RJ Zayed

Intellectual Property

RJ’s experience includes counseling, asserting, and defending patents and trade secret claims for clients such as Canon, Micron Technology, AT&T, Honeywell, Valspar, Mosaic, Mate Precision, St. Jude Medical, AGA Medical, Tyco Healthcare, 3M, Endress & Hauser, ANGUS Chemical, Alcatel, U.S. Cellular, Aetna, Levapan S.A., Menard’s, Fiber Composites, Signal Technology, ASICS, Boston Scientific, Spectralytics and OmniActive Health Technologies.

RJ has handled matters involving wireless communications and protocols, electronic consumer products, electronic control systems, digital Coriolis flowmeters, encryption devices, personal identification devices, 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 electrical, 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 used in commercial buildings and complexes. He received the 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 extensive experience includes 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 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 many multi-defendant fraud conspiracies, conspiracies to defraud the United States, national and multi-national drug trafficking and firearm conspiracies, gang-related crimes, economic espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets cases and cases involving trafficking in counterfeit goods and copyright and trademark infringement.

Since returning to private practice, RJ has helped clients in responding to government enforcement actions and conducting internal investigations involving allegations of bribery and corrupt practices (including FCPA and public corruption matters); theft of trade secrets and economic espionage; environmental violations; fraud (federal grants and funding, bank, computer, healthcare, mail, securities, tax and wire); false statements, false claims under the FCA; adulterated and misbranded drugs and medical devices; and off-label promotion.