Derek Meeker represents clients in post-grant proceedings at the USPTO and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is experienced with patent application appeals and review proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, reexaminations, and reissues. He also has represented patent applicants in various matters before the USPTO, particularly for complex electronics and computer related inventions, but also beyond electronics in mechanical systems such as turbocharger systems.
In his over 20 years of experience with patent matters, Mr. Meeker focused on post-grant proceedings, patent prosecution, appeals, and related analysis. Beginning with reexaminations and continuing with Inter Partes Reviews (IPR) and Post-Grant Reviews (PGR), he has obtained successful results before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, its successor, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has successfully transformed inventors’ ideas into valuable assets for his clients and performed non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate analyses. In addition, for clients of various sizes, he has established and revised internal procedures for acquiring intellectual property assets.
Mr. Meeker has always worked with the cutting edge of technology. Before entering the patent field, he worked for 7 years as an engineer, including work on ARPA research projects and developed optical communication devices for long haul telecommunication systems with ten times the capacity and five times the distance of existing technology. He is an inventor on patents covering such technology.
Mr. Meeker has experience with a broad spectrum of business entities and can understand his clients’ needs from their perspective. This experience comes from both working as an engineer and as a patent attorney. As an engineer, he worked for an established blue-chip company and as employee fourteen at a startup that grew to over one thousand employees. At the startup company, he not only designed products, but also established manufacturing lines and prepared quality assurance procedures. As a patent attorney, he has represented large international corporations, mid-sized local companies, small startups, and individual inventors.
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