Engineer Technical Support

J. ROBERT MIRVILLE

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Admitted: NJ and PA Bars. USPTO (Reg. #46,407)

ATTORNEY/CORPORATE COUNSEL

IP-LAW SPECIALIST

Ten-year career providing transactional expertise and patent

preparation and prosecution services. Eight-year experience working in

systems engineering and three-year career in software engineering

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

* Document Review and Patent Search Analysis - Various Agencies

2007 to Present

Provided document review services to various agencies working

for an assortment of law firms in the DC and Philadelphia

metropolitan area. Performed patent search and prepared

patentability reports.

* Contract Drafting and Negotiation AT&T Corporate Law Group

1997-2002

Structured, prepared, reviewed and negotiated purchasing

contracts for all AT&T lines of business. As the Chief IP

attorney for the Supplier Management Law Group, drafted and

negotiated all IP-related agreements associated with company's

purchasing activities. Such agreements included software license

and software development agreements, hardware acquisition

agreements, service level agreements, consulting agreements and

non-disclosure agreements. Provided legal advice on day-to-day

company activities related to procurement contractual issues

* Patent Drafting and Prosecution AT&T Bell Labs - Law Division IP-

Law Group 1992-1997

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications for AT&T Bell Labs.

Managed the patent portfolio of the Business Communications

Services Group of AT&T. Oversaw and reviewed US and foreign

patent applications drafted by outside counsel. Developed

strategies for filing patent applications deemed particularly

valuable. Responsibilities also included preparation of

infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions.

Provided litigation support in the AT&T vs. MCI patent

infringement lawsuit. Developed seminars to educate engineers

and marketing people about patentability concepts and procedures

as well as the legal consequences of inappropriate disclosure of

AT&T proprietary information.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

* Systems Engineering AT&T Information Systems 1984- 1987

As a Systems Engineer, my scope of duties included:

. Interfacing with marketing managers to assess the types of

new communications services features needed to fulfill

customer requirements and new marketing initiatives of AT&T

Business Communications Services

. Developing specifications for use by software developers to

write and test lines of code in order to meet such

requirements

. Insuring that the newly developed services features

integrate well with feature packages offered to customers

while assuring total system design integrity

* Technical Support Engineer AT&T Information Systems 1987-

1992

As a Tier III Technical Support Engineer, my responsibilities

included:

. Providing technical support and assistance to regional

technical support engineers and field support engineers for

major accounts for AT&T data (LAN/WAN) networking products

. Coordinating data networking product evaluations, including

new feature introduction, feature beta tests to ensure

optimum product quality. As part of such activities,

solicited customer's input at customer user group meetings.

. Supporting product marketing group and product development group

at industry trade shows and managing relationship between such

groups with respect to field support activities

* Software Engineering Mutual Benefit Life, Newark, NJ 1980-1984

. Designed, developed, documented and maintained software programs

in COBOL for use in Group Insurance systems. Interfaced with

business side clients to gather requirements and translate such

requirements into functional specifications;

. Other functions included writing test plans and test scripts to

functionally assess and evaluate developed software against system

requirements

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

* Corporate Training AT&T 1999-2002

. Developed Intellectual Property law training materials and

conducted training seminars for AT&T purchasing agents.

* University Teaching

2001-2002

. Developed and taught graduate level courses on Intellectual

Property Law and Telecommunications Regulation for Stevens

Institute of Technology

EDUCATION

. Spartan Health Sciences University, St Lucia, W.I.

Completed 3 years of medical school, 2007

. Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark NJ

Juris Doctorate, January 1993

. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Masters of Science in Econometrics, 1979

. Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Bachelor of Science in Economics, 1976

Special Skills:

. Languages: Written and verbal proficiency in French and

Spanish

. Computer Skills: Experienced in use of Windows and all major

Microsoft Office packages, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

. Member of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bars

. USPTO Bar, Registration Number : 46,407

US PATENTS

. "On-demand communications services" US Patent No. 5,745,553

. "Method and system for transmitting activation codes to a

communication device" US Patent No. 6,396,914

. "Transaction authorization and alert system" US Patent No.

5,708,422

REFERENCES: Provided upon request

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