ERIC J. MARTINEAU
Tyngsborough, MA 01879
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EDUCATION
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
Juris Doctor, May 2007
Honors/Activities: Achieved grade of A- in four upper-level writing
courses
Teacher's Assistant for Trademarks, and Academic Success
Program, Spring 2007
Pierce Law Intellectual Property; Summer Institute,
Summer 2006
Pierce Law/Tsinghua U. Intellectual Property Summer
Institute, Beijing, PRC,
. Intensive study of World Intellectual Property, Summer
2005
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA
Bachelor of Science, Plastics Engineering, June 1994
Honors/Awards: Russell W. Ehlers Polymer Processing Scholarship
Excellence in Writing Award - English Department
BAR ADMISSIONS
Passed Patent Bar Examination, awaiting final approval and registration in
June 2010
Admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
COMPLIANCE, INC., New York, NY
Contract Attorney, March 2010-April 2010
. Review documents for privilege, and responsiveness to FTC subpoena
(Law Firm: Fried Frank)
. Second Level Review for quality control, and prepared comments for
privilege and redaction logs
GIBSON & DERNIER, LLP, Woodbridge, NJ
Associate, January 2009-December 2009
. Respond to Office Actions for mechanical, chemical and semiconductor
technologies
. Interview inventors and write provisional patent applications
. Document review and research for patent and trademark litigation
CARDINAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Evanston, IL
Search Analyst (working remotely), September 2008-January 2009
. Searched prior art and wrote patentability opinions for PCT
applications for materials sciences, specialty chemicals, and
plastics/polymers technologies for an International Search Authority
. Defeated the patentability of all assigned projects
NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT-LAW DIVISION, Somerset County, Somerville, NJ
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Victor Ashrafi, August 2007-August 2008
. Prepared Judge Ashrafi for all phases of civil litigation
. Wrote 8-10 memoranda for each motion cycle for entry into official
record
. Researched and wrote orders for 60 pre- and post-trial motions for
each motion cycle
. Mediated and settled cases having a $15,000 jurisdictional limit,
24/28 settlement rate
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, Concord, NH
Judicial Clerk Intern, Hon. Jeffrey R. Howard, September 2006-December 2006
. Researched and wrote bench memoranda to prepare Judge Howard for oral
argument
. Authored preliminary drafts of select opinions
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Lowell, MA
Law Clerk, Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property, June
2006-December 2006
. Prepared and filed provisional applications for inventions, including
a nano-micelle drug delivery system, a carbon-nanotube chemical
grafting method, and a polymer-based tissue scaffold apparatus
. Wrote 40 abstracts for patent-pending chemical inventions published in
an online technology portal
. Wrote patentability memoranda for various inventions
. Assisted case managers in evaluating the likelihood of commercial
success of inventions
O'CONNELL LAW OFFICE, Burlington, MA
Law Clerk, January 2006-June 2006
. Wrote patent applications, patentability, and validity memoranda for
several mechanical inventions
. Filed PCT and trademark applications
OTHER EXPERIENCE
YAMAZEN, INC., Chicago, IL
Technical Sales & Market Development, May 2003-May 2004
. Sales and technical service for plastics injection molding machinery
JLI-BOSTON, Boston, MA
Research Leader, October 2000-May 2003
. Specialty retainer-recruiting firm focused on the plastics, packaging
and specialty chemicals sectors
. Identified, researched, and taught technologies of client companies to
recruiters, resulting in successful placements for 12/13 searches for
mid-career engineering positions to VPs
ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL/GENTEX OPTICS, Dudley, MA
Process Development Engineer and Project Manager, August 1998-October 2000
. OEM for various optical and ophthalmic applications
. Achieved 30% cycle time reduction for novel injection molding coining
process
FITCHBURG STATE COLLEGE/NYPRO INSTITUTE, Clinton, MA
Adjunct Professor, January 1999-May 2000
. Fundamentals of Plastics Processing and Design of Plastics Products
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, Freeport, IL
Project and Process Design Engineer, Automotive Sensors Group, June 1994-
August 1998
. Tier 1 supplier and OEM of electronic, electro-mechanical, and opto-
electronic sensors
. Achieved significant cycle time reductions for hundreds of plastics
and polymer products
. Financially justified and specified technical features of $1.3MM in
capital equipment
. Led cross-functional team of managers, engineers, and supervisors to
identify and benchmark new vendors to transform older, 60-machine
department into a state-of-the-art 40-machine operation