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
Intellectual Property Law. Mr. Maier’s practice includes patent preparation and prosecution; patent and trademark litigation; design patents, trademark oppositions, patent reissue and reexamination proceedings; interference practice; strategic domestic and international patent and trademark portfolio development and management; patentability, validity, invalidity, infringement, freedom to operate, design around opinions and counseling, patent portfolio landscape analysis and due diligence opinions. Mr. Maier's technical expertise includes various aspects of electrical engineering, electro-mechanical, mechanical, industrial, wireless technology, software enabled systems, financial systems and telecommunication engineering. Mr. Maier has serviced clients in highly competitive technical areas, including, medical devices, RFID technology, financial products, 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-around, and acquisition of technology.
Prior to founding
Maier & Maier, PLLC, Mr. Maier was formerly an attorney with
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C..
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 the Virginia State Bar (VSB), American Bar Association (ABA Patents, Trademarks and Copyright Divisions), Licensing Executives Society (LES), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI, published articles) and American Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA, elected to two year committee term).
Currently Mr. Maier is a faculty member with Patent Resource Group, providing lectures around the United States to broad audiences on patent prosecution and enforcement in Asian countries, including Japan, Korea and China. 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 and patent litigation, including patent reissue and reexamination proceedings, international patent portfolio development and management and opinion work, including validity, invalidity, infringement and freedom to operate. 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, mechanical engineering and business methods, as well as numerous areas of design patents. Further, Mr. Maier has assisted clients in all aspects of trademark law, including procurement, prosecution and enforcement.
Mr. Maier is a frequent lecturer on current intellectual property topics, trends and happenings. He has lectured both domestically and internationally on such topics as KSR v. Teleflex and its impact on obviousness, In re Bilski and the future of business method patents, the proposed rules and their evolutionary changes and other topical aspects of patent law. Currently Mr. Maier is a faculty member with Patent Resource Group, providing lectures to broad audiences on patent prosecution and enforcement in Asian countries, including Japan, Korea and China.
Mr. Maier 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 (LCD, plasma, device drivers) and all 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, including microprocessors, video compression and related algorithms and keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches.
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, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the 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), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) and the American Bar Association (ABA).
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Tim Harbeck
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Tim Harbeck is a law clerk with Maier & Maier, PLLC. He is currently attending George Mason University School of Law, where he is pursuing the Patent Law track.
Prior to attending law school, Tim was an Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for nearly three years. While at the USPTO, Tim examined a variety of Business Method patent applications pertaining to finance, banking and investment, portfolio selection, electronic trading, and securities bid-matching.
Tim received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.
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Jon Schiffrin
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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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Max Kaganov
Law Clerk
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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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William Wittwer
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William Wittwer was previously an Assistant Patent Advisor for the United States Department of Agriculture for the Office of Technology Transfer. He has a J.D., specializing in Intellectual Property and Corporate Law, a Master of Business Administration, Finance and Consulting and has a Bachelor of Science, Major Biology, Minor Chemistry (Biotech). As an Assistant Patent Advisor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture he drafted patent applications and prepared patent prosecution documents. He also assisted in targeting potential licensing markets for patented inventions. As a Research Assistant at Brigham Young University he was tasked to identify the properties of the p17 protein relating to the activation of the Colla2 gene. Mr. Wittwer is a Registered Patent Agent at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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John Wallace
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John Wallace is currently attending George Washington University Law School, where he is pursuing the Intellectual Property Law track. John attended Clemson University for his undergraduate studies, where he concurrently earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelors of Science in Economics with a Minor in Mathematical Sciences. John's Electrical Engineering studies included a concentration on communications, including courses on computer communications, digital communications, and random signal analysis.
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Paul V. Del Guidice
Senior Patent Agent
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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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Kevin A. Nordberg
Registered Patent Agent
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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
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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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Brian Dunbar
Technical Advisor
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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
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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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