Practice Areas
Doug focuses his practice on patent prosecution and post-AIA review proceedings. Leveraging an electrical engineering background, he helps clients secure IP protection for electrical and software-related patents impacting a range of technologies, from quantum computing to financial processing, automotive components, antenna systems, automated processing lines, IoT devices, and optical guidance systems. He regularly manages cases involving software patents facing the "Alice" test related to subject matter eligibility and has substantial post-AIA invalidity review proceedings experience at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Doug has extensive experience relating to corporate and higher-education Technology Transfer and IP management, patent portfolio management, client counseling, inventor consultation, and federal litigation infringement claims and defense.