Alex Furman focuses his intellectual property practice on patent and trademark prosecution, strategic counseling, and litigation. Alex analyzes intellectual property strategies with clients during research and development phases, and through the prosecution and litigation phases for granted patents and trademarks. In addition, Alex develops with clients strategies for protecting their brands, both in traditional marketplaces and on the Internet. Alex has prosecuted and litigated patents covering a broad range of areas including telecommunications, information systems, software, business methods, electrical circuits, solid state device manufacturing, shape memory materials, and medical device technologies. Before working in intellectual property law, Alex's performed electrical design for high-speed digital and analog circuits supporting optical computers and machine-vision systems. Areas of Concentration · Intellectual property · Patent prosecution · Patent preparation · Trademark prosecution · Patentability assessment · Noninfringement and invalidity analysis Significant Representations · Drafted and secured cornerstone patents for medical device manufacturer, protecting each of the company's first three FDA-approved commercial devices with multiple patents. · Supported technical and strategic analyses for wireless telecommunications litigations each involving more that $100M at risk. · Represented estate owning over 400 domain names through successful defense of domain names against ownership challenge and successful negotiation and sale on favorable terms. · Successfully defended client's high-value domain name against reverse domain name hijacking attempts from owner of worldwide brand. Professional & Community Involvement · Member, American Bar Association · Member, Colorado Bar Association · Member, Boulder County Bar Association Previous Employment · Electrical Engineer, Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Lafayette, CO, 1999-2002 Clerkship · Law Clerk, Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle, LLP, Boulder, CO, 2005 · Law Clerk, Inventor Relations and Licensing, Technology Transfer Office, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, Summer 2004 · Law Clerk, Judges Frank N. Dubofsky and Daniel C. Hale, State District Court, 20th Judicial District, Boulder, CO, 2003 |