I am an experienced patent, trademark, copyright and business law attorney with offices in Princeton and Edison, NJ.  I am also a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  I help entrepreneurs protect their inventions, brand names, works of authorship and trade secrets for maximum competitive advantage.   Some of these clients come to me with nothing more than an idea for a new product or process (or for an improvement to an old one).    I also work with my clients to solve some of their most challenging  intellectual property problems.  Such problems can arise when a company:

• chooses a corporate identity without first checking to see if another company is using the same name;
• loses or discharges an employee who goes on to start a competing business
• wants to sell develop or launch a new product in a “crowded” field
• receives a “cease and desist” letter threatening action for trademark infringement
• is offered a patent license by a company threatening to sue

Representative Projects

• Drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications involving passive and active photonic devices, optical and wireless communication systems, semiconductor devices and fabrication techniques, communications hardware and software, business methods, and electromechanical systems
• Established procedures for handling trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, reviewing invention submissions as candidates for patent protection for several Fortune 500 clients
• Led effort to design around a patent portfolio relating to the use of erbium doped fiber amplifiers in optical communications network for a client
• Developed and rolled out procurement and customer contract templates, and gave training to inhouse contract managers (front line negotiators with vendors and customers)
• For one Fortune 100 company, served as “process owner” for all requests by staff software developers to use open source software – reviewing proposed use for compliance with company prohibition against using modules and libraries having “viral” or “copyleft” effect on proprietary code