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B.S., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, 1989
J.D., with High Honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1995; Law Review, Admitted the Order of the Coif
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Experience
- Practice devoted to intellectual property, including litigation of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and legal malpractice matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts
- Prosecution of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, including inter party and appellate proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Client counseling, including licensing negotiations, and enforcement, infringement, and validity studies and opinions
- Alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration
- Past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee
- Former patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Bar Memberships
- U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Supreme Court of the State of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Technical Fields
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- Communications technologies, including data coding, wired and wireless networks, communication hardware and software, satellite based communications.
- Control circuitry, including analog and digital controls for mechanical and electromechanical devices, and model predictive control systems.
- Data storage devices, including semiconductor memories, and opto-electronic memories, magnetic devices.
- Data analysis, including data error detection, correction and encoding systems.
- Intelligent analysis systems, including pattern recognition, and electronic image analysis and manipulation.
- Mechanical devices and engineering solutions, including structural mechanical designs and material solutions, and active mechanical devices, including complex mechanical systems.
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- Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), including devices, fabrication, and systems integration.
- Microprocessor technologies, including architecture and fabrication.
- Network hardware and software switches and router technology.
- Nanotechnology, including fabrication of nanoscale devices and materials.
- Opto-electronic devices, systems and fabrication, including semiconductor lasers, interferometers, image sensors, optical amplifiers, and optical repeaters.
- Packet communication standards and software including, for example IEEE 1394 and Bluetooth.
- Power hand tools and other tools, including electrical battery pack and charging technology, motor controllers for power tools.
- Quantum physics driven engineering.
- Web software, including search engines, interfaces and client-server communications.
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