Attorney Profile: Doug Weller
During the 30 years Doug Weller has been a patent attorney in Silicon Valley, California, he has obtained many hundreds of patents for preeminent technology companies, start-ups and individual inventors.
From 1983 to 1987, Doug worked for Hewlett-Packard Company as an intellectual property attorney handling a broad spectrum of intellectual property issues for several divisions.
In 1987, Doug founded his own law firm, specializing in patent procurement for the technology being developed in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Formal Education
- University of California at Davis BS Electrical Engineering/Computer Science (1979)
- University of California at Berkeley School of Law JD (1983)
- Western Seminary M.Div (1990)
Other Interests
Doug delights to spend time with his wife Frances and son Weston.He attends Community Christian Church in Gilroy, CA. He is currently a volunteer for Prison Fellowship, leading classes at Salinas Valley State Prison. He is a past president of San Jose Toastmasters and the school board for The King’s Academy in Sunnyvale, CA. For recreation, Doug enjoys golf, bicycling and hiking.
Science Papers
From his local public library, Doug checked out a popular science book written by Paul Davies, entitled About Time. Although intrigued by Paul Davies’ description of the time singularity at the event horizon of a black hole, Doug recognized an inconsistency in the explanation of what happens to an object that approaches a black hole. Chasing down the inconsistency led Doug to the original papers written by Albert Einstein on special and general relativity, a paper by Hermann Minkowski on space and time, and the paper Karl Schwarzschild wrote on the Schwarzschild metric, which purportedly provides the theoretical basis for black holes. Doug has put up a website and written a series of papers on relativity that support Einstein’s view that black holes are incompatible with the theory of general relativity. Links to some of these papers are listed below.
- How black holes violate the conservation of energy
- Five fallacies used to link black holes to Einstein’s relativistic space-time
- Gravity and the conservation of energy
- Momentum and energy in the Schwarzschild metric
- A fundamental principle of relativity
- Why black holes with permeable event horizons are perpetual motion machines
- The fiery end of a journey to the event horizon of a black hole
by Doug Weller
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