AKIKO KOBAYASHI, Ph.D.

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Carlsbad, California 92009

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Physics, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

GPA: 5.0 of 5.0

Ph.D. Thesis Title: "(i) Densities of Phonon States in Semiconductor Alloys and

Superlattices; (ii) Deep Energy Levels of Defects in Hg1-xCdxTe and Wurtzite (II-VI)

Semiconductors"

International Student Exchange Program Scholarship (Japanese Ministry of Education,

Science and Culture)

Information Processing Foundation Scholarship (Japanese Information Processing

Foundation)

Research Assistantship (US Navy)

M.S. in Physics, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo, Japan

M.S. Thesis Title: “NMR Study of Mermin-Ho Texture in He3 A-Phase”

B.S. in Physics, KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan

B.S. Dissertation Title: “Detection and Analysis of Rotational Modes of Nuclei via Particle

Acceleration and Collision Experiment”

ADMISSIONS

Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1999); Patent

Agent, Reg. No. 44,843.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solo Practice, LambentIP, Carlsbad, California, June 2010 – Present

Patent filing and prosecution for private inventors and small businesses.

Providing IP seminars for universities in Japan and Japanese community in Southern

California.

Technology transfer and licensing support; patent sale brokering.

Technical consulting including nanotechnology, solar energy and metamaterial.

Chief Patent Scientist, RAYSPAN CORPORATION, San Diego, California, Feb. 2008 –

June 2010

Patent filing and prosecution in RF electronics for wireless communication based on

metamaterial technology, including antennas, power amplifiers, front-end modules and

analog ICs, filters, couplers, and other RF components and devices.

Litigation and reexamination support for outside counsel by providing technical details,

claim interpretation/comparison and strategies per company’s business directions.

Managing and maintaining IP portfolio including US, foreign and PCT patent

applications, trade secrets, and licensed technology.

Devising and implementing company’s IP policy and mining/protection process.

Training company’s engineers on patent basics.

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Patent Agent, TOWNSEND, TOWNSEND and CREW LLP, San Diego, California, Feb. 2007

– Jan. 2008

Patent filing and prosecution in electronics and software arts, including removable

storage devices, semiconductor IC designs, battery protection circuits, TV broadcasting

systems, VOIP technology, business methods and others.

Patent Agent, KEISEN ASSOCIATES (formerly Omori & Yaguchi LLC), Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, Feb. 2002 – Feb. 2007, also October 2011 – present as a contractor

Patent filing and prosecution from the US to Japan and vice versa in electronics,

mechanics and software arts, including carbon nanotechnology, automobiles, graphics

software, speech recognition devices, organic semiconductor heterostructures, medical

devices, materials growth simulations, ozone generator apparatus and others.

Drafted opinions on patent validity and infringement assessments.

Conducted research and drafted reports on technology transfer per request from

Japanese Government.

Member of Technical Staff, BELL LABORATORIES, LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES (formerly

AT&T), Dallas, Texas, 1989 - 1999

Project and Reliability Engineer (1994 to 1999) - Responsible for prototype-run

management and reliability engineering in power electronics. The reliability activities

focused on MTBF prediction and demonstration, life test, field return data analysis, and

related analog circuit and component analyses of power modules. The prototype-run

management involved coordination of runs with the factory, collection and analysis of

test data, FMA on failed units and corrective action, and holding readiness reviews to

coordinate team efforts and decision-making.

On Special Assignment (1992 to 1994) - Worked as a member of the Deming task

force that successfully enabled then-AT&T Power Systems to become the first American

manufacturer to win the prestigious Deming Prize (awarded by the Japanese Union of

Scientists and Engineers – JUSE). Specific responsibilities included: facilitation of TQM

and statistical quality activities among factory operators; interface with JUSE; translation

of “Description of QC Practices”-- the document thoroughly evaluated by JUSE as the

primary part of the examination process.

Forward Looking Work Engineer (1989 to 1992) - Conducted testing, analysis, and

overall evaluation of the state-of-the-art in power semiconductor technology, with

emphasis on device characteristics, processing and fabrication technologies, cost-

effectiveness, reliability and safety. Examples of power semiconductor devices

investigated are: monolithic isolators for a power integration alternative; high density,

ultra-low-on-resistance MOSFETs for synchronous rectification applications; and the first

commercially available GaAs Schottky diodes as a possible replacement for Si diodes in

next-generation power electronics systems.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, DEPARTMENT OF

PHYSICS, College Park, Maryland, 1985 - 1988

Computer simulations and analyses in the field of solid state physics and materials

science, with emphasis on novel semiconductor materials growth under Molecular Beam

Epitaxy (MBE) conditions and heteroepitaxial strain effects;

Anderson localization in plasmons in aperiodic semiconductor superlattices.

PERSONAL

U.S. Permanent Resident, Japanese Citizen

Fluent in English and Japanese, two-year study of German and French

Publication list available upon request.

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