Software Electrical Engineering
Resume:
Work Experience
Dates: June **** - present
Employer: IP Center Skolkovo (Russian Federation)
Position: Patent Expert (IT, software, hardware)
Main activities and responsibilities:
Patentable objects identification (from documentation, application, source code);
IP strategy development;
Patent application filing.
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Dates: September 2011 – june 2012.
Employer: Acronis, LLC. (USA, software development).
Position: Intellectual Property Program Manager.
Main activities and responsibilities:
Intellectual Property assets analysis and development company strategy on Intellectual Property protection.
Patentable objects identification, using product documentation or source code (Java, HTML, javascript, jquery, php, C++).
Requirements preparation for software, which automates IP protection and 3rd party components approval processes.
3rd party components licenses analysis, including open-source licenses, such as: GNU GPL v.2.1., GNU GPL v.3., GNU LGPL v.2.0, GNU LGPL v.2.1, Apache license, BSD, etc.
Utility Patent application filling to USPTO;
Patent prosecution work (office actions, fee payment, etc.)
Patent litigation work – technology analysis, documents preparation (answer to complaint, joint agreement, stipulation, motion, etc.), work with patent litigation company, source code analysis, claims charts preparation, etc.
Consulting work with employees. Answer questions, related to intellectual property protection.
Patent search and research work organization – task decomposition, quality control, etc.
Trademark filling.
Copyright filling.
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Results of Work
Created and approved new corporate standards of Intellectual Property management. Using new process, company filed 40% more patent applications.
Developed new workflows and policies for products documentation. After implementation, software developers began to spend up to 30% less time on invention description preparation.
Identified and performed compliance check of more than 100 3rd party components (including open-source components, distributed under GPL, LGPL, Apache, CPOL, BSD, Public Domain, MIT, etc. licenses).
Consulted software developers on questions, related intellectual property protection and 3rd party components usage.
Patent litigation (cases # 3:2011cv05310, #5:2012cv01062, #1:2012cv00372, #4:2012cv00690). Worked with outsource patent litigation company and performed technology analysis, claims chart preparation, source code analysis, lawsuit documents preparation, etc.
Participated as in-house patent counsel in prosecution of the following patents and patent applications:
US 8180984 – “System and method for consolidation of backups”.
US 8145607 – “System and method for online backup and restore of MS Exchange Server”.
US 8074035 – “System and method for using multivolume snapshots for online data backup”.
US 8073815 – “Backup server architecture”.
US 8069320 – “System and method for consolidation of backups”.
US 8051044 – “Method and system for continuous data protection”.
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Dates: January 2010 – September 2011.
Employer: IDlect Patent Agency (USA, Legal services).
Position: Intellectual Property Expert in IT Department.
Main activities and responsibilities:
Patentable objects identification, using product documentation or source code.
Patent application filling to Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
Patent application prosecution work.
Prior-art search.
Work with patent attorneys from Japan, Korea, China.
Preparation of 3rd party components usage policy.
3rd party components licenses analysis, including open-source licenses, such as: GNU GPL v.2.1., GNU GPL v.3., GNU LGPL v.2.0, GNU LGPL v.2.1, Apache license, BSD, etc.
Instructions preration for software developers about how to use 3rd party components.
Trademark application filling to the Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
Copyright registration of software application source code.
Consult clients on questions, related to intellectual property protection.
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Results of Work
Identified more than 100 patentable objects from documentation and software application source code.
Wrote technical requirements, instructions, examples for IDlect Patent project.
Prepare 5 3rd party components usage policy documents.
Analysed licenses of more than 90 open-source components and 5 3rd party components (Facebook, Twitter, UPS, Apple, Google Android).
Filed 5 trademark applications to Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
Copyrighted source code of 4 software applications.
Consulted more than 50 clients on questions, related to intellectual property protection.
Filed 8 patent applications to Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
Used USPTO Accelerated Examination procedure (patent in 1 year) for 3 times.
Prepared replies to more than 20 office actions, from Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
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Dates: January 2008 – December 2009.
Employer: IDlect Patent Agency (USA, Legal services).
Position: Head of Patent Research Department.
Main activities and responsibilities:
Patent research department management;
Task decomposition;
Work with client – answer question, request information, determine a list of work activities etc.
B2B sale work.
Control team work result. Answer employee questions.
Prepare and organize staff trainings.
Prepare documents for tender.
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Results of Work
Performed 21 patent research in the following industries: machine building, machinery, nanotechnology, physics, electrical engineering, software, hardware, hi-tech, medical devices, life-science.
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Dates: July 2006 – December 2007.
Employer: IDlect Patent Agency (USA, Legal services).
Position: Patent Attorney Assistant.
Main activities and responsibilities:
Prepare documents for patent application.
Help patent attorney.
Work with clients – answer questions about intellectual property protection, ask for necessary information etc.
Patent search and research work.
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Results of Work
Consulted more than 50 clients from various industries – machine building, machinery, nanotechnology, physics, electrical engineering, software, hardware, hi-tec, medicine.
Prepared more than 15 patent application drafts, which were filed to Russian PTO, USPTO, EPO.
Performed more than 20 prior-art searches for invention from the following industries: machine building, machinery, nanotechnology, physics, electrical engineering, software, hardware, hi-tec, medicine.
Performed 3 patent research.
Prepared 3 patent research reports with accordance to GOST 15.011-96
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