By : EON
Source : http://eon.businesswire.com
Category : Patent News
WASHINGTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--O’Brien Jones, PLLC, a women-owned, boutique patent law firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Elizabeth Burke and Louis Troilo, two seasoned IP attorneys with nearly 40 years of combined experience, as Members of the firm.
“Their combined experience greatly enhances the firm’s ability to provide representation in complex U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including reexamination, reissue, and post-grant review proceedings.”
“Liz and Lou significantly add to the firm’s expertise in global patent procurement and portfolio management, opinion services, and client counseling,” said Susanne Jones, a Founding Member of O’Brien Jones. “Their combined experience greatly enhances the firm’s ability to provide representation in complex U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including reexamination, reissue, and post-grant review proceedings.”
Ms. Burke, a former partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Finnegan, joins the firm’s mechanical/medical device practice group. With her extensive experience handling both ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings, Ms. Burke will be heading up the firm’s reexamination practice. Prior to her private law firm career, Ms. Burke was a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Examiner in medical device technologies, and subsequently worked in Clemson University’s technology transfer office while obtaining her master’s degree in bioengineering.
Mr. Troilo also joins the firm from Finnegan’s Washington, D.C. office. His expertise in providing strategic patent counseling for a wide array of material science technologies, including nanotechnology, diversifies the firm’s chemical/materials practice group. Mr. Troilo also is a former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Examiner, and currently lectures globally on all areas of U.S. patent procurement and enforcement, including teaching an international course on Patent Drafting and Prosecution for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
O’Brien Jones has seen significant growth this year, adding three new patent attorneys in 2012. The firm continues to seek out accomplished patent practitioners, further enabling it to provide top-tier legal representation to an expanding list of clients around the world.
ABOUT O’BRIEN JONES, PLLC
O’Brien Jones, PLLC, located in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, specializes in intellectual property law, with particular emphases on patent procurement and strategic portfolio management, and patentability, validity, enforceability, and infringement opinions. O’Brien Jones, PLLC is a WBENC Certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE).
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