| Biography | Patrick Jewik's practice focuses on patent prosecution and strategic counseling. Mr. Jewik has significant experience in helping clients build strategic patent portfolios, design around patents and achieve maximum business advantage with their patents. Mr. Jewik has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a number of technologies, including semiconductor devices and semiconductor manufacturing, medical devices, electronic toys, insect repellant compositions, nanofabrication processes, nanoscale materials, microfluidic chips, biochips, bioinformatics software and methods, Internet based methods, microporous filters and filter systems, and semiconductor die packages. He has successfully prosecuted both inter partes and ex parte reexamination applications and reissue patent applications, and has had many of his prosecuted patents litigated. Mr. Jewik also worked as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) where he examined patent applications directed to superconductors, semiconductors, electroluminescent devices and materials, polymers, coatings, ceramics, composite fabric materials and circuit boards. At the USPTO, he obtained a partial signatory authority status and a masters level designation in the art of superconductor materials. Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Jewik worked as a process and co-op engineer at IBM Corporation, where he worked in semiconductor manufacturing, circuit board manufacturing and high density magnetic disk research. Industries Technology & Software; Semiconductors & Electronics Experience Patent portfolio management, Represented numerous companies in the financial services, toy, clinical instrument, office products, and semiconductor industries to developing their US and foreign patent portfolios and managed teams of attorneys and agents to execute against strategic portfolio building plans. Value extraction from pending patent applications, Expanded the claims in a pending patent portfolio for computer physical security devices for a consumer products company, where such claims were later found to be valid and infringed by various competitors. Accelerated Examination, Represented numerous clients to obtain patents in the PTO's accelerated examination process to obtain patents in about one year or less concerning Notification Social Networking (U.S. Patent No. 7,668,785), On-Line Authorization in Access Environment (U.S. Patent No. 7,567,920), Security Apparatus Including Attachment Device (U.S. Patent No. 8,042,366), Security Apparatus Including Locking Head (U.S. Patent No. 8,001,812), and Security Apparatus Including Locking Head and Attachment Device (U.S. Patent No. 7,997,106). Inter Partes Re-Examination, Represented a consumer products company in an inter-partes re-examination proceeding to invalidate the claims in U.S. Patent No. 6,936,018. All claims were determined to be invalid in view of the prior art by the U.S.P.T.O.'s reexamination unit. *Experience gained by attorney prior to joining Kilpatrick Townsend Publications 23 January 2012, Changing The Rules Of The Game: Preissuance Submissions
Source: Law360, Articles 01 November 2010, The Utility Model - An Effective Tool in Global Patent Portfolio Protection
Source: Intellectual Property Today, Articles 25 August 2010, How to Fast-Track Your Patent App
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Source: San Francisco Daily Journal, Articles News 24 January 2011, Kilpatrick Townsend's Patrick Jewik to Speak at 14th Annual Washington in the West Conference, News Releases Events 01 August 2011, Trade Secret Protection and A Comparison of Patent and Trade Secret Protections, Events 27 January 2011, LAIPLA Washington In The West, Events 27 April 2009, The New Age of Intelligent IP, Events |