TIMOTHY N. ELLIS
REGISTERED PATENT ATTORNEY
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Telephone: (858)455-7977
- Registered patent attorney with electrical engineering degree
- Over eight years of patent law experience
- Quality work at reasonable prices for large international corporations, local corporations, and start-up companies
SERVICES PROVIDED:
- Write patents
- Patent prosecution
- Novelty searches and patentability opinions
- Infringement and validity opinions
- Domestic and international patent strategy counseling
- Due diligence patent analyses for business transactions
REPRESENTATIVE TECHNOLOGIES:
- Electronics
- Computers
- Software
- Printers, Scanners, Copiers
- Semiconductor memory, and magnetic and optical storage devices
- Digital signal processing
- Wireless communications
- Telecommunications
- Integrated circuits
- Mechanical devices
- Medical devices
- Internet
REPRESENTATIVE PATENTS DRAFTED:
- U.S. Patent No. 6,211,721 (Assigned to Applied Micro Circuits Corporation)
- U.S. Patent No. 6,249,605 (Assigned to IBM)
- U.S. Patent No. 6,289,067 (Assigned to Dot Wireless, Inc. and VLSI Technology, Inc.)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Over eight years of patent law experience.
- Principal at the Timothy Ellis patent law office since 2001.
- Previously, patent attorney at Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich for over three years, plus patent law experience at other firms since 1996.
- Work experience has included drafting and prosecuting patents, drafting infringement and validity opinions, patent strategy counseling, and patent litigation.
BAR ADMISSIONS:
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- California State Bar
EDUCATION:
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.
- J.D., University of San Diego School of Law.
- Master of International Business, University of San Diego Graduate School of Business.
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE:
- California, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, and U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
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