Hans logged onto his computer and found thermal engineers in Wisconsin, a patent attorney in Maryland and a visual designer in Massachusetts.
During my 20 years as a patent attorney and patent portfolio strategist, I have noticed marked changes in how patents are perceived and used.
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"There's a lot of lobbies, there's a lot of interests and there's a lot of money, " says Steven Rubin, a patent attorney with WolfBlock in New York.
And they found strong evidence that if a client company recruited a patent attorney from a law firm, subsequently that law firm would start to get significantly more business from that company.
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For example, "Hiring a Patent Attorney: Seven Things to Look For" will rank better than "Seven Things to Look For When Hiring a Patent Attorney, " because the desired keywords, "patent attorney, " come earlier in the sequence.
"Bob Armitage, who is a respected patent attorney, has his views, " Berger said.
Gregory (Fossilman) Raymer, a fleshy 39-year-old patent attorney for Pfizer, holds a pair of eights.
Tarek Fahmi, a long-time Silicon Valley patent attorney, sees two key factors at play.
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Erik Oliver, a 40-year-old patent attorney in Redwood City, Calif.
When we wanted to get to the bottom of this latest example in a long line of arguably questionable patent litigation, we phoned up Julie Samuels, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has also been designated the organization's Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
In closing arguments over the patent dispute, Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs accused Google of embarking on a "reckless path to patent infringement" when developing Android.
With her patent-attorney boyfriend she met at a Mensa event, she heads from Zombie Pox to Suburbia, an intricate strategy game of competitive urban planning.
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But there is a caveat emptor of sorts when it comes to filing patent according to intellectual property attorney Nicholas Wells of the law firm Wells IP Law.
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