RJ Zayed

Intellectual Property

RJ’s Intellectual Property experience includes counseling and asserting and defending patents and trade secret claims for clients such as Canon, St. Jude Medical, AGA Medical, Tyco Healthcare, 3M, Imation, Endress & Hauser, Honeywell, ANGUS Chemical, Alcatel, U.S. Cellular, Aetna, Levapan S.A., Menard’s, Telluride Asset Management, Fiber Composites, Signal Technology, Valspar, Micron Technology, ASICS, Boston Scientific, Guidant, OmniActive Health Technologies, Veritec, and Spectralytics.

RJ has handled matters involving wireless devices, electronic consumer products, electronic control systems, digital Coriolis flowmeters, encryption, identity, and memory devices, digital and analog circuits, electrical transmission systems, telecommunication devices and systems, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, systematic investment models, nutraceuticals and nutritional supplements, multi-modal polymers, adhesives, composites, and chemical and mechanical processes.

Prior to law school, RJ worked seven years as a hardware and software design engineer for Honeywell, Inc., designing microprocessor based instrumentation and digital and analog circuitry for environmental control systems for commercial buildings and complexes. He was awarded the 1983 Honeywell Technical Excellence Award for his design of software and hardware controlled memory device and circuit board testing system.

Government Enforcement and Corporate Investigations

RJ’s Government Enforcement and Corporate investigations experience includes extensive experience in investigating, prosecuting, and defending complex white collar cases. While at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, RJ led the investigation and prosecution of hundreds of criminal cases, including cases involving bribery and corruption; bank, computer, healthcare, mail, securities, tax and wire fraud; false statements and claims; economic espionage; and environmental offenses (including the then two largest criminal environmental cases in Minnesota history). He also prosecuted numerous cases involving multi-defendant fraud conspiracies, conspiracies to defraud the United States, narcotics and violent crimes, organized crime, trafficking in counterfeit goods, and extradition of fugitive offenders.

Since returning to private practice, RJ has defended government enforcement actions and led internal investigations involving allegations of bribery and corrupt practices (including alleged FCPA violations and corrupt practices in Brazil, China, France, Panama, Qatar, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Kingdom), environmental violations, fraud (bank, computer, healthcare, mail, securities, tax and wire), false claims and statements, adulterated and misbranded drugs and medical devices, off-label promotion, and economic espionage.