HARRITY & HARRITY - Key Persons
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- ASSOCIATE
- Patent Attorney
Abigail Troy is a patent attorney who specializes in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. Her practice focuses on computer hardware and software, telecommunications, computer networking, business methods, and consumer products.
Abby is a former Primary Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where she worked for nearly a decade. During her time at the Patent Office, Abby examined patent applications directed to mechanical devices, including jewelry and fasteners. She also worked on detail as a Training Assistant in the Patent Training Academy and as a Technology Center Trainer in TC 3600. While working full-time at the Patent Office, she obtained her law degree from Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
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- PATENT AGENT
- Registered Patent Agent
Aina Breen is a registered patent agent with a focus on preparing and prosecuting patent applications for major technology corporations. She learned about patent law through the Harrity Academy™ and was a member of the inaugural Patent Pathways™ program, where she received training in patent drafting and prosecution. Aina additionally has experience working in-house as a patent intern and a background in Mechanical Engineering.
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- ASSOCIATE
- Patent Attorney
Alexander Zajac is a patent attorney specializing in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His practice focuses on electrical and computer technologies, including telecommunications, computer networking and networking devices, computer hardware and software, encryption and security techniques, data analytics, business methods, semiconductors, and options.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, LLP, he worked with an intellectual property (IP) law firm in Washington, DC, where he drafted and prosecuted patent applications as well as assisting with opinions and litigations. He also worked at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with Magistrate Judge Alan Kay. While working at his former firm, Alexander attended Georgetown University Law Center.
Alexander completed two senior theses during his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University. The first, entitled Stability and electronic properties of two-dimensional MoS 2-based alloys, earned him honors in Physics. The second, entitled Trends in self-reported confidence in early high school physics, was completed as part of an exclusive science pedagogy program at the university.
Alexander is also passionate about giving back. He current serves as Vice Chair for the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section Pro Bono Committee, where he helps to organize pro bono work and resources throughout the organization. Alexander also chairs the Harrity Pro Bono Committee, providing free legal work for homeless veterans through the Homeless Persons Representation Project (HPRP).
Allison Howard is a patent agent specializing in patent preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She utilizes her intellectual property experience to aid clients in obtaining protection of their intellectual property. Allison has extensive experience preparing and prosecution patent applications related to wireless telecommunications, mobile and Internet-of-Things devices, computer software, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and customer relationship management software.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Allison worked in private practice specializing in patent preparation and prosecution for a variety of technologies. She has also worked as a project and program manager in both aerospace and renewable energy industries. Over the past years, Allison has volunteered as a math and science tutor for the I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County, assisting with English as a Second Language students.
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- Graphic Designer
- DIGITAL MARKETING ASSISTANT
Alyssa Montalvo is a graphic designer and digital strategist with diverse experience in engagement driven social media marketing strategy and unique content creation.
She graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2020 with a degree in Emerging Media, with a Graphic Design focus. Through her schooling, Alyssa mastered skills like mixed media design, motion graphics, digital design, and print design.
Before joining Harrity, Alyssa assisted large and small businesses on their social media strategy and initial branding systems, and worked on the digital media team at a Florida government agency.
Aside from work, Alyssa enjoys spending time with her family, film and music, wandering around an art museum, and traveling!
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- Support Staff Member
- Billing Coordinator
- BILLING SPECIALIST
Angelena Hitt is a Billing Specialist who has been at the firm since 2007. With over 15 years in the patent field and a background in accounting, Angelena is responsible for ensuring on-time client payments and maintaining impeccable records. Angelena previously handled accounts payable, accounts receivable, and billing at a small electrical contractors office. Her favorite part about Harrity is the work/life balance, which allows more time with family and friends.
Outside of her work at Harrity, Angelena enjoys interior design.
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- Patent Prosecution Specialist
Ayana Marshall, Ph.D., has over 12 years experience in the patent field. She is a Patent Data Analyst on the Harrity Analytics team and executes competitive intelligence analyses, portfolio analysis & categorization, and technology landscape analytics. She enjoys diving into volumes of seemingly random data and extracting meaningful value for clients' patenting, marketing, and business strategies. She loves the "Aha" moments!
She currently coordinates Patent Pathways, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as patent agents and patent attorneys. Ayana, a self-proclaimed "STEMinist", is committed to encouraging more women and racially diverse minorities to enter into study in STEM fields and to also become patent practitioners.
For almost a decade prior to joining Harrity, Ayana was a Patent Analyst and Technical Team Lead at CPA Global and Landon IP. She led the Electrical Communications, Computing and Business Methods, and Electrical Engineering & Physical Sciences Groups. While there, Ayana obtained extensive experience in patent research and technical analysis in telecommunications, remote monitoring, technical standards & protocols, medical devices, telemetry, and computing technologies.
She is a wife and a boy mom to 2 amazing children! As a native of the tropical island paradise of Trinidad and Tobago, she savors every opportunity to go to the beach, cook native dishes, and enjoy the warmer months of the year.
Ayana loves working at Harrity because she is able to maintain a healthy balance when it comes to
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- Founder and President of Adam Smith
On the latest episode of the Clause 8 podcast, Eli interviews Bruce MacEwen - the founder and president of Adam Smith, Esq. Bruce is recognized as the world's leading expert on the economics of law firms, has written thousands of articles on the subject, and provides advice to select firms about how to succeed in the changing legal landscape.
Chris Dawson is a registered patent attorney with over a decade of experience in patent preparation and prosecution, intellectual property litigation, and technology transactions. Currently, his practice focuses on drafting complex patent applications in the electrical, mechanical, and business method arts. In this role, Chris helps build the patent portfolios of some of the world's most innovative companies. He has extensive experience drafting patent applications directed to computer software, telecommunications, power generation and alternative energy, aerospace, LED and lighting, consumer electronics, and many other technologies.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Chris was a partner in a Midwest-based intellectual property boutique firm, where he represented clients through all phases of intellectual property procurement and enforcement. In addition to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, Chris litigated patent and trademark infringement actions, appearing before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, federal district courts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Prior to that, Chris had the honor to serve as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Nancy L. Moritz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit as well as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of one of the largest intellectual property boutique firms in the United States. Prior to law school, Chris served in the technology transfer office of a major research university, where he licensed the university's patent portfolio and helped form technology-backed startup companies.
Chris has been recognized for his expertise in intellectual property law by being named to the Super Lawyers Missouri & Kansas Rising Stars list four years in a row, a distinction awarded to only 2.5% of practicing attorneys. Additionally, he is the past recipient of the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar Award and the Peter D. Rosenberg Award in Patent and Intellectual Property Law.
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- ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
- Support Staff Member
- Office Administrative Assistant
Christian Bowersox is an Office Administrative Assistant and is responsible for a variety of imperative tasks that keep the firm running. He primarily works on complex drawings for patent applications, prepares Office Action Responses, and assists both attorneys and support staff with other relevant administrative duties as they arise. He has been with Harrity since early 2016, which is when he joined the patent field. Previously, Christian obtained experience in a variety of fields as a temp worker.
Outside of Harrity, Christian works as a youth dive coach, a role he has held for many years. His favorite part of Harrity is the work/life balance; the flexibility allows him to work around his coaching schedule, which is quite demanding during the summer. He also loves the team at Harrity: "The people here are tremendous, I've been working here almost 7 years and I've never come across someone here who I didn't get along with."
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- Support Staff Member
- Member of the Patent Prosecution Support Team
- PATENT PROSECUTION SPECIALIST
Clarissa Brandt is a member of the Patent Prosecution Support Team. Clarissa stumbled into patent law by accident and discovered a real passion for it. Serving as a Patent Prosecution Specialist at Harrity since 2020, Clarissa brought two years of previous patent experience and a few years of family law experience with her. She loves the marriage of English, Science, and Law that the Patent field allots and remains fascinated by the nuances of this field.
Outside of the office, she is an avid reader, runner, and foodie. If she isn't running a 5K, hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, or biking with her husband, she can usually be found catching up with friends discovering a new restaurant in her area of South Carolina. On rainy days she will likely be curled up in a chair with Taylor Swift and her cat or dog, reading anything she can get her hands on.
In the spring she volunteers as a coach for Girls On The Run at a local middle school. GOTR works to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident through running. Clarissa is passionate about empowering others and building up a new generation of able, independent women.
Clarissa loves the flexibility that remote working at Harrity provides. The people and culture of the firm also make it a joy to come to work everyday.
Daniel Jebsen is an intellectual property attorney specializing in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His practice focuses on telecommunications, mobile applications, computer networking, networking devices, routing, switching, network security, technical computing software, business methods, data analytics, sensors, semiconductor devices, optical security and performance, and low-level optical devices.
Dan is a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, and was a member of the Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Law Society.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, LLP, he worked as a law clerk with an aviation and aerospace litigation firm in Chicago, Illinois. Dan also worked as an engineer associate with a civil engineering consulting and design firm in Austin, Texas.
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- ASSOCIATE
- Patent Attorney
David Zuckerman is a patent attorney focused on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. David has personally handled hundreds of patent applications relating to telecommunications, computer software, artificial intelligence, medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and other technologies.
David is experienced in advising clients regarding the strategic development and management of their patent portfolios for both domestic and foreign matters. He has also participated in post-grant proceedings before the USPTO, prepared patent validity/invalidity opinions, and drafted patent infringement letters and claim charts.
Before joining Harrity and Harrity, David practiced at other intellectual property law boutiques and examined patent applications relating to rechargeable batteries at the USPTO. Prior to embarking on a career in patent law, David worked in an astrophysics laboratory designing and testing hardware and software components for a cosmic ray detector.
David graduated from the George Mason University School of Law with honors and was awarded the Giles Sutherland Rich Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property. During law school, he served as a member of the George Mason Law Review and president of the Intellectual Property Law Society. David obtained a degree in physics from The University of Maryland, where he made the Dean's List and participated in the College Park Scholars program.
David, an Eagle Scout, is involved with various children's charities including Children International and One Simple Wish.
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- New Applications Specialist
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- ASSOCIATE
- Patent Attorney
Derek Abeyta is a patent attorney with considerable experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications for clients, both in the United States and in foreign countries. Such patent applications relate to a variety of mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical fields, including telecommunications, extended reality systems, camera processing, power electronics, video coding, aerospace systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical device arts.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Derek practiced as a patent attorney at Quarles & Brady, LLP in Arizona. Previously, Derek worked as an IP associate for Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. and Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP. His law practice has focused on patent preparation and prosecution, as well as patent infringement and validity counseling.
Derek attended the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. He also served as President of the Arizona Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society and Co-Founder of Arizona's Journal of Emerging Technologies. Before working as an attorney, Derek worked as a project and control systems engineer at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix for two years, where he developed and tested commercial and military aircraft engines. While obtaining his electrical engineering degree, Derek also worked as a lab technician for Arizona State University's Tandem Beam Particle Accelerator.
Derek currently resides in Peoria, Arizona with his wife and kids. Derek enjoys playing softball, exploring the outdoors, and listening to music.
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- Associate
- Patent Attorney
Elaine Spector is a patent attorney with over 20 years of experience in intellectual property law. Her current practice consists primarily of prosecuting patent applications with a focus on electromechanical technologies.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Elaine worked in private practice for over 15 years handling various intellectual property matters, including patent application drafting and prosecution, trademark prosecution and enforcement, as well as litigating complex patent cases in federal courts. Elaine's extensive litigation experience provides her with a unique perspective in prosecuting patent applications.
Most recently, Elaine worked in-house for 6 years at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, where she managed over 500 matters in medical and software related technologies.
As an avid believer in giving-back, Elaine served for several years as a Board Member at Change the Conversation (Formerly No More Stolen Childhoods). She is also dedicated to improving diversity in the field of patent law through her numerous diversity leadership roles. Elaine hosts Driving Diversity, a weekly vlog sharing diversity-related tips and FAQ's, as well as quarterly webinars in a series called Diversity Dialogue as part of Harrity's Diversity Channel.
Eli Mazour leads the firm's patent prosecution team with a focus on helping large technology companies build valuable, high-quality patent portfolios in an efficient manner. In this role, he develops and implements best practices for managing workflow and innovative, data-driven patent prosecution strategies for reaching favorable results at the USPTO.
Eli personally has experience preparing and prosecuting hundreds of patent applications related to computer software, Internet and e-commerce, telecommunications, networking devices, electronic consumer products, and medical devices.
Although Eli is known for being able to successfully reach agreements with USPTO patent examiners for clients' most important patent applications, he is equally skilled at identifying and successfully utilizing alternative channels within the USPTO when that is not possible. In one such instance, the PTAB recently ruled in favor of one the firm's oldest clients after Eli argued in an Oral Hearing.
Eli also helps clients evaluate existing patent portfolios, identify strategic areas for patenting, and create processes for harvesting disclosures of patentable inventions. In addition, he has been involved with licensing negotiations, patent infringement investigations, clearance of products (freedom to operate opinions), and patent litigation. As a result, he is keenly aware of the pitfalls to avoid and opportunities to grasp during patent prosecution.
Eli is also the creator and host of the Clause 8 podcast, which features interviews with the most interesting members of the IP community. Due to Clause 8 and his previous track record, he is sought out by various technology companies, legal and business professionals, and media organizations for his insights on various patent policy developments, including legislative proposals and changes at the USPTO.
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- PATENT AGENT
- Registered Patent Agent
Emily Leach is a registered patent agent with experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in both the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions. She has drafted and prosecuted patents in the fields of wireless telecommunications, fiber communications, quantum networks, memory devices and storage systems, home security and automation, and medical devices.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Emily worked in patent preparation and prosecution at another firm. She also worked as a systems engineer in the aerospace industry. Over the past years, Emily has volunteered with Compassion International and Whiz Kids Tutoring.
George Howarah is a patent attorney with nearly a decade of experience in all facets of patent procurement and enforcement. George leverages his wide variety of experience to prepare and prosecute litigation-ready patent applications.
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- MARKETING & RECRUITING ASSISTANT
Hazel Jimenez is the Marketing & Recruiting Assistant at Harrity. She has a passion for all things diversity, and is heavily involved with many committees at Harrity, including the diversity committee.
Hazel's background is in web development and design, and digital media. Before joining Harrity, Hazel worked as an Assistant Project Manager at a commercial construction company while completing her degree at UCF.
Hazel enjoys spending her free-time with her two year old daughter Penelope and her close-knit family. She is a creative at heart and enjoys creating art in many different forms (digitally and organically). She loves to travel with her family, and can often be found on the west coast visiting her family back home in California. She is also an avid sports fan of all San Francisco teams (her hometown!).
Jafar Ali is an expert in the patent prosecution field. His practice primarily consists of preparing and prosecuting new patent applications. He also has experience working on complex patent prosecution matters, including reissue and reexamination proceedings, drafting letters of instruction to foreign counsel regarding the prosecution of PCT and national stage applications filed abroad, preparing opinions and analysis regarding patentability, infringement, and freedom-to-operate investigations, reviewing and responding to opposing counsel regarding cease-and-desist letters and other threatened litigation, and analyzing intellectual property issues involved in transactional due diligence.
Jafar has substantial technical expertise in many computer and electrical arts, including 4G/5G telecommunications, cybersecurity, data analytics platforms, blockchain, the Internet of Things, cloud infrastructures, virtualization, Linux environments, voice recognition, service-oriented architectures and other emerging service delivery models, open source licensing, software due diligence, object-oriented programming, service level management, and social media. Jafar also has patent experience in fields relating to financial instruments, auditing systems and other business applications, and governance, risk, and compliance.
Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Jafar worked for both Muncy, Geisler, Olds, & Lowe, P.C. and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He also served as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office where he examined patent applications related to operating systems, virtual machines, and computer networks.
James "Jamie" Olsen has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications for clients, both in the United States and in foreign countries. Such patent applications relate to a variety of mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical fields, including telecommunications, semiconductor processing, optics, engineering software, computer networking, packaging machinery, and Internet-related inventions.
Jan Owen has worked in the patent law field for over 13 years, drafting and prosecuting patent applications over a range of technologies. These technologies include telecommunications, machine learning, image processing, object detection, RFID devices, User Interfaces, augmented and virtual reality, and data security. Jan has also drafted and prosecuted patent applications across a variety of jurisdictions.
Prior to working in the patent law field, Jan worked for 17 years as an R&D engineer for Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies. As an R&D engineer, Jan helped develop one-box testers for mobile phone manufacturers in the cellular industry. More particularly, Jan worked as a Digital Signal Processing Engineer, and, as part of a team, helped implement real-time demodulation of over-the-air signals, integrate and support real-time data delivery across multiple subsystems for maintaining a wireless link, and develop algorithms for measuring signal quality. Her development experience includes embedded systems, real-time processing, multi-threaded environments, and multi-processor systems.
Over the past years, Jan has volunteered as a driver for Meals on Wheels, a program that provides hot meals to house-bound adults.
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- Support Staff Member
- PATENT PROSECUTION SPECIALIST
Jazmine Settle is a Patent Prosecution Specialist with experience in preparing and e-filing office action responses, IDSs, petitions, issue fees, and other patent prosecution documents for both U.S. and foreign clients. Jazmine first joined Harrity as a Receptionist in August 2015, before her promotion to Prosecution Specialist and Recruiting Assistant in October 2015. She transitioned into her current role as a full-time Prosecution Specialist in February 2018. Prior to joining Harrity, Jazmine worked at Noah Consultant LLC as a Customer Service Representative/Loan Processor and worked in Collections.
Jazmine's hobbies include crafting, interior design, and assisting family and friends with event planning. She also enjoys being outdoors with her son and traveling with family. What she loves most about Harrity and Harrity is the life work balance.
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- Support Staff Member
- PATENT PROSECUTION SPECIALIST
Jenny Rosenfeld is a Patent Prosecution Specialist. She joined the firm in February of 2019 and has 12 years of patent prosecution experience. Prior to getting into patent law, Jenny worked for Henry & O'Donnell assisting Kevin O'Donnell in managing all aspects of his bankruptcy law practice and training new employees who joined the firm.
When she is not shuttling her kids to soccer practices and games, she enjoys spending time outdoors and home improvement projects.
"Harrity attracts great people to work with. I love the team I get to work beside day to day and the flexibility offers the ability to balance work life and home life."
Jim Nuxoll specializes in drafting and preparing patent applications for our clients. Jim has over twenty-five years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including having served on Micron Technology's patent committee.
A listed inventor on nine U.S. patents, Jim has experience drafting patent applications covering various aspects in the field of semiconductors. These aspects include methods and systems drawn to semiconductor wafer fabrication, semiconductor wafer level testing, semiconductor wafer level packaging, multi-chip and system-in-package packaging semiconductor manufacturing tools, and memory system architecture.
Jim also has experience drafting patent applications related to telecommunications and various computing systems. As examples, Jim has drafted patents related to antenna structures, Fifth-Generation New Radio (5GNR) protocols, user equipment interfaces, and thermal-control systems.
Although Jim specializes in drafting and preparing patent applications, Jim has extensive experience prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. as well as non-U.S. jurisdictions. This experience lends itself to Jim including content in a patent application that stages the patent application for successful prosecution.
In his spare time, Jim is a volunteer for the First Tee of Idaho.
Jim Weixel is a patent attorney with over 20 years of in-house and law firm experience in patent procurement enforcement and in IP operations. Jim leverages his extensive experience to help clients obtain patents, improve IP operations, and implement IP strategies.
Jim began his patent career at Verizon after a 15 year career as an electrical engineer at BBN Technologies, an R&D unit of Verizon. As a patent attorney, Jim worked with BBN to transform it from an organization that rarely patented innovations to an aggressive patent filer. During Jim's tenure, BBN filed over 300 patent applications covering technologies such as speech recognition, computer networking, ad hoc wireless networks, quantum networking, image processing, signal processing, and acoustic sensors. BBN's robust patent portfolio was a significant value driver when BBN was sold to a venture capital partnership in 2004.
After leaving Verizon, Jim worked for Bowditch & Dewey, LLP. and Harrity & Harrity, LLP. preparing and prosecuting patent applications on behalf of clients. In addition, Jim worked with small to mid-size clients to implement effective patent programs to protect innovation and drive portfolio growth.
Jim returned to in-house practice at The MathWorks, Inc. where he managed the company's patent team. During Jim's tenure, MathWorks portfolio grew by more than 700 patents. In addition, Jim improved IP operations at MathWorks by implementing an improved invention disclosure process, deploying an intellectual property management system, and implementing a taxonomy for mapping patents to products sold by the company.
At Accenture, Jim served as the IP lead for several business units having combined annual revenue exceeding $20B. Jim was instrumental in helping Accenture build its patent portfolios in distributed ledger technology, Industry 4.0, and healthcare. In addition, Jim was involved with protecting innovations in other technologies, such as financial services, machine learning, process automation, artificial intelligence, biometric identification, and pharmacovigilance.
John Harrity has been involved in the patent field for 20 years. His current practice consists primarily of client counseling, and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. John has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in a wide variety of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical technologies. He excels at coming up to speed quickly on inventions and converting even the most difficult inventions into an understandable patent application. John's practice further includes filing PCT applications and prosecuting patent applications before the Patent Offices in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, and many other countries. In addition to drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and foreign countries, he also analyzes inventions for infringement and validity.
Prior to forming Harrity & Harrity, John worked as a law clerk at Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, LLP. He also was a Primary Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. At the Patent Office, John examined patent applications in the areas of computer hardware and software.
Prior to joining the Patent Office, John worked as an Electrical Engineer for 3 years at Cortana Corporation, where he participated in, and supervised Navy projects directed to advanced submarine technologies. His engineering experience included design and development of noise-cancellation technology, an automated submarine emergency system, and future submarine power systems.
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- ASSOCIATE
- Patent Attorney
Jonathan Goodman is a patent attorney specializing in patent preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has extensive experience in all phases of patent prosecution both in the U.S. and internationally and has represented clients in a range of technological fields including computer software, Internet applications, e-commerce, recommender systems, business methods, financial technologies, industrial control systems, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Jonathan also has substantial experience counseling clients on patent portfolio development and patent issues relating to non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate.
Prior to joining Harrity, Jonathan worked for almost a decade at a boutique intellectual property law firm where his practice focused on patent preparation, prosecution, opinions, and transactions. While in law school, he was an editor and executive board member of the University of Miami Law Review and served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jose E. Martinez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Before starting his legal career, Jonathan worked as a process engineer for a manufacturer of air treatment appliances.
Jorden Harrity, a rising senior at Centreville High School, meets with Fairfax Fire & Rescue Department personnel to express her appreciation. (Courtesy of John Harrity)
Jorden also approached her dad, managing partner of Harrity & Harrity law firm in Fairfax City, with an idea to not only thank the men and women at the Centreville fire station but to honor the nearby fire stations for each of the 56 employees of his law firm, who not only live in Virginia, but in more than two dozen other states.
Jorden started doing research to determine which local fire station was the one that would respond to each Harrity & Harrity employee's home across the country in case of emergency. After delivering pizzas to the Centreville fire station on Friday, Jorden is now scheduling deliveries to fire stations in states across the country.
Jorden, who is a member of service clubs at Centreville High School, said her father's efforts since his heart attack have inspired her to help others. She told Patch about her new appreciation for the value of community service and plans to continue working to help others during her senior year and when she heads off to college in the fall of 2021.
Joseph Lentivech is a patent attorney specializing in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. His practice focuses on electrical and computer technologies, including telecommunications, computer hardware and software systems, computer networking, search engines, optical systems, internet hardware and software systems, e-commerce, and business methods.
Joe is a former Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where he heard appeals from adverse examiner decisions in patent applications directed to electrical and computer-related technologies and business methods. Prior to attending law school, Joe served in the United States Marine Corps as an artillery officer.
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- New Applications Specialist
Docketing Specialist Julie Swartz added how appreciative she is of the firm's consideration and support of its staff.
"Not only does Harrity & Harrity encourage their employees to innovate and excel while on the job, but also in life. In addition to the benefit of working remotely, having a flexible schedule empowers me to focus my attention on my child's online schooling during typical working hours," stated Julie. "The firm has alleviated the problem so many parents are facing during these difficult times- to be an educator, a role model, and a dedicated employee - all within the confines of 9 to 5."
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