About My Background
My Patent Law practice covers thirty years in the mechanical and electromechanical arts. For four years, I was employed at Hoffmann & Baron LLP, an intellectual property law firm.
My patent work included heat exchangers; natural gas processing; escalator power systems; high-speed parts sorting, unjamming, filling and packaging; deep sea salvage; digital printers for Xerox; power and hand tools; medical lasers and instruments; orthopedic gait analyzers; LED lighting; and cardiac valve repair; and many more inventions.
For forty years, I had been an engineer in such fields as telecommunications for Bell Labs; heavy road building machines; metal alloy manufacturing; Naval ship design; pneumatic and hydraulic valves to 10,000 psi service for oilfield, aerospace, and undersea use; and consumer products. I was chief engineer with a hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer. I have worked in renewable energy technologies; and automotive product development in Detroit.
I have a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University.