Robert Tarcu
Associate
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Robert Tarcu

Associate

ROBERT (ROB) TARCU is a registered patent attorney in the Electrical Patent Prosecution practice group. He has drafted and prosecuted applications for Fortune 500 companies, financial firms, domestic and foreign companies, and start-up businesses in a wide array of technologies, including image processing, audio and video processing, communications, computer software, and business methods. Mr. Tarcu regularly corresponds with in-house counsel, individual inventors, and Patent Examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to ensure the effective prosecution of patents.

While earning his law degree, Mr. Tarcu worked as a summer associate at an intellectual property law firm in New York, as a patent law intern at a Minnesota-based intellectual property firm, as a patent law extern at DEKA Research and Development Corporation in New Hampshire, and as a summer associate at Oblon, Spivak. In addition, he was a teaching assistant for patent prosecution courses at Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Prior to earning his law degree, Mr. Tarcu worked as a Patent Examiner at the USPTO, examining patent applications in the image processing and pattern recognition arts.

Mr. Tarcu is fluent in Romanian.

Board affirms Examiner's rejection because reference disclosed issuing SQL commands to a database to obtain statistical information
Friday, January 27, 2012

In Ex Parte Brunet (Appeal No. 2010-000122 of Application No. 10/822,092), one of the issues before the Board was whether the Examiner erred in rejecting Claims 1 and 2 under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as unpatentable over Rignell (U.S. Patent Publication No. 2001/0053688), Marran (U.S. Patent No. 6,549,770), Lawrence (International Publication...

Board Sustains Examiner in Ex Parte Fletcher as Modification of Prior Art is Obvious, Predictable for Benefit of Increased Speed
Friday, September 02, 2011

In Ex Parte Fletcher (Appeal No. 2009-007416 of Application No. 11/002,930), the issue before the Board was whether the Examiner erred in rejecting Claims 1, 3, and 4 under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as unpatentable over Kocher (U.S. Patent Publication No. 2003/0061150) and Official Notice.  The Board affirmed the Examiner’s rejection.

Ex Parte Freeman
Thursday, July 21, 2011

In Ex Parte Freeman (Appeal No. 2009-011632 of Application No. 11/235,344), one of the issues before the Board was whether the Examiner erred in rejecting Claims 1-8 under 35 U.S.C. §101.  In this case, the Board affirmed the Examiner’s §101 rejection.

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