Resumes of Professional Staff
George Wolken Jr., Ph.D.

A. Patent Preparation and Prosecution:

Prepared and prosecuted numerous US and foreign patents in various technical fields including, e.g.:

Semiconductor & Integrated Circuit Fabrication: Materials, processes and equipment related to low-k dielectric materials, copper damascene and dual damascene metallization, chemical-mechanical-planarization (CMP), electrodeposition, plasma etching, e-beam mask fabrication, memory & silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices, fabrication of sub-0.18 micron devices.

Optical Devices and Materials: Light-emitting-diode (LED and OLED) fabrication materials and processes, optical switches, circulators, add-drop switches, Faraday rotators, laser resonators, optical display materials, magneto-optic materials, electro-optic materials.

Medical Devices, Drug Delivery and Biomedical: Endoluminal stents and coatings thereon, laser surgical devices, insufflators, endoscopes, cryopreservation of viable biological materials.

Chemical Practice: Organic and inorganic synthesis and formulations for coatings, drug delivery and other applications, super-critical and solid-state synthetic methods.

Physics and Applied Mathematics: Quantum computing, superconductors and manipulation of fluxons, digital signal processing including local signal representations, image processing methods.

Materials: Fabrication and structure of novel materials, hot-isostatic-processing, near-net-shape fabrication, powder metallurgy, carbon processing, solar cell materials, solid state lasers. 

Environmental: Methods of recycling scrap vehicle tires with high-pressure water, recycling of paper mill sludge.

B. Litigation and Dispute Resolution:

Served as lead counsel, co-counsel, litigation support  and expert in various cases including patent litigation, state contract and tort litigation and in arbitration proceedings, resolving inventorship licensing and field-of-use disputes, disputes, licensing and field-of-use disputes with research sponsors and collaborators, resolving disputes involving federal funding agencies including Bayh-Dole matters and other disputes and also a broad spectrum of substantive and procedural matters arising in patent and patent-related litigation, most recently in 2009-2010  for a Silicon Valley technology company with 8-figure annual sales.

C. Opinions:

Prepared various opinions related to patent validity, infringement, right-to-use, design-around.

D. Transactional:

Negotiated and drafted licensing, technology transfer and joint venture agreements between US business entities and also various trans-national agreements in Taiwan, Russia and Switzerland. Negotiated intellectual property clauses in US Government contracts.

E. Intellectual Property Audit:

Developed and implemented novel five-step approach to intellectual property auditing.

2001 - present - Patent Attorney
Michaelson & Associates
Santa Clara, California

1999 - 2001 - Of Counsel
Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, LLP
San Jose, CA

1995 - 1998 - Of Counsel
Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur
Columbus, Ohio

1982 - 1995 - Sole Practitioner
Columbus, Ohio

Capital University Law School
May 1981 - J.D. cum laude

Harvard University
February 1971 - Ph.D. - Chemical Physics

Tufts University
June 1966 - B.S. summa cum laude - Chemistry and Physics

California (2000)

Ohio (1981)

U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (1981)

Various U.S. Federal Courts of Appeal and U.S. District Courts

Authored over 40 technical publications in professional journals including, e.g., Journal of Chemical Physics, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Surface Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Scripta Metallurgica.

Given over 50 invited lectures including technical seminars presented at Bell Labs, IBM, Exxon Research and Engineering, GE Corporate Research Lab., US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, USAF Aerospace Research Laboratory, numerous universities including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton and U. of Chicago, invited papers at numerous conferences including Gordon Research Conferences, American Chemical Society and topical meetings sponsored by US Air Force and US Army. (click here for list of lectures)

Responsible for technical and business performance of contract research groups of approximately 30 technical staff performing sponsored research. Typical research areas included:

a) Laser Physics including high-power pulsed lasers and laser effects, laser-generated plasmas and x-rays, x-ray spectroscopy, CW multi-kilowatt laser materials processing.

b) Optics including integrated optics, fiber optics, optical and electronic materials, sensors, forensic laser applications, optical inspection and measurement.

c) Xerography and Microfabrication including xerographic techniques, advanced imaging methods, applications of thick-film photoresists and management of the Battelle research group responsible for the commercial development of xerography previously spun-off to the Haloid (now Xerox) Corporation.

d) Chemical Physics including large-scale calculations of atomic, molecular and solid-state structure and electronic properties, spectra, reactions and dynamics, chemical properties of explosives and propellants, pattern recognition, computational drug design, development and application of computational and mathematical methods.

1974 - 1982 - Researcher, Associate Section Manager, Section Manager
Physical Sciences Research Section
Battelle Columbus Laboratories
Columbus, Ohio

1972 - 1974 - Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

1971 - 1972 - Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
Max Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung
Göttingen, Germany

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Illinois Institute of Technology teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in physical chemistry.

American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section

American Intellectual Property Law Association

California and Ohio State Bar Associations

Intellectual Property Law Associations of Silicon Valley

Licensing Executives Society

American Chemical Society - Section on Chemistry and the Law

American Physical Society

Representative patents: (click here to view)

Publications: (click here to view)

Invited Lectures: (click here to view)

Client references will gladly be furnished upon request.