He is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and has testified as an expert witness on licensing inventions in Jacobson v. Kawasaki, involving the Jet Ski®. He is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the Orange County Patent Law Association, the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, the Better Business Bureau, and the Forum for Corporate Directors.  He is licensed to practice law in the States of California and Illinois, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Connors has assisted inventors and entrepreneurs in commercializing their ideas, and believes that the knowledge he gained while serving as director of start-up companies is unique and unobtainable other than by hands-on experience. He shares this knowledge by consulting in connection with start-up business planning, stock offerings, operations management, and invention and technology licensing.  Currently Mr. Connors is a director of a successful medical device company, ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ ). Click here for a newspaper article on ICU Medical, Inc.

He is the author of The Ten Commandments for Protecting Your Million-Dollar Idea. Click here for information about the book. He has also published a number of articles on patent and trademark law in Business to Business magazine, and he has lectured on intellectual property law and entrepreneurship at Pepperdine University, Saddleback College, and UCLA.

Mr. Connors holds a Juris Doctor degree from John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minnesota.