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Indranil has a comprehensive intellectual property practice that includes patent preparation and prosecution, counseling, licensing, and contingency fee litigation in high-technology matters. He began his legal career as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the area of software patent applications in artificial intelligence and speech signal processing. After graduating from the Georgetown University Law Center, Indranil spent several years with highly respected law firms in Houston, Texas, further strengthening and refining his legal skills. Indranil effectively integrates his extensive engineering background, experience and insight from working at the Patent Office on how to quickly get broad claims allowed, and diverse legal expertise to provide his clients with high-quality intellectual property services. Indranil holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with Honors, and a Master of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, with Highest Honors, from the University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate, he received various awards and honors including membership in various engineering honor societies. Indranil also holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Rice University. While in graduate school, Indranil spent a summer at NASA/Johnson Space Center in the Software Technology Branch where he gained insights into artificial intelligence in software applications. After graduate school, Indranil worked full time at IBM in Austin, Texas, as a hardware designer for the RISC System 6000 and POWERPC 601 processor-based systems. While a law student at Georgetown University Law Center, Indranil was active in various student associations and published a number of papers in legal journals. He is licensed to practice before the Texas State Courts and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. • Indranil's Resume (PDF)
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Effective patent prosecution is a fundamental strength of Giorgos’ intellectual property practice that began in 1996. Since then, he has prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications for many top high-tech companies in the areas of, among others, computer software, encryption, microprocessors and logic design, 3D graphics, and digital communications. Giorgos integrates his extensive engineering, mathematics, and physics background with his strength in key aspects of patent law to counsel his clients effectively on how to achieve their intellectual property objectives.
Giorgos received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, with honors, and Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, with honors, from Rice University under a Fulbright Scholarship. While at Rice, Giorgos received various academic honors and awards including an invitation to join Phi Beta Kappa as well as other physics and engineering honor societies. After graduating from Rice, Giorgos was admitted to the graduate physics program of the University of Texas at Austin from where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. His research of the chaotic evolution and dynamical localization of periodically driven quantum rotors was the subject of Nature and Physics Today articles. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law under the Judge Bob Shannon Scholarship. As a law student, Giorgos was the publications editor for the Intellectual Property Law Journal. He is licensed to practice before the Texas State Courts and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• Giorgos' Resume (PDF)
Robert C. Jahnke, Principal
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| Direct: | +1 (512) 680-8866 |
Bob counsels clients on diverse intellectual property matters with an emphasis on intellectual property licensing and patent prosecution. He assists clients in creating and implementing strategies to acquire, develop, protect, enforce, and commercialize intellectual property and technology. Bob has structured, drafted, and negotiated a wide variety of agreements in connection with intellectual property and business transactions involving software, hardware, telecommunications, semiconductor, and Internet products and services. He has also assisted clients in conducting intellectual property audits and due diligence work in connection with technology acquisitions. Bob has prepared and prosecuted patents in the electrical, computer software, telecommunications, and semiconductor arts and advised clients on patentability and infringement issues.
Bob received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. During his graduate studies at the University of Texas, Bob was supported by a U.S. Department of Education fellowship. His graduate work focused on condensed matter physics and quantum chaos. His thesis, entitled “Fractional Wannier-Stark Ladders,” described his studies of semiconductor superlattices in AC-DC electric fields. Bob is a member of the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society and has published papers in Physical Review Letters and Physics Letters A. Bob was conferred the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree with honors from the University of Texas Law School. He is licensed to practice before the Texas State Courts and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• Bob's Resume (PDF)
John Taboada, Of Counsel
| E-mail: | JTaboada@CGIPLaw.com |
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| Direct: | +1 (512) 626-1384 |
Dr. John M. Taboada brings a unique experience to the protection of intellectual property. For nearly a decade, he has run a high tech company focused on creating unique high tech instruments and solutions for a variety of industries. He co-founded Taboada Research Instruments, Inc. (TRI) in 1999 while finishing his graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Early in the company’s life, Dr. Taboada realized the importance of intellectual property and the special need for its protection. After graduating with his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering in 2000, he enrolled in law school. In 2003, he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Taboada brings practical business and legal experience regarding the filing and prosecution of U.S. patents and trademarks as well as patent licensing agreements. He is licensed to practice before the Texas State Courts and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• John's Resume (PDF)
Ann Livingston , Of Counsel
| E-mail: | ALivingston@CGIPLaw.com |
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| Direct: | +1 (512) 587-3336 |
Ann has over twenty years of experience in patent preparation and
prosecution (registered to practice before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office since 1985), and that is her primary concentration.
She also has extensive experience in other areas of intellectual
property law, including patent opinions and trademark and copyright
matters. Ann counsels clients to help them identify and protect
their intellectual property assets and to manage offensive and defensive
assertions of intellectual property rights.
Ann’s educational background is in the area of electrical engineering,
and her work background is in the area of computer technologies.
Throughout her years of patent practice, Ann has overseen the
development of patent portfolios in a wide range of technologies, from
mechanical devices to computing and communication networks to integrated
circuits. Representative skills include digital and analog
communications, micro-mechanical devices, engine control, logic and
processor design, geolocation systems, graphics display technology, and
medical devices.
As outside counsel for a large research institute, Ann learned a variety
of applied engineering technologies. In addition, Ann has
represented other clients of all types and sizes, from large
corporations with broad patent portfolios to small companies with
emerging product lines. Ann draws upon this breadth of experience to
provide clients with advice that fits their particular needs.
• Ann's Resume (PDF)
Douglas W. Pinsky, Of Counsel
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| Direct: | +1 (832) 314-4880 |
Douglas focuses his practice on patent and trademark procurement,
opinion work, and client counseling. He has drafted and prosecuted
patent applications spanning a wide range of technologies in the
computer, electrical, and mechanical arts, such as inkjet printing,
semiconductor devices and methods of their fabrication, flash memory and
controllers, medical devices, business methods and electronic commerce,
and speech recognition and synthesis. Douglas has acquired extensive
intellectual property law experience in both the law firm and corporate
settings. Beyond his professional expertise in the field of intellectual
property, he brings to his work a rigorous training in both the sciences
and the humanities, as well as a strong background in both writing and
teaching. Having studied and worked in various foreign cultures and
professional settings, Douglas draws on his diverse professional,
academic, and personal background to bring different perspectives to
problems so as to achieve robust and comprehensive solutions and to add
value to clients' intellectual property.
Douglas earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics
(ABET-accredited), magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, from
Yale University. He also holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree and a
Master of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the
University of Oxford and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the
University of Chicago. Prior to commencing his career in law, Douglas
held positions as a research analyst at a defense think tank in the
Washington, DC area and as a writing instructor at the University of
Chicago. Douglas earned his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York
City. Over the course of his undergraduate and graduate education, he
received various academic honors, including election to Tau Beta Pi and
the Order of the Coif. As an attorney, Douglas worked at a major
intellectual property law firm in New York and Washington, DC and as
in-house counsel and patent manager for a key R&D foreign subsidiary of
a leading U.S. semiconductor company. In addition, he held positions
with Japanese and Korean intellectual property law firms. Douglas is
licensed to practice law in the state of New York and is admitted to
practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Douglas
is not licensed to practice law in the state of Texas.
• Douglas' Resume (PDF)
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