REDBRICK IP - Key Persons
Dr. Robinson is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and is admitted to practice law in the state of California. He specializes in advising corporations and universities in obtaining patent protection for their biotech, chemical, pharmaceutical, and medical device inventions. Having over ten years of experience in preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications, he regularly advises clients on their patent portfolio and patent strategy. In addition, Dr. Robinson also counsels on various business and licensing transactions by conducting intellectual property due diligence investigations, as well as in authoring opinion letters regarding patent invalidity and non-infringement.
Dr. Robinson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Rowan University, and his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Delaware. After performing post-doctoral studies in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry at the University of South Carolina and The Upjohn Company, Dr. Robinson worked as a medicinal chemist at several San Diego biotech companies before going into law.
Dr. Robinson received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School Of Law in May of 2002. While in law school, Dr. Robinson worked as a patent agent at Isis Pharmaceuticals and Heller Ehrman LLP. After graduating from law school, Dr. Robinson worked as Corporate Counsel at Pfizer Inc., as an Associate at Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP, and as Of Counsel at DLA Piper LLP before joining Tech Law LLP.
In addition to his admission to the USPTO and California bars, Dr. Robinson is also a long-standing member of the American Chemical Society, American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Licensing Executives Society.
Mr. Olsen is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice law in the state of California. He has experience preparing and prosecuting both utility and design patent applications in the high tech and mechanical/medical arts and continues to advise clients on patent prosecution strategies, patent portfolio development, and patent harvesting efforts.
Mr. Olsen has represented and handled patent matters for clients such as Jawbone, Seiko Epson, Mylife, Novartis, Chiquita, and Pegasus Solar, among others. He also advises clients on aspects of trademark law.
While working at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, an intellectual property law firm specializing in IP prosecution and litigation, Mr. Olsen prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the firm's Mechanical and Medical devices group. His areas of expertise included digital image processing, social media, medical devices, industrial equipment and systems, consumer products, automotive, materials processing and recycling, packaging, and energy-efficient technologies.
With particular expertise in design patent filing, portfolio strategy and enforcement, Mr. Olsen has unique and in-depth knowledge in procuring and enforcing design patents both domestically and internationally. This includes mobile app, display screen, and animated graphical user interface design patents, as well as design patents for traditional three dimensional products.
Before prosecuting patents, Mr. Olsen practiced general litigation and business law with mid-sized California based law firms.
Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Olsen worked in the tech and defense industries in both Southern and Northern California as an engineer. His work experience includes designing the integration of payload subsystems on commercial satellites and designing and sourcing dynamic components for high capacity tape and disk storage devices.
Mr. Olsen received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University, graduating magna cum laude. Subsequently, Mr. Olsen received a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association
- Patent Attorney
Mr. Patel is admitted to the State Bar of New York. He earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biology with honors from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Subsequently, Mr. Patel earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property Law as a Dean's Merit Scholar at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, NY focusing on Patent Law. He is currently pursuing his Masters (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University on a part-time basis.
Mr. Patel has worked on all stages of patent prosecution, including aiding in client counseling on the development of a concept into a product, patentability opinions, infringement studies, validity studies, patent filings for provisional and non-provisional utility applications. Mr. Patel has worked on patents in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science, chemical arts, biochemical compounds, mechanical devices and medical devices.
Prior to joining Redbrick, during law school, Mr. Patel worked as a Patent Attorney at Miskin & Tsui-Yip, LLP in New York, NY and as a Summer Associate at Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, P.L.L.C., in Pittsburgh, PA.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Patel worked at the University of Pennsylvania Environmental Medicine Lab and as a Paralegal at Thompson, Wigdor & Gilly, LLP in New York, NY and co-authored a chapter in Addictive Disorders in Medical Populations: Addictive Disorders in Nutritional Diseases.
In addition to his admissions, Mr. Patel is a member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Bar Association.
Mr. Horstmann is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice law in the state of California. He has extensive experience writing and prosecuting hardware and software patents. His areas of expertise include processor architectures, computer system architecture, memory technologies, semiconductor processing, databases, cloud computing, cloud networks, object-oriented programming, video systems, communication systems, cyber security, and mobile apps.
Mr. Horstmann earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego. He studied international and comparative law in Paris and European Union law in London. During his time in London, Mr. Horstmann worked for a British patent firm at the Inns of Court, where he performed patent and trademark prosecution and assisted barristers with trade secret litigation.
After law school, Mr. Horstmann was an associate with the firms of Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy in San Francisco and Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman in Sunnyvale. Prior to joining our firm Mr. Horstmann was in solo practice.
Mr. Horstmann earned his Master of Science, Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University. His post-graduate thesis set forth methods for applying knowledge of animal neurophysiology to problems in artificial intelligence, including creating a computer capable of understanding human speech. Prior to law school, Mr. Horstmann designed and programmed multispectral imaging systems for the Department of Defense, designed and programmed communication systems for computer graphics workstations, wrote word processing applications, and designed and coded database applications for a variety of businesses.
Job Titles:
- Partner & Patent Attorney
Mr. Rezvani is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice law in the state of California. He has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting both software and hardware patent applications and continues to advise clients on patent prosecution strategies, patent portfolio development, and patent harvesting efforts. Mr. Rezvani has represented and handled patent matters of clients such as Twitter, Apple, Oracle, NVIDIA, Accenture, Sony, Seagate, Symantec, and Spansion, to name a few. He also advises clients on aspects of trademark prosecution and law.
While working at intellectual property law firms specializing in IP prosecution and litigation, including Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP) and Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP, Mr. Rezvani prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the respective firms' Electronics and Software groups. His areas of expertise include social networking technologies, mobile apps, search engine architectures, cloud computing, interactive advertising, media content distribution, graphics processing, augmented reality technologies, regular and wearable displays, database management systems, computer system and processor architectures, digital signal processing, storage and memory technologies, semiconductor processing, telecommunications, encryption and encoding.
Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Rezvani worked in the tech industry with software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley, both as a software engineer and an electrical engineer. His work experience includes writing and maintaining complex Perl scripts to monitor large-volume semiconductor device testing yields. He also wrote tools in C++ to benchmark and improve the performance of wireless communication devices. Mr. Rezvani also has experience with semiconductor Failure Analysis techniques (such as Focused Ion Beam techniques, Emission Microscopy, C-Mode Scanning Acoustic Microscopy, Liquid Crystal Hot Spot Detection, X-Ray Radiography, and microprobe testing) as well as ESD and Latch-Up qualification testing.
Mr. Rezvani received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Subsequently, Mr. Rezvani received a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law.
With over 23 years of executive, advisory, and investment experience in the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMT) industries, Steven Marder currently serves as Chairman of Platform Purple (a digital video platform company), Director/Co-Founder for SLI Systems (a SaaS-based Internet search and marketing services company, NZX: SLI), and as an advisor for Aeria Games (a multi-national online and mobile games company) and AdMedia (an AdTech company). Steven has extensive experience in various tech areas including Mobile, Games, eCommerce, Publishing, Video, Ad-Tech, Cable and Over-the-Top (OTT) content, and Media and Entertainment, to mention a few.
Mr. Marder recently served as an Operating Partner and Industry Advisor for private equity firm Avista Capital Partners, where he focused on sourcing, developing, and managing buyouts and significant investments in Digital Media, Internet, and Communications companies in North America and Europe. Mr. Marder also served as a member of the Board of Directors for Avista portfolio companies including WideOpenWest (WOW!) and InvestorPlace Media, in addition to serving as Chairman/Co-Founder (formerly CEO) of Eurekster (an Internet social search technology company).
Prior to those roles, Mr. Marder served in senior corporate development and business development executive roles at major media companies including EMI Music and Tribune Company (Compton's NewMedia). He also co-founded and served as Managing Director, North America for Gramercy Venture Advisors (a multi-national merchant bank), co-founder and Chairman/CEO of eMemberDirect, Inc. (a development stage public company, formerly PetPlanet.com), Director of Globalbrain (an Internet search company sold to NBCi) and as a founding shareholder and board advisor of DeliveryAgent (a leader in providing TCommerce services for top media/entertainment companies).
Mr. Marder is a graduate of St. John's School of Law, Columbia College/Columbia University and Horace Mann School. Heis also an attorney and member of the State Bar of New York and California and Member of The Recording Academy (Grammys). Steven resides in Berkeley, California with his wife and two kids.
Varun Bhardwaj focuses his practice on strategic patent portfolio development. Mr. Bhardwaj has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a variety of technology areas, including software systems, digital signal processing, consumer electronics, chemicals, medical devices, biotechnology, and clean technology.
Mr. Bhardwaj graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, Mr. Bhardwaj was involved in many organizations and activities, including Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal, Hastings Intellectual Property Association, and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.
Mr. Bhardwaj worked in research & development engineering, developing chemical detectors for identification of toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents present in an ambient environment. His graduate school research involved studying noninvasive treatments for low back pain using cross-linking agents to augment the collagen cross-linking in intervertebral discs of the spine. His undergraduate research involved intracellular drug delivery through the use of ultrasound and heat shock of skin cells.
Imagination is a quality of an inventor, because invention is a leap of the imagination from what is known to what has never been before.