MARK R. CARTER, PH.D. - Patent Agent

PO Box ***01, Washington, DC 20091-0201

Telephone: 202-***-****

E-mail: abmr7o@r.postjobfree.com;

abmr7o@r.postjobfree.com

PATENT EXPERIENCE

Preparing and prosecuting U.S. patent applications including: interviewing

inventors, drafting patent figures, drafting claims, amending

applications, interviewing examiners, preparing declarations, drafting

appeal briefs, and supervising foreign prosecution. Analyzing patents to

support litigation and licensing.

BAR MEMBERSHIP

United States Patent Bar - Reg. No. 39,131

LEGAL EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 2008-2012.

Vice President, Student Intellectual Property Law Association. AIPLA

Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Scholar. Patents (enforcement memoes & briefs);

copyrights (music law); constitutional law; administrative law; LSAT

Analytical Reasoning (Logic Games) perfect score.

PATENT WORK HISTORY

Novak Druce & Quigg, San Francisco, CA, Of Counsel (Patent Agent). 2007-

08.

Independent Contractor, Palo Alto, CA, Patent Agent. 2005-07.

Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA, Patent Agent. 1997-2001.

Carter & Associates, Palo Alto, CA, Patent Agent and Patent Draftsman.

1995-97.

Hickman & Beyer, Palo Alto, CA, Patent Engineer and Patent Draftsman. 1993-

95.

PATENT WORKSHOPS

Patent Resources Group

Crafting and Drafting Winning Patents

Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents

Guaranteed Patent Term and Pre-Issuance Publication

Software Patents - Procuring and Enforcing

Term Extending Ex Parte Patent Practice - Preparing, Prosecution &

Appeals

European Patent Practice

Advanced Application and Amendment Writing

Patent Academy via SCI[3]

Patent Searching and the Internet (Advanced)

Novelty/Anticipation 35 USC 102; Obviousness 35 USC 103

Amendment of Patent Cooperation Treaty Regulations

Reexamination and Reissue; After Final Practice

Silicon Valley Seminars

Advanced Patent Claim Drafting

PATENT TECHNICAL AREAS

Electric motors, electrical circuits, semiconductor processing and

manufacture, semiconductor packaging, software, electronic music.

SELECTED PUBLISHED PATENTS

Electric Motors & Positioning Devices Having Moving Magnet Arrays & Six

Degrees of Freedom, U.S. Patent No. 6,208,045.

Method & Apparatus for Compressing Reference Frames in an Interframe Video

Codec, U.S. Patent No. 6,130,911.

Method & Apparatus for Simulating an Electrical Circuit Design Using

Approximate Circuit Element Tapers, U.S. Patent No. 6,088,523.

Integrated Circuit Having a Diamond Thin Film Trench Arrangement as a

Component Thereof & Method, U.S. Patent No. 5,573,973.

Professional Associations

Federal Circuit Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law

Association, San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association, Los

Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association.

MARK R. CARTER, PH.D. - PAGE 2 - Engineering & Science

EDUCATION

Haas School of Business, University of California, Executive Education,

Finance Series. 2007.

Mathematical Finance. Fixed Income Securities: Bonds, Asset-Backed

Securities (ABS) and Risk Management.

Stanford University, Ph.D., Theoretical Physics (Quantum Field Theory).

1987.

Dissertation advisor and member of reading committee widely regarded as

among the very best physicists in the world. James Chadwick Scholar in

memory of the Nobel Laureate at Subnuclear School in Erice, Sicily.

Selected to attend the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute for particle

physics.

Harvard University, B.A., Physics and Mathematics. 1981.

Teachers included many very prestigious scientists including three Nobel

Laureates in Physics, two Heineman Award Winners, and a National Science

Medalist in Mathematics. National Scholar.

ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC WORK HISTORY

Westwood College, Annandale, VA, Adjunct Instructor. 2009-10.

Introduction to Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences.

Sanford-Brown College, Falls Church, VA, Adjunct Instructor. 2009.

Survey of Science.

Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, Research Scientist,

Applied Mathematician, and Electrical Engineer. 1987-91

Numerical simulations and theoretical modeling. Maintaining, modifying,

porting, writing, and running both higher level and command code.

Writing and compiling reports and user manuals. A member of Lockheed's

premier research group. Early promotion.

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Postdoctoral Research Associate.

1990-91.

Research in weak interactions, quantum gravity, chaos and solid state

physics.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, Research Assistant in

Theoretical Physics. 1982-87.

Research in quantum field theory and particle physics, including: string

functional integrals, dynamical symmetry breaking, Kaluza-Klein theory,

heat kernel expansions, and bosonic and fermionic mass generation.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Teaching Assistant. 1981-87.

Leading discussions, supervising laboratories and grading homework for

freshman physics courses. Writing clear and comprehensive homework

solutions for a graduate quantum field theory course.

ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL AREAS

Electromagnetic radiation and scattering including antenna design;

advanced numerical analysis particularly for partial differential

equations including finite elements, multigrid, and mesh generation; all

aspects of theoretical physics; mathematical finance including options

pricing models; software engineering.

ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Mark R. Carter, Monopole Effects on Gauge and Higgs Bosons (University of

Maryland preprint UMDEPP-91-202), available at http://ccdb4fs.kek.jp/cgi-

bin/img_index?9106016.

Mark R. Carter, One Loop Effects in Higher Dimensional Yang-Mills Theories

(University Microfilms International UMI 88-00910-mc, AAT 8800910),

available at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=752301881&Fmt=7&clientId

=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD (verification of the Wilson Loop dynamical

symmetry breaking conjecture for a simply-connected space and calculation

of Kaluza-Klein family mass splittings).

Mark R. Carter, Light Fermion Mass Generation in a Kaluza-Klein Theory, 36

Physical Review D 412 (the first calculation of a family mass splitting

in any theory).

LANGUAGES

Familiarity with Spanish, French, German, and Latin.

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