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Attorney Profiles
Maier & Maier, PLLC was founded in 2006 by brothers Timothy and Christopher Maier. Timothy and Christopher each spent several years working in various areas of intellectual property law, including private practice and for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The brothers dreamed of opening their own firm as youths and have modeled their firm after the Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt firm, of which their father is a founding partner.
Maier & Maier offers a wealth of patent knowledge and prosecution know-how in a variety of fields, including electrical, computer, mechanical, biotechnical, aeronautical and business method arts. Additionally, Maier & Maier offer years of experience in litigation, licensing and other intellectual property-related issues.
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 Timothy J. Maier
Principal, Registered Patent Attorney
tjm@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Maier is a registered Patent Attorney and practices all aspects of patent law. Mr. Maier has experience in a wide array of patent law, including patent preparation and prosecution; patent litigation; pre-litigation analysis, patent reissue and reexamination proceedings; interference practice; strategic national and international patent portfolio development and management; patentability, validity, invalidity, infringement, freedom to operate and due diligence opinions and design patents. Mr. Maier's technical expertise includes various aspects of electro-mechanical, and electrical, mechanical and telecommunication engineering, and he has served clients in highly competitive technical areas, including, medical devices, telecommunications, consumer electronics, cosmetic devices, packaging, semiconductors, e-commerce software, optics, and business methods.
Mr. Maier's experience and expertise most recently has focused on providing a range of patent services to clients and developing patent strategies that complement the client’s business objectives. In particular, he enjoys developing and managing patent portfolios for the world market, for both start-up, middle market and Fortune 500 companies. To this end, he also analyzes competitors’ patent portfolios and products to counsel clients regarding enhancement and enforcement of their patent portfolio, potential investment of contemplated products, strategic design-arounds, and acquisition of technology.
Prior to founding Maier & Maier, PLLC, Mr. Maier was formerly an attorney with Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C. and Harness, Dickey and Pierce, PLLC.
Mr. Maier received his Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University and Masters in Telecommunications Engineering from George Mason University School of Engineering and his Law degree from George Mason University School of Law. Mr. Maier completed the Intellectual Property Law sequence while attending George Mason University School of Law, an intense concentration in intellectual property law.
Mr. Maier is licensed to practice before the United States Patent Office, Supreme Court of Virginia, Eastern District Court of Virginia, and the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He is a member of Virginia State Bar, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the American Bar Association (ABA Patents, Trademarks and Copyright Divisions), Licensing Executives Society (LES) and is an author for www.postgrant.com a leading intellectual property law blog.
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 Christopher J. Maier
Principal, Registered Patent Attorney
cjm@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Maier is a registered Patent Attorney and practices all aspects of patent prosecution. He is experienced in diversified technologies, which include computer systems microprocessor architecture, parallel processing, semiconductor fabrication, network architectures, telecommunications, optical networks, digital signal processing, and satellite systems. Mr. Maier has also successfully procured patents in the fields of biotechnology, aeronautical engineering and business methods.
Mr. Maier previously spent several years as an Examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). While at the USPTO, Mr. Maier specialized in flat panel display technology and computer peripheral devices. Prior to graduating from law school, Mr. Maier worked as a patent agent, drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of technological fields.
Mr. Maier received his Bachelor’s of Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from George Mason University School of Law. Mr. Maier is licensed to practice before the United States Patent Office, Supreme Court of Virginia, Eastern District Court of Virginia, and the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the American Bar Association (ABA).
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 Ryan P. Gillan
Registered Patent Agent
rpg@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Gillan is a registered Patent Agent with Maier & Maier, PLLC. Mr.
Gillan was previously an Examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) where he specialized in pumps, compressors, fans and control
systems of such devices. While at the USPTO, Mr. Gillan gained experience
in patent prosecution, including appeals, reissue, and PCT practice.
Mr. Gillan received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young
University. Mr. Gillan is current attending George Mason School of Law and
pursuing the Intellectual Property Track, a specialized concentration in
intellectual property law.
Mr. Gillan is registered to practice before the USPTO and is a member of the
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and American Bar
Association (ABA).
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 Eret C. McNichols
Associate, Registered Patent Attorney
ecm@maierandmaier.com
Mr. McNichols is a registered Patent Attorney and is involved with various aspects of patent preparation and prosecution. Prior to joining Maier & Maier PLLC, Mr. McNichols was an associate attorney at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Saint Louis, Missouri where he prepared and prosecuted patent applications for numerous inventors, businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in diverse technologies including mechanical, medical, electro-mechanical, aeronautical, transportation, and power generation systems and components.
Mr. McNichols received a Bachelor’s of Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He also received his Law degree from The John Marshall School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. McNichols also received a J.D. Certificate in intellectual property from The John Marshall School of Law, which is a specialized concentration in intellectual property law.
Mr. McNichols is licensed to practice before the United State Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the Missouri and Illinois State Bars. He is a member of the Missouri State Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
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Jon Schiffrin
js@maierandmaier.com
Jon Schiffrin attends to matters relating to Intellectual Property, specifically trademark, copyright and unfair competition issues.
Jon worked as a Trademark Examining Attorney for the United States Patent & Trademark Office where he reviewed thousands of applications seeking trademark registration.
He has prepared appeals on behalf of the PTO in matters relating to descriptiveness, likelihood of confusion and geographic descriptiveness before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The appeal in In re J.T. Tobacconists, Inc., 59 USPQ2d 1080 (TTAB 2001) was published by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and has been used by Trademark Examiners as a guide with regard to this issue. Jon has also successfully presented appeals to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in the following matters: In re Lebanon Chemical Corporation, In re Turtle Mountain Inc., and In re Performance Labs, Inc.
Jon has also worked at one of the largest Intellectual Property firms in the world, representing Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, automotive, insurance, financial, and publishing fields, among others. He has handled enforcement matters, domain name disputes, trademark portfolio maintenance and clearance, and litigation covering a variety of issues ranging from priority of use to dilution.
In addition, Jon has negotiated and drafted licensing agreements for personal services, intellectual property, and the use of likeness and biographies for a national marketing campaign.
Jon is currently an Adjunct Professor, Trademarks and Unfair Competition at Catholic University Law School.
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Paul V. Del Guidice
Senior Patent Agent
pvd@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Del Guidice is Registered to practice before the USPTO. He received his B.S. from George Washington University, in Computer Science/ Applied Mathmatics. Mr. Del Guidice was formerly employed by a large patent firm on the Washington D.C. area. Paul specializes in electronics, with extensive experience in mechanics and optical/laser technologies.
Paul experience is extensive. He specializes in representing domestic and foreign corporations in all post grant proceedings before the USPTO, including Reexamination, Reissue; PCT practice; and other litigation matters. Paul also has extensive Copyright practice experience.
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Donald G. Kelly
Registered Patent Agent & USPTO Liaison
dgk@maierandmaier.com
Donald G. Kelly is a registered Patent Agent and the USPTO Liaison for Maier & Maier, PLLC. Mr. Kelly is a former executive at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he served as senior assistant to two commissioners and directed the operation of a variety of patent examining divisions. Mr. Kelly currently heads Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a company that provides a variety of services to small business enterprises and independent inventors. Mr. Kelly additionally acts as an intellectual property consultant, expert witness, prosecutor and technology broker. Mr. Kelly also currently functions as an adjunct professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center, as well as a visiting lecturer at MIT's Sloan Graduate School and Fordham University's Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Kelly received a BS-ME from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he specialized in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Kelly is an active member of the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Association, where he is a Vice Chair of the Committee on Independent Inventors and Small Business. Further, Mr. Kelly is a member of the professional development faculty of the Licensing Executive Society (LES).
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Kevin A. Nordberg
Registered Patent Agent
kan@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Nordberg is a Registered Patent Agent with Maier & Maier PLLC. Mr. Nordberg focuses his efforts on patent application drafting and prosecution. Mr. Nordberg also conducts patentability/novelty, validity, infringement, right-to-use/clearance, state-of-the-art, collection, search-and-watch, non-patent technical literature, trademark and copyright research services for Maier & Maier, PLLC.
Mr. Nordberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, and majored in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At the University of Massachusetts, Mr. Nordberg's senior elective studies emphasized VLSI Design and microelectronic device fabrication including hands on device fabrication experience in a fully functional clean room laboratory. Mr. Nordberg previously headed the electrical/mechanical technical research department of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
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Michael S. Babst, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
msb@maierandmaier.com
Michael Babst serves as a technical advisor to Maier & Maier, PLLC. He is also the President and Founder of DSPlogic, Inc, which specializes in high-performance embedded systems and reconfigurable computing.
He is a practical, hands-on expert in Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and real-time embedded systems as well as wireless communications, satellite, RADAR, and SONAR theory and applications. His practical expertise includes a broad range of hardware and software programming languages, system design and specification, product development, and program management.
Mike has over 15 years of experience in the commercial and defense sectors, working for industry leaders such as General Electric Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Comsat Laboratories, and ViaSat. Dr. Babst helped to develop several fixed, mobile, and airborne satellite modems and other communications equipment for military and commercial customers.
Dr. Babst holds a B.S. from Lehigh University, an M.S. from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, all in Electrical Engineering.
Mike is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Eta Sigma. Additionally, Mike is Fluent in Spanish.
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David A. Brant
Technical Advisor
dab@maierandmaier.com
Dr. Brant is a technical advisor in the firm's Chemical department. He has held numerous academic positions including Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, Chair, and Chair of the Department of Education. Dr. Brant received his BS in Chemistry from Yale, his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from Wisconsin and performed Postdoctoral studies in Polymer Physical Chemistry at Stanford.
Dr. Brant has significant scientific expertise in polymer and biopolymer materials, science structure and function of plant and microbial carbohydrate polymers (polysaccharides), experimental characterization of biopolymer size, shape, and dynamics, computer simulation of biopolymer conformation and dynamics statistical mechanical theory of biopolymer conformation and thermodynamics of biopolymer interactions.
Dr. Brant is an author of more than 100 articles and book chapters, mostly in refereed publications. He is a presenter of more than 100 lectures at scientific meetings, organizer of numerous national and international scientific meetings, editor of the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules Editorial Board and a member of four scientific journals. Additionally, Dr. Brant has served on NSF and NIH grant review panels, acted as a reviewer for numerous scientific papers submitted for publication and served as a reviewer of numerous applications for federal scientific grants.
Dr. Brant has received many significant rewards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Honorary doctorate from the University of Trieste, Italy, the Onsager Medal from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and named Class of 2001 Outstanding Professor from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Brant is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biophysical Society and Sigma Xi. Additionally, Dr. Brant is fluent in German and French.
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Brian Dunbar
Technical Advisor
bd@maierandmaier.com
Mr. Dunbar is a technical advisor with the firm’s electrical and mechanical department. He is president of Dunbar Consulting, Inc. where he provides complete software life cycle services in building and supporting commercial software applications for private companies and the federal government.
Mr. Dunbar has extensive experience in software life cycle management, software development team management, software system design, and open source software integration. He has held numerous positions as a software engineer and software development team lead. Mr. Dunbar has expertise in designing and building real-time, high-availability, mission critical information systems in Java and he commands a myriad of software languages and applications including: Java-Applications, Applets, Servlets, J2EE, JSP, JDBC, EJB, JNDI, JMS, XML, XSLT, Web-Services, XML-RPC, Tapestry, JUnit, Struts, Ant, Tomcat, Apache, Log4j, Torque, Hibernate, JBoss, Jetty, Axis, Weblogic, Ruby on Rails, Eclipse, IntelliJ- IDEA, Linux, Unix, Windows, X-Windows, HTML, JavaScript, C, C++, Perl, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Mr. Dunbar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from George Mason University, where he achieved highest honors.
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Roderick D. Swift, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
rds@maierandmaier.com
Roderick Swift serves as a technical consultant to Maier & Maier, PLLC in the areas of signal processing, computer architecture, and software design. He is currently Director of Application Development at Lampdesk Corporation.
Dr. Swift’s experience includes a range of hardware and software development as well as technical advisory roles to business and government. He has served as an expert witness and technical consultant for several computer architecture patent cases, providing testimony, authoring claim charts, and advising attorneys. As president of Epimedia, Inc., he developed control systems for automated RF testing of automobiles, for a portable anthrax neutralization system and for titanium getter vacuum pumps. His software development skills encompass a wide breadth of programming languages and operating systems with platforms including mobile phones, microcontrollers, desktop computers and supercomputers.
While serving as a Captain in the Air Force he was Test Director for a $30M high power microwave prototype system at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He also served as a Technical Auditor for the State Department in Moscow and Chelyabinsk, Russia in support of the Nunn-Lugar nuclear nonproliferation program.
Roderick received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and 1995, and a B.S. from Duke University in 1992, all in electrical engineering. Roderick is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and Sigma Xi.
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Max Kaganov
Law Clerk
max@maierandmaier.com
Max Kaganov is a law clerk with Maier & Maier, PLLC. He is currently attending George Mason University School of Law, where he is pursuing the Intellectual Property Law track. Max received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, where he majored in Chemistry and minored in International Studies. Additionally, Max is fluent in Russian and conversational Spanish.
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