Bob has been responsible for the management and development of patent matters for a wide range of clients including the areas of hyper-dimensional computing for machine learning, RF semiconductor, power electronics, semiconductor fabrication, semiconductor memory, computer systems architecture, audio technologies, biomedical devices, and related software. He has helped numerous clients develop a robust patent portfolio; a number of the patents Bob has drafted and prosecuted have been successfully litigated/licensed to large multinational corporations.

Bob also has significant experience drafting invalidity and non-infringement opinions as a defense to willfulness, representing clients during due diligence, counseling clients in the acquisition of technology, negotiating patent license agreements, and conducting strategic prosecution as part of a licensing strategy.

Prior to his legal career, Bob worked for 12 years as a senior design engineer in the development of products in the areas of solid-state memory, error detection/correction, image compression/decompression, and medical imaging for Digital Equipment Corp. and Polaroid Medical Imaging Systems.

Non-prosecution-related experience includes:

• Served as IP opinion counsel to an RF device manufacturer in support of a public stock offering.

• Represented a Client in the due diligence investigation of the Client’s patent portfolio in support of a $70M investment made by a European holding company.

• Represented a Client in a due diligence investigation regarding a $10M acquisition of a patent portfolio including 1900 patents related to audio/wearable/medical technologies.

• Represented a Client in the out-licensing of intellectual property related to video/wearable technology for real-time video systems.

• Represented a Client in a due diligence investigation for the acquisition of a patent portfolio related to social media systems.

• Advised a Client as opinion counsel on issues related to invalidity and non-infringement in defense of an assertion of willful patent infringement of a group of 7 patents related to semiconductor wafer processing for use in mobile communications products.

Honors that Bob has received include the following:

• Chambers USA: Recognized in Intellectual Property, 2014-2023 editions.

• Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2023.

• IP Stars Patent Star, 2023