Jeremy W. Burdon, Ph.D.

Jeremy W. Burdon, Ph.D is a registered Patent Agent in the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice of the firm's Phoenix office. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution (domestic and foreign) and patent portfolio management. He brings to his practice an extensive technical and practical knowledge base, spanning advanced materials, physical technologies, imaging technologies, physical and bio-image analysis software and tools, wireless / RF devices and systems, biomedical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, electromechanical, nanotechnology and MEMS materials, devices and sensors, alternative energy technologies, and mechanical innovations.

Jeremy has experience operating at the intersection of intellectual property, business, and technology within Fortune 500 corporate, small business & academic environments. Prior to joining the firm, he spent 18 years in corporate R&D, including Motorola Inc. and Medtronic Inc., where his experience included R&D, product development, competitive intelligence, IP management and patent prosecution.

Areas of Concentration

• Intellectual property

• Patent prosecution (domestic and foreign)

• Technology assessments and patentability opinions

• Patent portfolio management

• Chemistry, polymer and ceramic science

• Advanced MEMS, nanotechnology materials and sensors

• Alternative energy technologies

• Thin-film technologies and devices

• RF and wireless devices and sensors

• Implantable medical devices

• In-vitro diagnostic devices and sensors

Professional & Community Involvement

• Organizing Committee, 3rd Annual AZ Nanotechnology Symposium, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2008

• Lead Chairperson, Nanomaterials Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005

• Lead Organizing Chair and Chairperson, BioDevice Interface Science and Technology Workshop, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2002

• Member, National Association of Patent Practitioners

Professional Experience

Other Experience

• Arizona Technology Enterprises, 2007-2012

• Medtronic, Inc., Neuromodulation Business Unit, 2004-2006

• Medtronic, Inc., Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, 2003-2004

• Motorola Inc., Phoenix Corporate Research Labs, 1998-2003

• Motorola Inc., Component Products Division, 1994-1998

Articles, Lectures & Publications

Jeremy has 15 issued US and foreign patents in advanced materials and processes, MEMS and microsystem devices, sensors and diagnostics. In addition, Jeremy has over 16 technical, scientific and IP management related publications covering many of the technology areas noted above, including:

• Author, "IP Portfolio Management : Negotiating the Information Labyrinth," Chapter 12.4,Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation

• Contributing Author, "A Miniaturized Cyclic PCR Device - Modeling And Experiments," Micro and Nanoengineering 2001, 2001

• Co-Author, "Ceramic Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Micropump", Proc. SP1E 4560, 2001

• Co-Author, "Nano-sized Ceramic Powders and Polymer-Ceramic Composites by Bio-mimetic Routes," Proceedings I. U. M. R. S. Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1993

• Co-Author, "Block Copolymers For Biomimetic Composites," Proc. North American Conf. on Smart Structures And Materials, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1993

• Co-Author, "Luminescence techniques for epoxy resin cure characterization," Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc. Polym. Mat. Sci. Eng., 62, 101, 1990

(Sr. Patent Agent)