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Paul Kriz
Partner
Juris Doctorate, B.S. and M.S. Electrical Engineering
Email: Paul.Kriz@Chapin-IP-Law.com
Paul is a Partner at Chapin Intellectual Property Law,
LLC. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced law for several years at a
large firm specializing in patent and trademark prosecution. He has
counseled clients with respect to both U.S. and foreign patent
applications, and has prosecuted over two hundred electronics, hardware,
software, business method and physics-based patent applications. The
subject technologies of the applications have varied greatly and include:
software and business methods, electronic devices and circuits, power
systems, wireless communications, networks/Internet, data storage,
opto-electronic systems, lasers, instrumentation and semiconductors. In
addition to patent prosecution, he has provided legal opinions and has been
involved with intellectual property due diligence, litigation and trademark
prosecution.
Prior to entering the legal field, Paul worked as an
electrical design engineer for several companies. He has extensive
practical engineering work experience in design, development and testing of
analog and digital electronics and in software development. While at United
Technologies (UTC) Hamilton Standard, he was involved in the design and
development of fault tolerant, redundant engine control systems for
commercial aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus. After UTC,
Paul worked as an engineer at Electronic Retailing Systems, a startup
company that developed products to provide instant price information to
shelf-edge displays in retail stores. Additionally, Paul led the electronic
design group at General Scanning Laser Systems Division. At General
Scanning, he managed the development of electronic interfaces for memory
repair, thin-film, and thick-film laser-based manufacturing equipment.
Combined, his practical engineering experience tallies to over 10 years.
Paul attended the University of Connecticut and earned a
B.S.E.E. degree with an emphasis in electro-magnetic theory and
semiconductor design. In addition to the B.S.E.E., he holds a M.S.E.E. from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from the New England School of
Law. He is a member of the Bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is
admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
He is also an active member of the Boston Patent Lawyers Association.
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Protecting Advanced Innovations in:
Software
Computers
Electronics
Internet
Communications
Business Methods
Physics
Electro-Mechanical
Mechanical
Medical Devices
Materials Science
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Westborough Office Park
1700 West Park Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
Phone: 508-616-9660
Fax: 508-616-9661
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