Billings Patent Attorney Protects Your Bright Ideas (2008), Billings Gazette
"I get to work with creative people, bright people, entrepreneurs. They're energetic and they're driven."

Small-Scale Work Is a Huge Step for MSU Billings (2007), MSU Billings News Release
"It meant a tremendous amount to me to work on this," said Tease, whose intellectual property work ranges from mechanical devices to antibiotics to software. "I am a patent attorney because of MSU Billings."

Legally Speaking: What GPLv3 Means for the Microsoft-Novell Pact (2007), ITBuisnessEdge
"The GPLv3 purports only to bind parties that is governed by the GPLv3 or a derivative work thereof. Unless Microsoft itself is distributing Linux, it would not be governed by the GPLv3. Rather, the GPLv3 as currently drafted would impose an obligation on Novell to somehow "sheild" its customers from patent lawsuits brought by Microsoft, or, alternatively, to make the source code publicy available...."

A Non–Traditional Approach to Marketing (2007), The Complete Lawyer
"I like to ask questions and listen to people talk about what motivates them––inventors are particularly passionate about pursuing their ideas."

Intellectual Property Attorney Practices Worldwide from Billings (2006), Community Crossroads
"In 2001 [Toni] went to work in-house for a Montana software development company.  'I wanted to understand the business as well as the legal issues these companies face,' Toni explains, 'so I could be a better advisor to them.  And there’s no doubt in my mind that I am a better advisor as a result of that experience."

Trademark issues grow more common - Montana companies find legal woes as they spread beyond state's borders (2005), Missoulian
"More Montana companies are applying for federal trademarks. Also, Montana companies aided by the Internet have pushed beyond the state's boundaries.  That increases the potential for conflict with regional, national and international companies, said Toni Tease, a Billings-based intellectual property attorney. Tease teaches continuing education classes for lawyers on intellectual property issues."

Code Name: Trouble (2004), ABA Journal
". . . code borrowing could create a copyright nightmare.  'The short answer is that it's never right to copy code without permission,' says Toni Tease, former chief counsel and now outside counsel for the Rocky Mountain Technology Group, a software developer in Billings, Mont. Code is copyrighted to its creators 'from the moment they write it unless it's done as work for hire. Then, their employer owns it.'"

Montana Company Accused of Using Swiss Firm's Name: Allegedly Cheats an Egyptian Business Woman (1997), Helena Independent Record
"Our goal in seeking a preliminary injunction was two-fold," said Toni Tease, a Billings attorney representing Credit Suisse First Boston. "First to protect additional members of the public that might be defrauded and secondly to protect our reputation, the value of our trademark and the good will associated with that trademark."