Marc S. HanishMr. Hanish’s practice is primarily focused on preparing and prosecuting patent applications in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This includes meeting with clients to develop a cost-effective patent strategy that accomplishes their business goals, discussing technical specifics of the technology with inventors, preparation and editing of the patent application, filing the patent application with the USPTO, reviewing and responding to office actions issued by the USPTO, all the way up through the eventual issuance of the application as a patent. Mr. Hanish is also involved in counseling on issued patents, including investigations into competitor applications to determine infringement/invalidity risk, and the preparation of opinion letters. Mr. Hanish has been practicing patent law since graduating law school in 1997. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Hanish received a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has industry experience as a computer programmer. Mr. Hanish spent two years as a patent litigator at the law firm of Thelen Reid and Priest. This litigation experience aids in the construction of patent applications that not only serve present-day business needs but also can survive the fine scrutiny of future litigation. Mr. Hanish’s experience includes representing some of the world’s foremost computer and software companies, including Apple, Cisco, Sun, Yahoo, Intel, and LSI Logic, as well as prominent universities such as Cal Tech and the University of Washington. Mr. Hanish has spoken at numerous events, as well as written numerous publications on patent law, including Patent Practitioners Beware: The Federal Circuit Releases a Manifesto, 9 Nevada Lawyer 18 (Mar. 2001), which was cited as an authority in an Amicus Curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court.
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Patents Mr. Hanish has worked on:
6,426,759 Confer Software, Inc. APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CHANGES OF COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL PROTOCOLS
6,430,619 Cisco Technology, Inc. VIRTUAL PRIVATE DATA NETWORK SESSION COUNT LIMITATION
6,567,944 Sun Microsystems, Inc. BOUNDARY SCAN CELL DESIGN FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE I/O CELLS
6,578,168 Sun Microsystems, Inc. METHOD FOR OPERATING A BOUNDARY SCAN CELL DESIGN FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE I/O CELLS
6,598,066 Sun Microsystems, Inc. FAST CARRY-OUT GENERATION
6,606,094 Intel Corporation METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT IMAGE STRETCHING
6,636,230 Sun Microsystems, Inc. METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION OF CAPS OF SMOOTH LINE SEGMENTS
6,636,231 Sun Microsystems, Inc. APPARATUS FOR APPROXIMATION OF CAPS OF SMOOTH LINE SEGMENTS
6,654,017 Sun Microsystems, Inc. SMOOTHING OF LINE SEGMENTS ON A COMPUTER DISPLAY
6,654,952 Sun Microsystems, Inc. REGION BASED OPTIMIZATIONS USING DATA DEPENDENCE GRAPHS
6,675,338 Sun Microsystems, Inc. INTERNALLY GENERATED VECTORS FOR BURNIN SYSTEM
6,683,626 Sun Microsystems, Inc. FOCUS-BASED SCROLLING
6,698,004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. PIN TOGGLING USING AN OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
6,728,313 Intel Corporation METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MPEG II DEQUANTIZATION AND IDCT
6,728,738 Sun Microsystems, Inc. FAST LIFETIME ANALYSIS OF OBJECTS IN A GARBAGE-COLLECTED SYSTEM
6,895,434 Cisco Technology, Inc. SHARING OF NAS INFORMATION BETWEEN POPS
6,910,133 Cisco Technology, Inc. REFLECTED INTERRUPT FOR HARDWARE-BASED ENCRYPTION
6,912,350 Intel Corporation DVD SUBPICTURE RENDERING WITHOUT LOSS OF COLOR RESOLUTION
6,920,498 Cisco Technology, Inc. PHASED LEARNING APPROACH TO DETERMINING CLOSEST CONTENT SERVING SITES
6,982,978 Cisco Technology, Inc. PER USER AND NETWORK ROUTING TABLES
7,013,426 Commerce One, LLC EXCHANGING AND CONVERTING DOCUMENT VERSIONS
7,043,553 Cisco Technology, Inc. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING INFORMATION ACCESS
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