Family of Man Shot by Fairfax County Police Fights for Information

“The family of a Fairfax County man who was shot and killed by police during a stand-off last year is suing the officers and police chief involved.
Fairfax County Police responded to 46-year-old John Geer’s Springfield home in August 2013 for a domestic disturbance. The mother of Geer’s two children told police there were weapons in the home.”
-NBC Washington

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http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/John-Geer-Fairfax-County-Police-Shooting-286409361.html

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DiMuroGinsberg Forms New DG Key IP Group, Welcomes Attorneys Cecil E. Key, Jay P. Kesan and Teresa M. Summers

ALEXANDRIA, VA.  – DiMuroGinsberg, PC is pleased to announce the formation of its new intellectual property practice group, the DG Key IP Group, with the addition of attorneys Cecil E. Key, Jay P. Kesan and Teresa M. Summers to the firm.

“We’ve formed this group to enhance the services we offer to clients in protecting and leveraging their IP assets, which is key to success in today’s business environment,” said Bernard J. DiMuro, DiMuroGinsberg’s managing partner. “We also welcome Cecil, Jay and Teresa who bring experience and technical knowledge to enhance and grow the firm’s existing IP practice.”

The DG Key IP Group combines essential elements of the firm’s litigation and intellectual property practices to help clients minimize their risks associated with litigation while also providing transactional representation. The DG Key IP Group delivers focused services in the areas of IP transactions, patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights.

Attorneys in the DiMuroGinsberg IP Group have been recognized as leaders in intellectual property law, having represented clients as litigation and appellate counsel in federal district courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and various U.S. Courts of Appeal. In addition, the firm’s attorneys have served on the boards of entrepreneurial startups, working as scientists and engineers and advised some of the world’s most successful technology companies.

The firm’s IP attorneys also have testified before Congress and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) about developing IP issues; lectured at top universities; and been widely published in national newspapers, legal periodicals and peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Key focuses his practice on IP litigation, including patents, trademarks and copyrights, in which he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants before numerous federal district and appellate courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fourth and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the USPTO. He also concentrates on the acquisition and deployment of funding for development of his clients’ intellectual property assets. Key has represented clients in matters involving a diverse range of technologies, including software, semiconductors, broadband and networking, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and wind turbines. He has been involved in many seminal IP cases, including one before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the scope of protection for product trade dress, and has served as lead counsel for clients that are both asserting and defending against IP claims.

Key earned his law degree (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds an M.M. from Southern Methodist University and a B.M. (cum laude) from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Kesan is a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on helping clients protect, assert, and monetize their IP assets. Kesan has worked with clients across a wide variety of industries, and has represented clients before federal district courts and agencies, including the USPTO. He is also called upon to serve as a special advisor to both private and public sector entities regarding matters of IP law, and has served as an expert in IP disputes on numerous occasions. He is a professor and Workman Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Kesan also previously held research or scientist positions with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. In addition, he has served as a technical or legal consultant with various patent law publications and as a technical expert in microelectronics, microwave/millimeter wave circuits and devices, optoelectronics, communications and software. Kesan also has served on the boards of directors or advisors for numerous technology start-ups.

Kesan earned his law degree (summa cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Summers counsels and represents clients in patent, commercial and Hatch-Waxman matters and litigation and in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her practice spans many industries, including biomedical sciences, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and computer hardware and software. Summers has extensive experience in ITC Section 337 litigation and Federal Circuit appeals, having litigated nearly a dozen actions at the ITC that resulted in exclusion orders or successful settlement. Summers is active in Federal Circuit activities, including assisting the judges in recent Joint Judicial Conferences in Japan, China and Korea on U.S. IP rights. She is the chairperson of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Patent Reform Committee and created the Tokyo IP American Inn of Court, the first Inn of Court based in Japan and the first American Inn of Court based outside of the United States

Summers earned her law degree (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center and also holds a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego.

About DiMuroGinsberg, PC

DiMuroGinsberg is a litigation and business law firm operating in Alexandria, Va., since 1990. The firm practices in the areas of corporate and commercial law, business torts, business disputes, RICO, criminal law, employment law, professional liability and ethics, intellectual property and patent cases . The firm also has a strong complementary corporate law and business law practice. For more information, visit https://dimuronew.wpengine.com.

Feds say Fairfax County slowed federal investigation of John Geer police shooting

ON AUG. 29, 2013, a Fairfax County police officer shot an unarmed Springfield resident John Geer in the doorway of his home with his hands in the air. In the hour before officers finally entered Geer’s home to check on him, he bled to death.

Earlier, Mr. Geer’s domestic partner of 24 years and the mother of their two daughters had called police after Mr. Geer became upset over her saying she was going to end their relationship and he began throwing her possessions out into the street.

The police responded, remaining outside his house for forty-five minutes while pointing their weapons at the unarmed Mr. Geer as he stood in his doorway with his hands up in the air. Then, for no known reason, while Mr. Geer continued to have his hands up in the air, an unidentified Fairfax County police officer shot Mr. Geer in the chest. Mr. Geer died from the single bullet wound.

Since August 29, 2013 the Fairfax County Police Department have refused to provide any information to Mr. Geer’s family regarding who shot him, why he was shot, why medical treatment was not provided or any other information pertaining to the shooting. Now, 15 months later, they still have refused to provide such information to the family, the public or the press because they claim there is an ongoing federal criminal investigation.

Michael Lieberman of our firm is representing the family and the Estate and on Tuesday, Sept. 2, we filed a civil suit in Fairfax Circuit Court seeking $12 million in damages from Fairfax County Police. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges, among other things, gross negligence and failure to supervise the patrol officer who killed Mr. Geer.

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2014/dec/03/geer-lawyer-expects-hearing-new-year-springfield-s/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-a-year-with-no-answers-in-fairfax-police-slaying-of-john-geer-family-sues/2014/09/02/54da1892-31e6-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/09/04/the-geer-slaying-where-are-fairfaxs-elected-officials/

http://www.reston-connection.com/news/2014/sep/03/12-million-suit-against-fairfax-county-police/