim Cranton, Anne Kelley, Microsoft, February 4, 2003

Dan Crouse, Microsoft Corp., February 4, 2003

Michael D'Eath, Waveset, October 24, 2002

John Denniston, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,

February 7, 2003

Sam Dinkin, Alkera, Inc., March 24, 2003

York Eggleston, Creative Technologies, April 23, 2003

Mark Ehrlich, IBM Patent Attorney, February 16, 2005

Andy Enroth, Senior Credit Officer,

Silicon Valley Bank, January 9, 2003

Rod Favaron, President & CEO,

Lombardi Software, February 27, 2003

Jim Gauer, Palomar Ventures, March 10, 2003

Kinloch Gill, Andrews & Kurth, September 17, 2002

Alan Harding, CFO, Datacert.com, October 24, 2002

Thomas A. Harlan, CEO, Emergent Technologies,

December 4, 2003

Susan Hill and Sharon Lamb, Motorola, November 19, 2003

Andrew J. Hirsch, John Mao & Kathleen D. Rothman

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, February 5, 2003

Jeff Hodge, CTO, Datacert.com, November 4, 2002

Admiral Bobby Inman, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, September 26, 2002

Robert E. Izmirian, Buchalter Nemer

Fields & Younger, February 5, 2003

William Jackson, Brown University Research

Foundation, March 21, 2003

Eric Jones, CenterPoint Ventures, November 25, 2002

David A. Jones, Silicon Valley Bank, February 6, 2003

David Kaefer, Director, Corporate Initiatives,

Microsoft Corp., February 4, 2003

Ken Kalinoski, CTO, Forgent, February 19, 2003

Anne Kelley, Microsoft Corp., February 27, 2003

Mark Kielb, InterLink, June 18, 2002

Tim Klitch, Comerica, November 15, 2002

Jeffrey M. Koontz, Senior Attorney, Consumer Group,

Microsoft Corp., February 4, 2003

David Kupetz, Sulmeyer-Kulpetz, April 22, 2004

Annmarie Levins, Associate General Counsel, Worldwide, Microsoft Corp., February 25, 2003

Hambleton Lord, Launch Pad, April 15, 2003

Pamela J. Martinson, Cooley Godward LLP, February 5, 2003

Greg Miller, Homesite, October 23, 2002

Dennis Murphree, Murphree Ventures, November 4, 2002

Steve Nichols, October 21, 2002

Steve O'Connor, Nanostream, April 11, 2003

Brian O'Higgins, CTO, & Glenn Langford, Director of Strategic Development, Entrust, Inc., November 13, 2003

David Oles, Pixel Magic, February 25, 2004

Jerry Rightmer, 360 Commerce, December 18, 2002

Thomas C. Rubin, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Corp., February 4, 2003

Manny Schecter, IBM, March 14, 2003

Dave Sikora, Pervasive Software, January 16, 2003

Brian R. Smith, Convergent Investors, December 4, 2003

Tom Stephenson, December 4, 2002

Sanjay Subhedar, General Partner, Storm Ventures, April 4, 2003

Mark Tanoury, Partner, Cooley Godward, LLP,

November 3, 2003

Shawn P. Thomas, CEO, Bluecurrent, Inc., November 5, 2003

Craig M. Tighe, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP,

February 6, 2003

Cory Van Arsdale, General Manager, MSN Business,

Microsoft Corp., February 4, 2003

Hank Weghorst, CEO, Troux Technologies, March 21, 2003

 Derek Witte, General Counsel, Silicon Valley Bank,

February 6, 2003

Philip Wright, Comerica, December 3, 2002