Our search team consists of patent practioners who have considerable prior experience in engineering and technical careers, and several of whom have one or more advanced degrees in their particular areas of technical expertise. Our IP practices--and now our professional IP searching--span a specturm of technologies, including telecommunications; computer networking and network devices; semiconductor processing and semiconductor memory and processor chips; software; business methods; organic and inorganic chemistry; petrochemistry; metallurgy; and medical devices. Each of our search specialists is particularly proficient in using our primary resource for conducting searches, namely, the Examiner Automated Search Tool (EAST) System located at the USPTO Public Search Facility, as well as the databases available at the Library of Congress.
Garth Richmond is a patent attorney with extensive experience as a practicing engineer as well as in patent law. For ten years prior to practicing law, Mr. Richmond was employed in the commercial nuclear power industry in the health physics field.
Mr. Richmond's practice includes U.S. patent application preparation and prosecution, patentability and clearance studies, and validity and infringement opinions. Representative technologies with which Mr. Richmond is experienced include: telecommunications, digital multimedia, electronic display panels, electrolytic capacitors, sputtering targets, and semiconductors. Mr. Richmond also has extensive experience in conducting searches in telecommunication, mechanical and semiconductor arts
Mr. Richmond earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of Iowa, where he was a National Registry Radiation Protection Technologists scholarship recipient. Mr. Richmond also earned a J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa, College of Law.