Mr. Frenchick is a former Senior Patent Counsel with Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota (medical devices), former Staff Patent Attorney with Economics Laboratory, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota (specialty cleaners), and a former Patent Attorney with 3M Company. Mr. Frenchick received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law teaching patent law and prosecution law since 1995. Mr. Frenchick also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law, teaching patent, trademark and copyright law.