IntelleTek Law Group

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Bar and Court Admissions:

New York Bar
New Jersey Bar
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Education:

Juris Doctor - St. John's School of Law
M.S.E.E. in Device Physics and VLSI Design - S.J.S.U.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Languages:

English
German
Russian
Tajik (Persian)
Hebrew

Gabriel Daniel

Principal

800 2nd Ave; Suite 802

New York, NY 10017

Tel: (646) 820-4453

Email: gdaniel@intelletek.com

Gabriel Daniel is the founder of IntelleTek Law Group, PLLC, and is based in the Firm's New York office. He focuses his practice on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, client counseling, due diligence, and legal opinions. His prosecution and counseling experience involves a wide range of sciences, including electrical engineering, information systems, automotive technology, software, and business methods.

Gabriel is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications.

Engineering Experience:

Prior to entering the practice of law, Gabriel worked for over thirteen years at leading companies in the semiconductor industry, earning senior titles first in digital and later in analog design. He has expertise in digital, analog and mixed-signal IC design in CMOS, Bipolar and BiCMOS technology. He has authored and co-authored a dozen technical papers in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers and other engineering research journals. He has twenty-five inventions and patents in Digital, DRAM, and Analog Design.

Previous Work:

Gabriel has formerly worked at Kenyon & Kenyon, McDermott Will & Emery, Schiff Hardin, and Cozen O'Connor.

Bar and Court Admissions:

California Bar
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Central Districts Court of California

Education:

Juris Doctor - Champan University, 2008
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991, cum laude, Tau Beta Pi

Languages:

English
Chinese

John Lin

Of Counsel

Email: jlin@intelletek.com

John Lin is an intellectual property attorney who specializes in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. He has drafted hundreds of patent applications in a wide range of sciences, including semiconductors, cable modems, networking, solar energy, video coding, software, and mobile device technologies. He is also experienced in prosecuting patent applications in the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, Korea, and other jurisdictions.

Engineering Experience:

John has over 13 years of engineering experience, where he worked for leading semiconductor companies as a senior staff design engineer. He was instrumental in the development of many state of the art telecommunication, microprocessor, and multimedia systems.

Bar and Court Admissions:

New York Bar;
Connecticut State Bar;
New Jersey State Bar;
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education:

Juris Doctor - Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, NY
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, cum laude New York Institute of Technology, NY

Stephen Gigante

Of Counsel

Email: sgigante@intelletek.com

Stephen Gigante has over 20 years of experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of electrical and electro-mechanical disciplines, including wireless communication, storage devices, touchscreen displays, smartphone apps, LCDs and OLEDs, microcontrollers, medical devices, smart-gun technology, semiconductors, software, computer-related devices, and business method patents.

Stephen has experience overseeing prosecution of patent family applications on behalf of U.S. clients filing abroad in jurisdictions including Canada, Japan, China, E.U., Taiwan, Australia, Israel, and has participated in Oral Proceedings at the EPO offices in Munich, Germany.

Engineering Experience:

Stephen worked in the Field Engineering Division of IBM, where he focused on Large-system computers, storage devices, and associated telecommunication devices.

Bar and Court Admissions:

California State Bar
USPTO Bar

Education:

Juris Doctor, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
BS, Physics, California State University, CA

Alexis Saenz

Of Counsel

Email: asaenz@intelletek.com

Alexis Saenz is a patent attorney with over a decade of IP experience. He has prepared hundreds of patent applications and responses to the USPTO. He focuses on providing cost-effective approaches with an emphasis on securing patents with discernible value.

A graduate of Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Alexis Saenz has worked substantially with patent applications in the general software, computer, robotics, virtual/augmented reality, artificial intelligence, mechanical, optical, electrical, telecommunication, consumer products, and sports equipment fields. Some of the larger clients he has represented include IBM, Kyocera, Honeywell International, Inc., Lenovo, Mattel, UC Irvine, and TP Vision (an IP subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips N.V.).

Engineering Experience:

A former physics engineer, Alexis Saenz has also worked for the Raytheon Corporation, one of the largest defense firms in the nation. His technical experience includes working with electro-optics, (including semi-conductor materials, lasers, light sensors, light emitting diodes, etc.) weapons guidance systems, network switches, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). His keen understanding of how things work lends itself to articulating the significance of inventive features to the USPTO.

Bar and Court Admissions:

New York Bar;
Connecticut State Bar;
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office;
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Education:

Juris Doctor - St. John's School of Law, NY
M.S. in Chemistry, Seton Hall University, West Orange, NJ
B.S. in Chemistry, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Lyman Smith

Of Counsel

Email: lsmith@intelletek.com

Lyman Smith has over 15 years of experience as an intellectual property attorney, including preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the U.S. and abroad, patent life-cycle management, patent licensing, trademark procurement and prosecution, patent freedom to operate analysis, and patent portfolio management and analysis.

Lyman is also a former USPTO patent Examiner, providing him a unique perspective to the patent process. Lyman has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of applications in a myriad of technologies, including pharmaceutical compounds, processes, treatments methods and compositions; biotechnology; medical devices; computer implemented business methods; telecommunications; software; computer architecture design; aircraft systems; optical devices; nanotechnology; heat-exchangers; powder handling devices; as well as other various technologies.

Engineering Experience:

Lyman worked as a bench chemist, performing organic synthesis, process development, analytical chemistry, parallel combinatorial chemistry, and automation systems.

Bar and Court Admissions:

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education:

MS, Patent Law, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Beau Horner

Senior Patent Agent

Email: bhorner@intelletek.com

Beau Horner is a registered patent agent with a decade of experience in intellectual property. As well as drafting over one hundred patent applications as a patent agent, Beau has also worked as a patent analyst where he examined PCT applications and developed effective response strategies as a result of performing the examination process. Along with his patent searching experience, Beau provides his clients with strong patent drafting and prosecution skills to help clients obtain effective and powerful patents for their intellectual property.

Engineering Experience:

Beau’s science and engineering experience includes fabricating lithium ion batteries, synthesizing polymers, and analyzing surface phenomena characteristics of textiles. His patent experience includes preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications in a number of areas including materials science, mechanical systems, chemistry, business methods, computer software, and consumer goods.

Bar and Court Admissions:

Maryland State Bar
USPTO Bar

Education:

Juris Doctor, Santa Clara University School of Law, California
BS, Electrical Engineering, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

Languages:

English
Spanish
French
Italian
Mandarin Chinese

Pablo Huerta

Of Counsel

Email: phuerta@intelletek.com

Pablo Huerta is a registered patent attorney with more than a decade of experience in intellectual property. He has prepared hundreds of patent applications and responses to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Pablo is a former patent examiner and leverages his deep understanding of the USPTO's inner workings to navigate and find solutions to various hurdles that arise during prosecution. He leverages a wealth of knowledge in patent prosecution and complex IP issues to help clients obtain robust patent protection for their innovations.

Pablo's experience includes preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications in the electrical and mechanical arts, including telecommunications systems, computer hardware systems, semiconductors, business methods, e-commerce, financial systems, artificial intelligence / machine learning, and magnetic memory devices.

Engineering Experience:

A former electrical engineer, Pablo has worked for Varian Thin Film Systems, Novellus, and Sun Microsystems. His technical experience includes working with Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) sputtering equipment which produced thin films on semiconductor substrates. At Sun Microsystems, Pablo worked as a Product Engineer where he developed test procedures and performed root-cause analyses in the manufacturing of network storage devices, including network-attached storage (NAS) appliances.

Bar and Court Admissions:

USPTO Bar

Education:

MSME, Polytechnic Institute of New York, NY

Anthony Fresco

Senior Patent Agent

Email: afresco@intelletek.com

Anthony Fresco is a senior patent agent with decades of patent preparation and prosecution experiences. He has prepared and prosecuted a countless number of patent application mostly in the mechanical arts.

Engineering Experience:

Anthony holds an MSME and has decades of engineering experience. He was an assistant engineer at Con Edison, held several different engineering positions related to the design of both fossil and nuclear power plants, has worked for over 20 years at Brookhaven national Laboratory, was involved with a proton accelerator (now the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)), and was involved with various tasks related to regulatory safety issues for nuclear power plants. Anthony is a Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was the 1986-1987 and 2012-2014 Chairman of the ASME Long Island Section.

Loretta Charles

Senior Patent Paralegal

800 2nd Ave; Suite 802

New York, NY 10017

Tel: (646) 228-7834

Email: lcharles@intelletek.com

Loretta Charles is a senior patent paralegal who brings nearly two decades of legal experience to IntelleTek Law Group, PLLC. She is highly skilled in all aspects of IP practice to ensure compliance with patent formalities and procedures. Loretta manages patent dockets of U.S. and foreign applications and works closely with the attorneys to make sure that all deadlines are met. Loretta used to work for many years with Gabriel Daniel before at Kenyon and Kenyon.

Education:

Paralegal, NYU School of Professional Studies, NY, NY
BA Political Science, Hunter College, NY, NY