JOSEPH E. WRKICH, an electrical patent lawyer, is an attorney in the firm's Electrical Patent Prosecution practice group. He appears regularly before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and oversees the prosecution and management of international patent applications in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Australia. He counsels on patent portfolio management for foreign clients in the U.S. market as well as U.S. clients filing international applications. He also counsels clients on issues regarding patent infringement, patent validity, patent pools, and reexamination proceedings.
Mr. Wrkich prosecutes and drafts patent applications for diversified innovations, including video conferencing equipment, telecommunication technologies, satellite communication systems, electronic books, mobile communication devices, medical imaging devices, digital signal processing devices, printers, photocopiers, semiconductor manufacturing, and signal compression and encoding schemes. He also has extensive experience prosecuting patents and advising clients in areas of consumer electronics, semiconductor devices, compact florescent technology, and renewable and alternative energy technologies, including wind turbine and fuel cell innovations.
Mr. Wrkich is particularly skilled at drafting claims and prosecuting patent applications that are directed towards patent pools. Mr. Wrkich has experience evaluating patent claims and preparing patent pool submissions in the DVD and H.264 technologies. He also regularly reviews and advises clients on patent pool licenses.
Understanding and recognizing the applicability of a broad range of technologies, Mr. Wrkich identifies applications, advises his clients on how they can use the innovations beyond their originally intended purpose and works with them to create a network of patents to cover their particular technologies and uses.
Mr. Wrkich has conducted research and published articles in the area of electron scattering and often lectures to clients and attorneys on such topics as anticipation and inherency, obviousness, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, false marking, and inducing infringement.
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