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John is a partner at Bromberg & Sunstein, and a registered patent attorney. He specializes in patent prosecution and patent portfolio development for both domestic and foreign clients. By working with the company's management and engineering staff, he attempts to educate and instill a respect for the importance of intellectual property protection into the corporate culture. Experience John has focused on helping start-up companies develop an IP strategy for protecting their assets. In assisting clients with their portfolio management, John has gained experience in interference proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. John also spends a substantial portion of his time performing clearance investigations and drafting written opinions regarding infringement and validity issues with respect to competitors' patents. He has prosecuted patent applications in various technical fields including network design, digital signal processing, software design, medical devices, digital film compression algorithms and associated integrated circuit design, microwave circuitry, phase locked loops, digital circuits, remote access servers, power conservation circuits, analog-to-digital converters, graphics accelerators, integrated circuit packaging, interactive cable television, data storage software, automated digital video editing, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. During his graduate program at Columbia University, John conducted research and development in the areas of scalable transmission of digital audio in wireless environments and VLSI chip design of systolic arrays. Professional and Community Involvement John is currently the co-chair of the Computer Law Committee of the Boston Patent Lawyers Association. Honors In 2006, John was named by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston magazine a "Rising Star" in the field of intellectual property in Massachusetts. This designation is limited to the top 2.5 percent of attorneys who are under the age of 40 or who have been practicing 10 or fewer years, as chosen by their peers and through independent research. | 