Viral N. Patel

*** ******** ******, ***** *****, CA 95050

acsukp@r.postjobfree.com • 732-***-****

Education

Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA

J.D., July 2015

Dean’s List 2014-2015

Social chair of the South Asian Law Student Association, 2013-2014; Internal Vice President 2014-2015.

External Vice President of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, 2014-2015.

High Tech Law Certificate with Specialization in Intellectual Property.

Patent Bar Eligible.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, May, 2012; Major GPA: 3.35

Minor: Spanish

Dean’s List Spring 2011 and Spring 2012.

Participated in the first law brigade at Rutgers University. On January 2, 2012, I travelled to Panama with members of the Rutgers University and the Duke University Law Brigades and helped rural communities with land titling and property rights.

Experience

Patent Assistant, Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA, May 2014- April 2015

Assisted patent department to oversee administrative functions including data entry, responding to requests from US and foreign law firms, processing invention disclosures, and assisting with filing patent applications. Also, reviewed invention disclosures, provided search scopes, and performed prior art searches.

Patent Strategy Intern, Fernandez & Associates LLP, Atherton, CA, January 2014- May 2014

Worked on patent prosecution of pending applications before the USPTO and performed infringement analysis using clients’ issued patents.

Law Clerk, The Law Office of Herbert T. Patty, San Jose, CA, June 2013- August 2013

Searched for licensable patents in clients’ portfolios and performing infringement analysis on competitors’ products.

Research Projects

Development of a Recording System to Simultaneously Analyze Cortical Recordings with Deep Basal Ganglia Recordings During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Biomedical Engineering Capstone Project

Worked on a team including a neurosurgeon, a neurologist, and a clinical neurophysiologist all from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in order to identify and build the system in terms of the hardware components and then developed the code that allowed the signal to be captured within the previous system framework.

Modeling Oxygen Transport in Cerebral Transport

Modeled how variations in blood flow and hemoglobin concentration affect tissue viability.

Used MATLAB and Simulink to create the model and then used the information to accurately make predictions.

Languages

Gujarati- fluent.

Spanish- advanced proficiency.

Interests

New York Giants, New York Knicks, League of Legends, Crossfit, Hip Hop music, and Rock music.

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