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Mr. Parikh's practice focuses on domestic and foreign patent prosecution, patent infringement litigation assistance, and patent validity and infringement analyses for complex electronics technologies, as well as on other intellectual property issues involving patents, trademarks, copyrights and the Internet. Mr. Parikh also counsels clients on securing, maintaining and licensing intellectual property assets including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Mr. Parikh's technical expertise encompasses a broad array of complex electronics technologies in the areas of telecommunication systems, medical electronics, modern microprocessor architectures, digital photography, system-level designs, digital communications, computer software, MEMS devices, robotics and image processing, spectral imaging, and storage device technologies. Mr. Parikh also has substantial experience in securing patents on inventions related to business methods.
Mr. Parikh is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Parikh is not an agent, employee, or partner of our firm, but he serves as a freelance, independent legal consultant to our firm.
Eric D. Ruka is Of Counsel. Before joining the firm, Mr. Ruka was an associate at Pennie & Edmonds LLP in New York City, where his practice focused primarily on patent matters. He has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the mechanical arts, including electromechanical, medical, and optical devices, as well in the chemical, materials, computer software, Internet, and business method fields. He has prepared patentability and freedom-to-use opinions on proposed client technologies, and has performed due diligence investigations of company patent portfolios. He has also participated in patent litigations involving mechanical, electromechanical, medical device, and business method technologies.
Mr. Ruka is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr. Ruka is a member of the New York Bar. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Kurt Ruka is a Technology Specialist with the firm. Mr. Ruka performs technical research and various support work for preparing and.