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Thomas A. Miller, Partner Tom is an experienced attorney active in practically all aspects of intellectual property law. For example, Tom drafts and prosecutes U.S. and foreign patent applications; renders non-infringement, validity, patentability and inventorship opinions; drafts and negotiates license agreements; writes and interprets employment and non-compete contracts; prepares and prosecutes trademark and copyright registrations; and counsels clients on a range of intellectual property issues including portfolio management, patent strategy, design around efforts, and ideation. For the past 14 years, Tom has been engaged primarily in the mechanical and electro-mechanical arts, but also has significant experience with software, automation, nanotechnology, and business method patents. Well versed in the reissue, re-examination, continuation, and appeal processes of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Tom works with clients ranging in size from large corporations to small locally-owned businesses and independent inventors in not only maximizing the protection of their ideas, but harvesting their full economic value as well. A veteran of two large Chicago intellectual property firms as well as an Indiana general practice firm prior to forming Miller, Matthias & Hull, Tom obtained his J.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1995 and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1990. Tom is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and is a member of the Illinois and Indiana state bars. He is also a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, as well as the Chicago Bar Association, where he sits on the Patent & Trademark Lawyer Referral Board. Prior to his career as a patent attorney, Tom was an engineer with Rockwell Automation working within its motor, drive and programmable logic controller division. |
312.977.9903 Specialties: Education: Cornell University, 1990 |
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