About Ken
In a career as a patent attorney spanning nearly three decades, Ken has focused on preparing patent applications, and prosecuting applications before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Ken has authored hundreds of patent applications and prosecuted literally thousands more to allowance by the USPTO. Examples of just a few of the U.S. patents issued from applications which Ken authored.
Ken has extensive experience in all aspects of patent preparation and prosecution, including successfully responding to Office Actions, winning appeals, conducting oral hearings, defending patents against reexamination challenges, and obtaining broadening reissues. Ken has also written dozens of non-infringement and invalidity opinions and conducted many freedom-to-operate studies. Over the course of his career, Ken has developed relationships with patent attorneys in many foreign jurisdictions and has provided guidance to attorneys in the UK, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, and other countries around the world on behalf of his clients’ patent applications in those countries.
Ken has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a wide range of technology areas. Some examples of these technologies are: semiconductors, including all forms of memory cells; display devices; wireless communications, including mobile telephony; audio systems; lighting, including light emitting diode (LED)-based lighting; optics, including eye examination instruments; computer software; radio frequency (RF) devices; fiber optics; surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators; magnetic resonance imaging; acoustic imaging; robotics; cryptography; device security; consumer appliances; water purification; and many more.
Previous Clients
Some of the more well-known clients whom Ken has represented in the past include Samsung, LG Electronics, Agilent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, JDS Uniphase, Avago Technologies/Broadcom, and Philips Lighting/Signify.
Engineering Expertise
Before becoming a patent attorney, Ken worked as an electrical engineer for a dozen years in private industry for companies such as Motorola, Raytheon, and Harris, designing and developing wireless RF and microwave communications systems for the private sector and the U.S. government, for which work Ken held various security clearances and twice worked in sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs). Ken obtained two U.S. patents for his work as an electrical engineer. Later, Ken worked as an engineer for the National Association of Broadcasters, helping advance polices for digital audio broadcasting.
Education & Credentials
Ken obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1994, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and has been registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office since 1995. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ken obtained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree, summa cum laude, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of South Florida.