Practice Areas & Industries: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The attorneys in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's Electrical Practice Group possess not only many years of legal experience, but also a broad and deep scientific background. While the majority of the Electrical Group's attorneys hold electrical engineering degrees, they also hold physics, materials engineering, and aerospace and aeronautical engineering degrees. Some are also former examiners with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

In today's economy, where competitors vie 24/7 to be first in the marketplace with an innovation, our attorneys' ability to quickly grasp the technical nuances and competitive features of a product or service is a valuable benefit to our clients.

Besides helping to create intellectual property for our clients, the Electrical Practice Group helps clients by developing patent portfolio strategies, considering standardization organization activity and licensing patents and technology to and from commercial organizations, universities and governments.

Our attorneys have experience in electronic circuits and systems; semiconductor device design and fabrication; wired, wireless and optical telecommunications; computer software, firmware, and hardware; and signal processors and processing techniques and algorithms.

Within these broad technical categories, our patent attorneys and agents have particular knowledge in:

• Antennae array systems.
• Circuit-switched and packet-data networks, devices and standards, including cellular radio telephones and infrastructure, wireless LANs, Bluetooth¿ networks, GSM, TDMA, CDMA, 2.5G and 3G. Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology including wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems.
• Data (audio, video, etc.) compression/ decompression and classical and quantum cryptography. Signal processing including multi-parameter processing for multi-dimensional systems.
• DRAM and other memory chips, bipolar and FET structures and single-instruction multiple-data processing architectures.
• Fiber-optic cables and components, including LEDs and diode lasers, filters, modulators and splitters.
• Genetic algorithms.
• Imaging and display devices and algorithms, including cameras, CAT scanners, computer vision, magnetic resonance imagers, FLIRs, optical encoders, optics and X-ray tomography.
• MEMS and nanotechnology.
• Robotics.