Charles F. Wieland III focuses his practice on designing IP strategies for startup and mature companies, patent drafting, acquisition and licensing. He is a former patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the area of electrical/radiant energy. Chad has experience with preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications, reissue applications and re-examinations, as well as preparing validity, infringement and patentability opinions involving MEMs, NEMs, microfluidics, carbon nanotube production and application in electron emitters and display devices, nano-scale electrical components and nano-scale signal processors and storage devices, fuel cells, semiconductor device structures, cellular telephony, optical systems, including cameras, auto focus systems, lens systems, optical fibers and fiber optic switches, optical disc structures, including CD, DVD/CD and DVD players; infrared systems; planar antennas; and other electrical, electronic, electro-mechanical, applied physics and mechanical arts. Additionally, Chad represents start-up companies, particularly in the protection of software and business methods including obtaining patent protection on e-commerce applications, financial instruments and investment tools and methods, Internet protocol and instant messaging applications, as well as negotiations and drafting software licenses and other technology transfer agreements. While an examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he gained four years of experience in electrical/radiant energy practice areas, examining more than 200 U.S. patents in the areas of optical measuring and testing systems, photocell circuits, x-ray optics and other radiant energy systems, semiconductor device circuits and structures and circuit boards. He has drafted and/or prosecuted more than 2,200 patents and patent applications. He also has experience in litigation discovery management, legal research, drafting motions, responses, replies, interrogatories, document requests and requests for admissions, reviewing documents for production and claims of attorney-client privilege and work product immunity. He has pro-bono courtroom experience. Chad was a partner with Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, one of the oldest and largest law firms in the United States focusing exclusively on intellectual property, until its lawyers and other professionals joined Buchanan in 2005. He served as the team leader of the Nanotechnology Team and is co-founder of the Atlantic Nano Forum, now the Emerging Tech Forum. He is also a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Responsibility. Chad is assistant editor of Nanotechnology Law & Business. In 2008, Chad was named to Nanotechnology Law & Business journal's Top Ten list. Publications & Speeches Buchanan's Intellectual Property Practice, IP Attorneys Wieland, Skiff and Duffet Recognized by Legal 500
July 1, 2009 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorney Selected to Virginia Super Lawyers List
June 25, 2009 Four Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected to Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers List
June 17, 2009 Task Force on Patenting Tax Strategies
panelist, ABA's Section of Taxation's 2009 May Meeting
May 8, 2009 In re Bilski: A Meaningful Contraction of Business Method Patents?, Court reaffirms business methods are patentable but limits them to those that involve machines or involve physical transformations, relying on case law that predates the Internet
November 3, 2008 Transcript of Charles Wieland's Patents on Tax Strategies Presentation Published in Houston Business and Tax Law Journal
September 2, 2008 Alexandria Intellectual Property Attorney Chad Wieland's Recent Honor Noted by Nanotech Websites
September 2, 2008 Alexandria Intellectual Property Attorney Chad Wieland Named to Nanotechnology Law & Business' Top Ten List
August 28, 2008 Alexandria Intellectual Property Attorney Chad Wieland Named to Nanotechnology Law & Business' Top Ten List
August 19, 2008 Five Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected as Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers
July 24, 2008 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorney Selected as Virginia Super Lawyer
July 15, 2008 Intellectual Property Attorneys Chad Wieland and Scott Cummings Publish Article on Patent Advice for Startups in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
May 14, 2008 How Successful Startups Capitalize on IP, Patent Advice that can Help Catapult Your Big Idea
IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
December 2007 A Primer for Tax and Estate Planning Practitioners on How to Read and Search for Patents
panelist at ABA Taxation Section May Meeting
May 2007 The Impact of Patents on Nanotechnology
June 21, 2006 Nanotechnology: Its Unique Aspects and Commercialization Opportunities
September 21, 2005 Using Intellectual Property to Protect Business Methods
July 5, 2005 Is the U.S. Nanotechnology Investment Paying Off?
July 5, 2005 Affiliations Co-founder, Atlantic Nano Forum American Intellectual Property Law Association Nanotechnology Committee, Intellectual Property Owners Association Nanotechnology Committee, Northern Virginia Technology Counsel Patent and Trademark Office Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers MIT-Stanford-UC Berkeley Nano Forum Intellectual Property Law Section, past chair of the Information Retrieval Committee 704, American Bar Association Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law Section Council Member, Virginia Bar Association | 
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