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Practices

Biography

Tom has extensive experience counseling clients on evaluating, acquiring, and protecting intellectual property assets. He focuses his practice on patent matters, including domestic and foreign patent prosecution in the areas of communications, consumer electronics, consumer products, semiconductor and materials technologies, medical devices, casino and consumer gaming, software and network-based systems, and computer-implemented business methods. Tom’s patent practice is also directed to patent and technology licensing, IP due diligence, product clearance and patent opinions, and patent post-grant procedures.

Tom previously was Senior Counsel at Darby & Darby P.C. in New York. He also held positions as an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman in New York and as Corporate Counsel at Lucent Technologies Inc. and Avaya Inc. in Holmdel, New Jersey. At Avaya, Tom was responsible for setting up and administering the company’s patent prosecution practices, including the selection and deployment of docketing and related information management systems and the management of outside counsel, foreign associates, and patent annuity vendor services.

Other Info About Thomas

Education

Law School

Rutgers School of Law – Newark, J.D., M.S.

Undergraduate School

Stanford University|Cornell University, B.S., cum laude

  • Participant, Cornell Cooperative Engineering Program

Clerkships

Thomas served as a clerk for the court(s) and judge(s) below:

Judicial intern to the Honorable Philip B. Cummis, Law Division, Special Civil Part, Essex County Superior Court, 1994

Bar Memberships

Thomas is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

New Jersey

New York

Courts

Thomas is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

United States Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 44,528)

Supreme Court of the United States

Recognition

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association

 

New York Intellectual Property Law Association

 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

New Jersey State Bar Association

 

New York State Bar Association

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Member, Colts Neck Lions Club