- Andrew Bezaitis
Andrew Bezaitis is senior vice president of corporate development at Aspect Software where he leads all M&A and Strategic Partnership activities.
- Eugenio Archontopoulos
Search, classification and examination in the field of distributed systems. Chairman of examination divisions. Expert in the patentability of computer-related inventions and in the legal validity of Internet disclosures. Lecturer in various subjects, i.a. computer-implemented inventions, status of Internet disclosures, non-patent literature, the patent systems. Chairman of the 17th Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods. Publications: Archontopoulos E., D. Guellec, N. . . .
- Reiner Kraft
Reiner is a senior engineering manager at Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA. He manages the contextual search team within web search. He invented Y!Q - Contextual Search, and turned his idea within a short time period into a product that launched early last year in beta at http://yq.search.yahoo.com. Y!Q allows users to search at the point of inspiration, and uses contextual information to augment a user's query and therefore provide more relevant results. Reiner earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science . . .
- Patents Issued To Arnold O. Beckman
Arnold O. Beckman , founder and chairman emeritus of Beckman Instruments, Inc. (now known as Beckman Coulter, Inc.), represents nearly a century of outstanding scientific achievements. Considered one of the top five inventors of scientific instruments, Dr. Beckman created devices that revolutionized the study and understanding of human biology, ultimately saving countless lives around the world. Dr. Beckman once said, "There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence."
- Sarvesh
I like trucks and barbecue.
- Elizabeth Brown
I have a daughter, I have a cat. I like both of them! I am a very open-minded person... There is not a lot that will surprise me. I am a complete optimist. I believe that humans have the capability to do whatever they want to do - it is a matter of how much energy (thought is included here) is put into achieving what you want.
- Stephen G. Kunin
Stephen G. Kunin Special Counsel, Oblon Spivak Former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, USPTO Stephen G. Kunin is the former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has more than 30 years of expertise in intellectual property rights protection and 24 years of organizational management and leadership experience.
- Kathleen K. Sybert
Kathleen Sybert , Ph.D., Esq. Of Counsel Kathleen Sybert has over twenty years of experience in the life sciences, including as a researcher and inventor in the biotechnology industry, and as a technology transfer professional at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Bob Dematteis
Bob DeMatteis is an inventor extraordinaire and leading authority on invention development. He has over 25 U.S. patents and several others worldwide. Sales of his inventions exceed $1 billion. Bob does not manufacture or market his creations, but licenses them to qualified industry suppliers. He is one of the original developers of the plastic grocery sack and several other plastic bagging systems used in the retail, supermarket, fast food and point-of-purchase applications.
- Aaron J. Morrow
Aaron J. Morrow - Patent Agent Aaron Morrow joined Patents+TMS in November 2006. He is a graduate from the University of Dayton, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, and the University of Missouri - St. Louis, where he received a Masters degree in Biology. He graduated magna cum laude from The John Marshall Law School in June 2005.
- Oliver Hassa
Oliver Hassa , Electrical Engineer (Dipl. -Ing.) Oliver Hassa graduated as an electrical engineer from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen Nürnberg.
- Sean Dennehy
Sean Dennehy Sean joined the Office in 1978 with a degree in Natural Sciences to work as a patent examiner. Since then, Sean has worked in different parts of the Office, including the Search and Advisory Service, and its Policy Directorate, which he helped set up. Sean became Divisional Director in the Patents Directorate in 1996. He led the Patents Legal section and one of its patent examining divisions, as well as being a tribunal Hearing Officer.
- Matt Carey
Matt Carey - Intern Matt Carey joined Patents+TMS in November 2006. He graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He is currently a second year law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law and is pursuing Kent's Intellectual Property Certificate Program. In his spare time, Matt enjoys attending concerts and baseball games, riding his bike, and playing softball. Email Matt at MattC@patents-tms.com
- Luke Barbin
Luke Barbin - Associate Attorney Luke joined Patents+TMS in August 2005 after earning his Juris Doctor from DePaul University of Law. Prior to moving to Chicago to study law, Luke graduated from Texas A&M University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. Luke worked as an engineer for Alcon Labs R&D in Fort Worth, Texas where he developed visco-elastic intraocular lenses for cataract replacements.
- Mike Cornell
Mike Cornell - Graphic Designer Mike Cornell joined Patents+TMS in August 2006. He graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Saint Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Mike moved to Chicago in July 2006 to attend the Chicago Portfolio School and is studying to become an advertising creative.
- Brian M. Mattson
Brian M. Mattson - President & Managing Partner/Registered Patent Attorney Brian Mattson founded Patents+TMS in 1998 after more than ten years of experience in intellectual property law including partnership at a large Chicago IP firm and a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent Office. Brian has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.
- Michael Vuocolo
Michael Vuocolo - Office Manager Michael joined Patents+TMS in March 2005. He relocated to Chicago from New York City in August of 2004 to be with his long distance love Kristie. Before the move, Michael worked for the fashion designer Amsale as the Assistant Controller. Michael speaks Italian, has lived outside of Milan and worked for Citi Suisse in Lugano, Switzerland.
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- Imran Anwar
New York, USA, based serial "parallel entrepreneur", innovator, idea-generation machine and inventor. Trusted advisor to some of the most powerful names in media industry and C-level consultant corporate world. Personal mottos say it all: "Change The World; Bit By Bit, Byte By Byte" "If Anyone Can, 'I' Can" "Imagine, Implement, Innovate!" Founder of Internet Email in Pakistan, and pioneered branded credit cards in Pakistan. . . .
- Roxanne E. Cenatempo
Roxanne Cenatempo is the Global Chief Intellectual Property Officer (Counsel) for Imerys SA, a multinational, industrial minerals producer having about $4 Billion in annual sales. Imerys’ headquarters are located in Paris, France, the company is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, and is active in over 45 countries.
- Hervé Albaret-Boit
- Del Buono
Dr. Del Buono represents a diverse group of U.S. and international clients drawn from a variety of sectors of the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology and chemicals industries. He provides counseling with regard to patent portfolio strategy and management for issues ranging from licensing, collaborations and technology acquisitions, to patent validity, infringement and design around strategies.
- William Lacourse
William LaCourse Patents Vacuum Membrane Extraction System William LaCourse, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, recently received a patent for the Vacuum Membrane Extraction System (patent number US 7,028,562). This apparatus is designed for sampling and analysis of gas phase molecules. The patent can be viewed in its entirety on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site at http://www.uspto.gov .
- Teika Pakalns
Teika Pakalns Senior Licensing Associate Patents and Technology Marketing Teika Pakalns joined Patents and Technology Marketing in 2000, and is a Licensing Associate in the Biological, Engineering and Computer Technologies division. She manages a portfolio of University technologies developed by researchers in the Institute of Technology and in physical sciences and engineering departments at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
- Margareta Oproiu
Mrs. Oproiu attended abroad several courses of industrial property rights and specifically on international patent and trademark litigation. Mrs. Oproiu was granted finalist for the European IP Awards 2006 by the World leaders Magazine. In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of patent and trademark litigation actions in the Romanian courts, Cabinet Oproiu representing clients in a large number of cases.
- Chris Wong
Chris Wong , project manager of Peer to Patent Project: Community Review, says the system must be made compulsory if it is to work. Currently the pilot project is only voluntary. The Peer to Patent Project allows people (theoretically) to send publications and materials to the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO) that might be material to proving an invention is not new.
- Ken Ma
- Ellis Robinson
- Peter Niles
- Keith Beresford
- Nancy Spitzer
Nancy Spitzer has been a librarian at Wendt Library since 1998. As part of Wendt's role in the USPTO's Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, she helps library users (university and the public) with the patent searching process and locating patent resources. Nancy also teaches patent research workshops for UW College of Engineering classes in engineering professional development, graduate seminars, engineering design classes and for an annual student creativity competition.
- Omkar Deodhar
- Gautam Sain
- Gautam Sain
- Rebecca Hebert
- Eran Silverman
- Peter Meserve
Professor Peter Meserve attended the Second Southern Connection Congress in Valdivia, Chile between 6-11 January 1997 and presented an invited plenary address titled "The interplay of biotic and abiotic factors in a semiarid Chilean community: results of a long-term biological experiment." Faculty Patents
- Les Guice
Les Guice , Ph.D Louisiana Tech Tech Transfer/IP/Patents VP for Research and Development
- François Veltz
- Leonard Myers
Leonard Myers (November 13, 1827 - February 11, 1905) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction. Leonard Myers was born in Attleboro, Pennsylvania (now Langhorne, Pennsylvania). He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and studied law, but did not earn a degree. He was major of the Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, …