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Jason Paul DeMont. Member - Patent Attorney. Admitted to United States Supreme Court 2009; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1992; Pennsylvania, 1991; United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 35,793. Education: Bucknell University (B.S.E.E. 1982); Dartmouth College (M.S. in Computer Engineering 1985); Penn State - Dickinson School of Law (J.D. 1990); Georgetown University Law Center (Fall 1990). Work Experience: Bell Labs - Member of the Technical Staff (1985-1987); Bell Labs - Patent Attorney (1991-1996). Technology Areas: Wireless, Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Networks, Analog and Digital Electronics, Telecommunications, Information Theory, Signal Processing, Acoustics, and Mathematics. Mr. DeMont is the inventor of U.S. Patents 5,982,889, 6,173,403. E-Mail: jpdemont@dblaw.com.

Wayne S. Breyer. Member - Patent Attorney. Admitted to bar, New Jersey, 1991; New York, 1992; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 38,089. Education: Rutgers University (B.S. Chem. Eng. 1979, cum laude; J.D. 1991). Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi. Member: American Bar Association; New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association. Work Experience: Engelhard Corporation (1979-1988); Lummus Crest Company (1989-1990); Davis Hoxie Faithfull & Hapgood - Associate (1991-1995); Law Office of Wayne S. Breyer (1996-Sept. 1997). Publications: "Know the Basics to Protect Your Inventions," Chem. Eng., Sept. 1993; ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, Drafting Committee for "What is a Trademark?" (1995). Technology Areas: Small Tech (MEMS, MOEMS, Bio-MEMS, Microfluidics, Nanotech); Materials Science (Semiconductor Processing, Polymers); Drug Delivery; Lab Automation. E-Mail: wsbreyer@dblaw.com.

Milena S. Mishev. Director of Trademarks – Trademark Attorney. Admitted to Bulgarian Bar and New York Bar (2003); U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (2005); Education: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Sofia, Bulgaria (LL.B. and LL.M., 1987); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (LL.M. in Intellectual Property, 2002); Fellow of the Squadron Graduate Program in Media and Telecommunications Law (2001-2002). Work Experience: Prior to joining DeMont & Breyer, Milena was an associate and, later, a partner in a New York Intellectual Property Boutique Law Firm with an over hundred-year history of providing intellectual property related legal services. Practice Areas: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law; Trademark Counseling, Clearance and Copyright Prosecution; Ex parte and inter partes proceedings at the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; Copyrights. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; International Trademark Association; Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; Board of Directors of Soroptimist International of New York (Non-governmental organization to the United Nations. Languages: Fluent in Russian and Bulgarian; working knowledge in all South Slavic Languages. E-Mail: mmishev@dblaw.com.

Kiril Dimov. Associate - Patent Attorney. Admitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 60,490. Education: University of Virginia (B.S. Computer Science 2005, with high distinction); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D. 2008). Technology Areas: Computer Science, Telecommunications, Networking. E-Mail: kdimov@dblaw.com.

Josephine A. Paltin. Associate – Patent Attorney. Admitted to bar: New Jersey, 2008; New York, 2009; United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 2008; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2009; United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 62,587. Education: Polytechnic Institute of NYU (B.S. Industrial Engineering 1982, magna cum laude); University of Pennsylvania (M.S. Computer & Information Science 1983); Rutgers University School of Law (J.D. 2008). Work Experience: New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division – law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Skillman, P.J.A.D. (2008-09); Avaya, Inc. (formerly Lucent Technologies, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories) – Technical Manager (1996-2004), Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (1993-96) and Member of Technical Staff (1982-93). While in law school, Josephine interned with the former Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Hon. James R. Zazzali, and also with the Hon. Michael A. Guadagno, J.S.C., in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Part. As an R&D technical manager, supervised all aspects of product lifecycle, from systems engineering and architecture to development and test to manufacturing and customer support. Technology background: computer-based telephony solutions, networks, wireless and voice-over-IP. Fluent in Romanian; working knowledge of French. E-mail: jpaltin@dblaw.com.

Ken L. Ottesen. Associate - Patent Agent. Admitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 54,353. Education: Rutgers University (B.S.E.E. 1982, summa cum laude); Cornell University (Masters in Electrical Engineering 1983); Fairleigh Dickinson University (M.B.A. 2002). Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Beta Gamma Sigma. Work Experience: Bell Labs - Member of the Technical Staff (1982-1995); Bell Labs - Technical Manager (1995-2001). Technology Areas: Wireless Telecommunications (Cellular, LAN), including RF Transmission and Call Control; Data Communications and Networking; Analog and Digital Electronics; Data Compression and Channel Coding; Digital Signal Processing of Audio, Video, and Acoustic Signals; and Methods of Doing Business. E-Mail: klottesen@dblaw.com.

David M. Lazoff, Ph.D. Associate - Patent Agent. Admitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 42,783. Education: Washington University St. Louis (B.S. Computer Science 1990, summa cum laude; M.S. Computer Science 1990); University of Maryland (Ph.D. Computer Science 1996). Work Experience: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Associate & Senior Professional Staff (1990-1997); PatentExperts Corp. - President (1997-2002). Technology Areas: Algorithms and Complexity, Database Systems, Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, Telecommunication Networks, Enterprise Software, Computer Graphics, Digital Electronics, The Internet (Methods of Doing Business/dot.com Patents). E-Mail: dlazoff@dblaw.com.

James A. Walker. Associate - Patent Agent. Admitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 55,706. Education: Rutgers University - College of Engineering, New Brunswick, New Jersey (B.S.E.E. 1984), Rutgers University - Graduate School of Engineering (M.S.E.E. 1989). Work Experience: Bell Labs - Member of the Technical Staff and Technical Manager - MEMS Network Subsystems Group (1984-2000); Tellium, Inc. - Director, Advanced Technologies (2000-2002); JayWalker Technical Consulting, LLC - Founder and President (2002- ). Technology Areas: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems ("MEMS"), Nano-Technology, Optoelectronics, Optical Telecommunications Systems, Semiconductor Processing, Opto-Mechanical Packaging, and Material Science. Mr. Walker has published more than 100 journal articles and conference papers, chaired multiple international technical conferences, and holds more than 50 U.S. patents. E-Mail: jawalker@dblaw.com.

Henry Vuu. Associate - Patent Agent. Admitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Reg. No. 62,865. Education: The College of Staten Island (B.S. Computer Science June 2005); Patent Training Academy at the USPTO (Certificate of Completion July 2006). Work Experience: United States Patent and Trademark Office – Patent Examiner at Technology Center 2100 (January 2006 – March 2007); Patent Agent (March 2007 – January 2009). Technology Areas: Computer Science and Telecommunications. E-Mail: hvuu@dblaw.com.

Giovanni Vannucci. Associate - Technical Advisor. Education: Columbia University (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering; M.Phil in Electrical Engineering; M.A. in Physics; M.S. in Computer Science); University of Pisa, Italy (Doctorate in Physics). Work Experience: Bell Labs Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Dr. Vannucci holds more than three dozen patents and is the co-inventor of Assisted Global Positioning System ("A-GPS"). Technology Areas: radio (satellite and microwave communications, portable/cellular telephony, mobile location techniques, RFID, MIMO) as well as optical communications and communication theory, wireless networking, indoor location techniques, sensor networks, and UWB communications. E-Mail: gv@dblaw.com.


 
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