COSIPS - Key Persons
Bruce D. Johnson has been in private practice for over 38 years. His clients have included Fortune 500 corporations, foreign high-tech, industrial and banking corporations, textile and fashion companies, real estate developers, construction companies, computer software companies, service companies, trading companies, shippers, retailers, beverage manufacturers and distributors, limited partnerships, individual investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals involved in a wide variety of commercial endeavors, and prominent law firms.
Mr. Johnson graduated from Carleton College in 1973 with a BA. in philosophy (magna cum laude). Mr. Johnson graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1976, where he was a published member of the Law Review.
Mr. Johnson began his career as an associate with the Wall Street law firm of Law firm Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in 1976, where he worked on the antibiotics antitrust case, the Eastman Kodak antitrust cases, and the Westinghouse uranium cartel case, along with providing antitrust counseling to Ford Motor Company and Mobil Oil Company.
Job Titles:
- Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
R. Neil Sudol has been in patent practice for over 30 years, with a technology emphasis in electronics, semiconductors, telecommunications, optics, mechanical devices including exercise equipment and systems engineering, and, more recently, medical devices, methods and instrumentation, business methods and software including telecommunications software and Internet software. Legal emphasis has included the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, including representing applicants before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the negotiation of technology transfer agreements and licenses, patent portfolio evaluation, and the structuring of patent and technology portfolios for start-up companies and mergers.
Education:
Mr. Sudol graduated from Lehigh University in 1975 with a B.S. in engineering physics (magna cum laude) and a B.A. in applied mathematics and experimental psychology (magna cum laude). Mr. Sudol graduated from New York University School of Law in 1983.
Mr. Sudol was with the firm of Karl F. Ross, New York, New York from 1977 to 1982 where he prepared patent applications primarily from foreign language disclosures in the electrical and mechanical areas, particularly including digital filters, multi-processor configurations, microprocessor controlled servo-mechanisms, hard-wired video games, extruders and dies/molds, hydraulic circuits and devices, and planetary gearing systems.
Mr. Sudol was associated with the firm of Kenyon & Kenyon, New York, New York from 1982 through 1987. At Kenyon & Kenyon, Mr. Sudol handled patent prosecution and opinion related work, and collaborated with other attorneys in handling patent, trademark and copyright litigation. During this time, Mr. Sudol worked in the technical areas of nuclear fuel rod removal assemblies, semiconductors, telecommunications, robotics, numerically controlled cutting and plotting machines, thermal cautery probes and associated energization electronics, computer aided tomography installations, disc diffusion and autoassay methods for determining drug concentration parameters, and surgical instruments including skin staplers.
From 1988 through the present, Mr. Sudol has practiced intellectual property law, including a period during which he was a partner at McAulay Fisher Nissen Goldberg & Kiel, LLP (1996-97). During that time, he has prosecuted patent applications and provided opinion work in the technical areas of electronics, telecommunications, software, including telecommunications and internet software and business methods, computerized exercise equipment, orthodontic appliances, computerized dentistry, fiber-optic and video endoscopes and associated instrumentation, laparoscopic and intravascular instruments, ultrasound scanners, ultrasonic cavitation devices, radiation-mediated diagnostic apparatus, intravascular and cardiac treatment methods, drug delivery systems, stents, intrapericardial balloon devices, computer assisted and robot implemented surgery, incisionless surgery, and computer assisted diagnostic techniques.