The USPTO would like to thank the following organizations and their representatives who have participated in the Patent Examiner Technical Training Program. Their contributions ensure that patent examiners keep pace with the latest advancements in the state of the art across all disciplines. Their contributions also serve as a keen reminder that, by working together, we can build a stronger intellectual property system.
Thank you to those who participated in the inaugural USPTO Tech Week which took place December 1-5, 2014.
USPTO Tech Week 2014 - Companies and Presenter(s) | |
| Acushnet Company - Steven Aoyama, Randy Chang, Brian Comeau, Charles Golden, Michael Sullivan | |
| Baker Hughes - Timothy Donoughue | |
| CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Inc. - Dr. Robert Matheny | |
| Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. - Bruce Green | |
| Google - Dan Sanderson | |
| iRobot -Tonya Drake, Michael Halloran | |
| Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Dr. Roshni Chintalapati, Dr. Eric Swayze | |
| NASA - Ray Taylor | |
| Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council (NAIPEC) - David Petite | |
| Novartis Pharmaceuticals - Dr. Mary Laughlin | |
| Qualcomm - Roy Howard Davis, Gavin Horn, Damanjit Singh, Yongbin Wei, George Whitten, Sameer Vermani | |
| Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tomoko Suzuki | |
| Seiko Epson - Toshihisa Saruta | |
| Sun Chemical Corporation - Dr. Steve Postle | |
| Trading Technologies International, Inc. - Joe Flerlage, Leo Murphy, Scott Singer | |
| Vcodex Limited -Iain Richardson | |
| Verizon - Michael Ruffini | |
| John Drach | |
| J. Jane Shyeh |
Companies and Speakers - 2014 |
| 3D Systems - Clifford "Buddy" Byrum |
| Aisan Industry Co., Ltd. - Ryota Fukumoto |
| Ambri - Donald R. Sadoway |
| Autodesk - Jesse Harrington Au |
| Award Solution - Charles Derrick, Dr. Nishith Tripathi |
| Banner & Witcoff, Ltd - Erik S. Maurer |
| Baylor College of Medicine - Erez Lieberman Aiden |
| Bell Laboratories - Sebastian Randel |
| Boeing Company - Brett Lyons |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Feng Zhang, Ph.D, Nir Hacohen |
| Broadcom - Nihar Jindal |
| Cameron - Manish Vyas |
| Canady & Lortz, LLP - Suzannah Sundby |
| Canon. Inc - Katsushi Sunagawa, Yasuhiro Hayashi |
| Caribou Bioscience Inc - Rachel Haurwitz, Andrew May |
| Cellular Research, Inc - Dr. Stephen P.A. Fodor |
| Check Point - Mike Barkett, Jae Kim, Tim Otis |
| Cisco System - Keith Griffin, Hugh Barrass |
| Cree Inc - John Edmond |
| Crowd Flower - Chris Van Pelt |
| Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. - Toru Maeda |
| Deep Space Industries - David Gump |
| Design IP - Damon Neagle |
| Dolby Laboratories Inc. - Peng Yin; Ajit Ninan; John Carpenter, Gopal Erinjippurath |
| Dr. Esmael Dinan - Dr. Esmael Dinan |
| EOS of North America, Inc. - Electro Optical Systems - Andrew Lucibello |
| Express Scripts - David Tomala, Charlie Eller, Jacob Cedergreen, Robert Nease, Jr, Randy Canis |
| Federal Employee Defense Services - Sam Swoyer |
| Finnegan, LLP - Elizabeth Ferrill |
| Garmin International, Inc. -Sam Korte |
| GE Transportation - Dr. Pradheepram Ottikkutti, Matthew Malone, Omowoleola (Wole) Akinyemi |
| Genentech, Inc - Paul Naik |
| Giftya.com - Thomas M. Isaacson |
| Google - Mike Tsao, Kevin Moore, Mike Pinkerton, Trevor Strohman, Martin Zinkevich |
| Google - Boyd Fowler |
| GS Yuasa International, Ltd. - Masaaki Shiomi, K. Yorimitsu, Osamu Kobayashi |
| Hewlett-Packard Company - Chris Ferguson, Marcia Chang, Walt Karnstein |
| Honda - Yuichiro Kawamura |
| Immersion Corp - David Birnbaum, Stephen Rank, Juan Manuel Cruz Hernandez |
| Isis Pharmaceuticals - Jeffery Tung |
| John Deere Company - Stephen "Mike" Patton |
| Knobbe Martens - Joseph Mallon |
| Korean Intellectural Policy Office - Jihoon Kim, PhD |
| LG Display Research Center - SooYoung Yoon, J. Kenneth Oh |
| LG Electronics - Byoung-Hoon Kim |
| Lincoln Electric - Kevin Dunn, Sarah Evans, Tony Aditjandra |
| Lippincott IP LLC - Flann Lippincott |
| MarkLogic - Sara Mazer, Mark Ferneau |
| Mars Global Chocolate - Colleen Kramer, Dr. John P. Munafo |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Feng Zhang |
| MauroNewMedia - Charles Mauro |
| Microsoft - Micah Goldsmith, Jeremy Snodgrass |
| Morrison & Foerster LLP - Michael A. Jacobs |
| National Cable Telcom Assoc - Matt Tooley |
| Naval Research Laboratory - Richard W. Fonda |
| NIKE Inc - Martha Moore,Katie Maksym, Rachael Brown |
| NIST - Vladmir Aksyuk |
| NVIDIA - Steven Molnar |
| Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP - Chris Bullard |
| Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC - Margaret Polson |
| Pelican Imaging Corporation - Kartik Venkataraman |
| Price Heneveld LLP - Michael Hages |
| Purdue University - Rakesh Agrawal, Ganesan N. Narsimhan |
| Qualcomm Inc. - Seyfullah Halit Oguz, Ph.D (TC2400); John Hong |
| Rambus Inc - Ely Tsern |
| Restek Corporation - Thomas Kane |
| Saidman Design Law Group - George Raynal |
| Samsung Display/Display Research Center - Ki Nyeng Kang |
| Samsung Electronics Digital Solution, System LSI - Eunyoung Lee, Dr. Yong Jin Cho, Nyeongkyu Kwon |
| Samsung Electronics, Digital Solution, Semiconductor Reasearch and Development - Kyehoon Lee, Younghyun Kim |
| Samsung Information Systems America - Jianzhong Zhang |
| Schrodinger - Dr Woody Sherman (TC1600, Detroit); Osamu Kobayashi |
| SDL - Abdessamad Echihabi, Kevin Knight |
| SEIKO EPSON Corporation - Toshihiko Kano, Norito Ito |
| SK Hynix Inc. - Jae Jin Lee, Kyung Hyun Min |
| Sterne Kessler - Mark Rygiel |
| Stratasys - Paul Hopkins |
| Sughrue Mion, PLLC - Fadi N. Kiblawi, Doug E. Agopsowicz, Doug E. Agopsowicz, Christopher J. Bezak, S. Stuart Lee, Ashraf A. Zahr |
| Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP - Linda Saltiel |
| TE Subsea Communications, LLC - Neal Bergano |
| Tesla Motors - Scott Kohn |
| Tetrad Digital Integrity - Rob Innella |
| The Clearing House Payments Company - Sean Reilly, Rob Hunter, Albert Wood |
| Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, North America, Inc. - Ryan Daniel Desautels, Takashi Kuzuya, Fuminori Mizuno, Kensuke Takechi, Paul Fanson |
| Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. - Dr. Tobias Funk |
| TSMC North America - Lie-Yea Cheng |
| University of New Hampshire - Virendra K. Mathur |
| University of Idaho - David McIlroy |
| University of Illinois - Dr. John A Rogers |
| University of Western Ontario - Peter K Rogan, Ph.D |
| UOP, A Honeywell Company - James Paschall |
| University of Texas Austin - David L. Bourell |
| Verizon - Glenn A. Wellbrock |
| Yahoo - John Chen |
Inclusion on this list of specific organizations, attorneys, law firms, individuals, or corporations does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the USPTO.