Patent Law Practice Center

Burt Magen

Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

Mr. Magen is a partner at Vierra Magen. He has a degree and experience in technology, and counsels clients in a variety of advanced technologies. Mr. Magen focuses on intellectual property and related business matters, including the development, acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property rights in patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. His areas of technology are computer architecture and organization, networking technology, internet technology, computer software, computer graphics, operating systems, database software, computer peripherals, system and device level integrated circuits, semiconductor materials, devices and fabrication processes, television/video and medical equipment.

Thomas L. Creel

Law Offices of Thomas Creel

Thomas L. Creel practiced over 30 years as a first chair intellectual property litigator and counselor.

He was head of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Area as a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP; co-chair of the Patent Litigation Group while a partner at Kaye Scholer, Fierman, Hayes and Handler and a senior litigating partner at Kenyon & Kenyon. During government service, Mr. Creel handled administrative patent infringement claims against the U.S. government, participated in patent infringement litigation in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and was responsible for export clearances for certain types of important information. Recognized for his capabilities in the area of patent litigation, Mr. Creel has also been appointed by several federal district judges to serve as a mediator to attempt to resolve disputes, and as a Special Master to provide proper patent claim construction, supervise all pretrial discovery and recommend rulings on summary judgment motions.

Lisa A. Dolak

Professor of Law at Syracuse University

Professor Dolak’s research interests include issues at the intersections of patent law and judicial procedure, patent law and the media, and patent law and legal ethics. Her current research projects focus on media coverage of the U.S. patent system, the effects of the evolving inequitable conduct doctrine on the practice of patent law, and a reconsidered theory of subject matter conflicts. During a recent sabbatical leave, she served as law clerk to the Hon. Paul F. Michel, now Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and currently serves as a member of the Federal Circuit’s Advisory Council. She teaches courses on patent law, Internet law, and practice and procedure in the federal courts. She is a registered patent attorney and a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. She is a regular panelist on “The Ivory Tower Half Hour”, a public affairs discussion program airing Fridays at 8 p.m. on WCNY-TV.

Robert C. Faber

Ostrolenk Faber LLP

ROBERT C. FABER has been an intellectual property lawyer for over forty years. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. He is a partner in the New York City intellectual property law firm of Ostrolenk Faber LLP.

Mr. Faber is the author of the “Sixth Edition of Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting” and was the author of the Third, Fourth and the Fifth Editions of “Landis on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting,” which the Sixth Edition replaced. This is a prominent text in the patent field.
Mr. Faber had been a member of the faculty of Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”) Patent Bar Review course for more than twenty years, which focused on the Patent Agent’s Examination and claim writing. He also is a faculty member of PLI’s Advanced Claim and Amendment writing and Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution courses since their inception, and has lectured on intellectual property and patent matters for PLI, the Bureau of National Affairs, and other organizations.

He has been recognized annually in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law and in the 2007 and 2009 publications of the Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Practitioners. This is a peer recommendation listing of several hundred patent practitioners throughout the world, published by Managing Intellectual Property and Euromoney Institutional Investor, PLC.

Robert Hulse

Fenwick & West LLP

Mr. Hulse’s practice focuses on prosecuting patent applications in a wide range of technical fields, including electronics, computer software, telecommunications, audio/video media, electromechanical and medical devices, and business methods.

His practice also involves intellectual property counseling, such as evaluating risks from third-party patents and assisting in efforts to design around those patents. Serving as an independent expert evaluator for a major patent pool, he has significant experience determining the essentiality of patented technology to a number of standards bodies’ specifications. Mr. Hulse has also analyzed intellectual property issues for numerous due diligence and litigation matters.

In addition to providing legal services for his clients, Mr. Hulse is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he teaches patent drafting and prosecution.