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.