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Stephen Z.
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I'm a USPTO registered patent agent with an undergraduate degree in Physics, a Ph.D. in Biophysics, and many years experience with electronics, software, medical devices, and medical electronics as the former Chief Technology Officer of a medical electronics start up. I am the author/inventor of over 30 patents, 22 of which have issued. I have drafted and prosecuted patents in internet communications, computer databases, medical electronics, biochemistry, robotics, medical diagnostics,...
I'm a USPTO registered patent agent with an undergraduate degree in Physics, a Ph.D. in Biophysics, and many years experience with electronics, software, medical devices, and medical electronics as the former Chief Technology Officer of a medical electronics start up. I am the author/inventor of over 30 patents, 22 of which have issued. I have drafted and prosecuted patents in internet communications, computer databases, medical electronics, biochemistry, robotics, medical diagnostics, proteomics, cardiac catheters, software video analysis, software image synthesis, fingerprint analyzers, cryptography systems, and many other areas.
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oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Company Managers
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USPTO Patent Agent/Lawyer Needed to File Patent
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Electronics and software
18 yrs
4.0
2009
In addition to my work supervising electrical engineers and software engineers for over 18 years, I have also personally specified and written varoius complex software projects. I have published bioinformatics software, and have also written the assembly language software for a commerically produced, FDA reviewed, medical device.
Medical device technology
18 yrs
5.0
2009
As a biomedical/biophysics Ph.D., I have been active in the medical device industry at the executive level for most of my career, and I am familiar with essentially all technical, business, regulatory, and legal aspects of the area.
Patent drafting and prosecution
18 yrs
5.0
2009
As a former CTO, I have been drafting and prosecuting patent applications for my company, myself, and clients for 18 years.
Technical Management
18 yrs
5.0
2009
I have been running high performance R&D and operations groups for many years, and am used to dealing with complex and interdisciplinary porjects.
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2007
Patent Bar [60,144]
US Patent and Trademark Office
Registered Patent Agent
Employment History
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Title/Role
Description
01/2002
Present
Beckman-Coulter
Consultant / Independent Contributor
After acquisition of Avocet Medical by Beckman-Coulter, worked with Beckman-Coulter management and legal department to integrate technology with company, work on joint projects with Panasonic, and various matters related to intellectual property in both the US and Europe.
04/2007
Present
Patent Associate
Patent Agent / Independent Contributor
Enjoyed working with patents and IP so much (I have 30+ patents of my own) that I decided to take the US patent office patent bar exam, and become a patent agent. Since then I have worked helping others in patent applications in many areas including software (database, video processing), electronics (sensors, fingerprint scanners, instrumentation), biomedical devices (cardiac catheters, biosensors), and other areas (writing samples available upon request). Additional experience with freedom of action studies, infringement analysis, European Oppositions, PCT filings, and reexaminations.
04/1991
12/2001
Avocet Medical, Inc.
Chief Technical Officer / Executive
Chief Technical Officer of a VC funded biomedical electronics startup. Responsible for all technical activities, including managing patent portfolio, managing electrical engineers, software engineers, biochemists for a hand-held instrument to monitor blood-thinners. Product received FDA clearance and had good track record in production.
11/1985
04/1991
Johnson & Johnson
Director of R&D / Executive
Headed up operations and research departments developing novel point-of-care biomedical instruments for diabetics (blood glucose monitors). Products were highly successful.
07/1984
11/1985
Bayer Diagnostics
Senior Research Scientist / Team Lead
Worked in R&D, operations (manufacturing), and quality assurance debugging and improving quality of an early, microprocessor based, clinical diagnostics instrument.
07/1982
06/1984
Baylor College of Medicine
Assistant Professor / Manager
Assistant professor of pharmacology. Published papers in bioinformatics. Instructed medical students in immunology and pharmacology.
06/1980
01/1982
National Institutes of Health
Postdoctoral / Team Lead
Postoctoral research in monoclonal antibody technology. Publications in well respected journals.
Other Experience
Foreign patent filings
I have had good success obtaining foreign patent filings on other countries through the PCT system and in collaboration with foreign patent firms.
Scientific publications and grants
I am the author of a number of recent scientific publications in peer reviewed journals. Additionally, I have successfully obtained SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Education
From
To
School
Degree
Area of Study
Description
09/1974
06/1980
University of California, San Diego
Doctorate
Biophysics
Doctoral work in biophysics (biotech) with additional classes in computer science. 4.0 (top) GPA, publications in well respected journals.
09/1970
06/1974
University of California
Bachelors
Physics
Undergraduate degree in Physics with many courses in computer science, electrical engineering, biology, and chemistry.
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Material lifetime data abstraction device and method
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pat7564364.pdf - 1210.826KB
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07/21/2009
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Business Services > Legal
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Description:
Patent for an RFID electronic time-temperature indicator that can mimic the stability characteristics of any material of interest, and compress the material's thermal history into the small amount of data storage available in RFID tags.
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Mobile robotic system with web server and digital radio links
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pat7174238.pdf - 920.749KB
Completed:
02/06/2007
Category:
Business Services > Legal
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Description:
Computerized mobile robot with an onboard internet web server, and a capability of establishing short-range wireless digital radio connections to one or more external devices.
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Project Title:
Apoenzyme reactivation electrochemical detection method and assay
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7,166,208.pdf - 1729.07KB
Completed:
01/23/2007
Category:
Business Services > Legal
URL:
none
Description:
Electronic biosensor patent, based upon a technology that converts an immunochemical reaction into an electrical signal.
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