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Our Professionals
Thomas F. Meagher | Peter
M. Emanuel | Dan Goldberg | Frank Liao
| Scott Bovino | Eamon J. Wall | Mathew J. Yang
Joseph J. Laks | Chris Pattillo | Craig Drachtman
Tom Meagher focuses his practice on patent litigation, patent
licensing, and patent prosecution management, and has substantial
experience working with universities and with electronic, computer,
telecommunications, medical device, and healthcare technology
companies.
He has assisted General Electric Company, Princeton University, and Technicolor,
among others, in patent licensing. Tom has managed extensive patent prosecution
work for research institutions, including Princeton University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, University of Southern California,
and Sarnoff Laboratories. He has handled patent litigation for Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft, Intel, Hitachi, Home Shopping Network, Boston Scientific, Agilent Technologies,
Conner Peripherals, Nan Ya Plastics of Taiwan, and Wang Laboratories, among many others.
Tom’s career spans more than 35 years, including serving in the patent departments of
RCA Corporation and ITT Corporation, and nearly two decades with Kenyon & Kenyon and
five years with Duane Morris LLP.
He is a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the New Jersey Intellectual
Property Law Association, and has lectured and written on patent issues facing universities.
Tom has a B.S., Electrical Engineering, from Carnegie Mellon
University, and a J.D. from Catholic University of America,
Columbus School of Law. Tom is admitted to practice law in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, numerous federal district courts, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Peter Emanuel focuses his practice on patent infringement analysis,
licensing, and U.S. and foreign prosecution.
His career spans more than 40 years in the patent departments
of RCA Corporation and General Electric Company, where he held
successive management positions, retiring as Senior Vice President
and Patent Counsel of GE Trading and Licensing. Since retiring
from GE he has been engaged in the private practice of law,
specializing in patent infringement analysis and licensing.
Peter’s patent infringement analysis and licensing activities
cover a wide variety of technologies including consumer electronics,
broadcasting, video and image compression, hybrid electric vehicles,
and cellular communications that have earned more than $1 billion
in patent royalties.
After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical
engineering and prior to law school, he was for 7 years a design
engineer for RCA where he worked on automatic test equipment
and the rendezvous radar for the lunar excursion module.
Peter is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law
Association, was on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia
Intellectual Property Law Association, and held several offices,
including President of the International Intellectual Property
Law Association. He has also lectured and written on patent
issues for the American Intellectual Property Law Association
and joint meetings of the Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia
Intellectual Property Law Associations as well as to business
groups.
Peter has a B.S., Electrical Engineering, from the City College
of New York, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern
University, and a J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law. Peter
is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Indiana. He is
also registered to practice before the United States Patent
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Dan Goldberg focuses his practice on patent infringement analysis,
patent prosecution, licensing, and trademarks.
His career spans more than 25 years. After earning an undergraduate
degree in electrical engineering and prior to law school, he
was an electrical engineer for almost a decade at two technology
companies, Dialogic and Singer-Kearfott, where he worked on
video, voice, and data systems, as well as guidance and navigation
systems.
Dan’s patent experience at law firms included substantial work
on wireless systems, video compression and distribution systems,
medical devices, microscope image processing systems, electrical
components, and GPS tracking systems. He was also Director of
Intellectual Property Operations at Sarnoff Corporation where
he focused on IP acquisition and divestiture, technology and
patent licensing, product clearance, and commercial and government
contracts. Dan also managed a large Sarnoff patent portfolio
covering digital television encoding/decoding, real time video
processing, electrostatic discharge protection, automotive vision
technologies, and digital watermarking, as well as a large Sarnoff
trademark portfolio.
Dan is a member of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law
Association and has lectured and written on patent issues including
co-authoring “Intellectual Property Agreements: Are You
Managing Your Rights?” in the prestigious Chronicle of Higher
Education. Dan has a J.D. from New York University School of
Law, and a B.S., magna cum laude, Electrical Engineering,
from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He was a member of Phi
Omega Epsilon and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor
Society).
Dan is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office.
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Frank Liao focuses his practice on patent licensing, infringement
analysis, patent portfolio management and monetization, and
patent prosecution.
Frank was previously Vice President - U.S. Patent Operations
at Technicolor/Thomson Licensing. Frank has successfully conducted
patent assertion and licensing activities globally. He was in
charge of patent pools (e.g., MPEGLA, Premier BD, Japan Uldage,
HDMI, etc.), digital TV, and PC/Laptop licensing programs that
generated more than $2 billion of patent royalties.
In addition, Frank has extensive experience and proven success
in worldwide patent prosecution. He has prosecuted patents with
granted claims which have been licensed, asserted in litigation,
or deemed essential to industry standards and patent pools.
He has also defended patents in various appeal and invalidation
proceedings in the United States, Europe, China and Japan.
Frank is fluent in Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese. He has a
B.S., Electrical Engineering, from Cornell University (with
Distinction), an M.S. in Systems Engineering from University
of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School - Newark.
Frank was a member of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor
Society, Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society,
and a co-inventor of U.S. Pat. 5,590,186 - System and Method
for Redirecting a Telephone Call.
After graduating from Cornell, he worked as an engineer for
GTE and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was an associate of Orrick,
Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York.
Frank is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York,
and registered to practice before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
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Scott Bovino has over 20 years of experience leading legal and
business teams to capitalize on technical innovations and business
opportunities in a global environment. He specializes in strategizing,
drafting, and negotiating licensing and other business arrangements
to successfully monetize patents and other intellectual property.
Scott has been Vice President and General Counsel for 1WorldSync, Inc. since May 2013. He serves as a
member of 1WorldSync’s nine-person Extended Executive Management Team, and is responsible for all aspects
of legal compliance for both the company's U.S. entity and German sister company.
Scott is also a Legal Consultant on Assignment to Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese supplier of
world-class organic light emitting diode (OLED) materials and technologies. He works closely with Idemitsu
Kosan to draft and negotiate agreements with business partners and customers on a global basis, and to
advise and consult with the company on various IP and business strategy matters.
Prior to first joining Meagher Emanuel in 2012, Scott was Vice President and General Counsel for more
than 9 years at Universal Display Corporation (Nasdaq: OLED). In addition to having overall responsibility
for all legal matters at Universal Display, he negotiated and finalized major license agreements with
Samsung, Motorola, LG Display, AU Optronics, Konica Minolta, Panasonic, Pioneer, Osram/Sylvania, PPG
Industries and DuPont.
From 1994 to 2002, Scott was an associate with the firm Morgan,
Lewis & Bockius, LLP, in Philadelphia, PA.
Scott also clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit for the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
He has a J.D. with Honors from The University of Chicago Law
School. He also has an M.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University
and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College.
Scott is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. …
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Eamon Wall focuses his practice on patent application preparation and prosecution,
patent reexamination and licensing/litigation; patent-related opinions; patent portfolio
construction/management; trademark procurement and enforcement; trademark opposition,
cancellation and related actions; trade secret and other IP related business counseling.
Eamon has extensive technical experience in electrical, computer, mechanical, chemical processing
and related arts, including communications, consumer electronics, network architecture
and management, content management and delivery, optical and wireless networking, digital
television/video processing and compression, electronic program guides and other user
interaction technologies, test and measurement devices, signal processing and conditioning
circuitry, analog and digital circuitry, semiconductor equipment and devices, power conversion
and generation, computer software and hardware, semiconductor processing, chemical processes,
business methods and various other technologies.
Prior to joining Meagher Emanuel, Eamon was a founding partner of Wall & Tong, was Managing
Partner at Patterson & Sheridan, LLP, and Patent Counsel for General Electric Corporation’s
RCA licensing operation.
He received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden and a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Monmouth University.
Eamon is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York, and registered to practice
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Mathew Yang engages in a broad intellectual property and business practice, with an emphasis in
patent litigation, infringement analysis, licensing, and monetization. Leveraging his background
in accounting and finance, he has advised and served as trial counsel for both Fortune 500 companies
as well as small- and medium-sized businesses.
Mathew has litigated a variety of intellectual property cases, including patent and copyright
infringement, as well as complex cases involving contract disputes, business torts, unfair competition,
trademarks and false advertising. His patent litigation, infringement analysis, licensing, and
monetization activities cover a wide variety of technologies including consumer electronics,
cellular communications, mobile devices, power management circuitry, data encryption, flash memory
systems, e-commerce technologies, hardware design, medical devices, social media ecosystems, securities
trading systems, and optical media.
After completing his undergraduate degree with a B.A. in business economics at the University of California,
Los Angeles, Mathew practiced for six years as a certified public accountant with KPMG, LLP and BDO
USA, LLP. He analyzed complex business transactions for technology driven and consumer-facing companies,
and managed the audits of publicly traded company 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K filings, and private company
financials. He earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin School of Law. Mathew is admitted to
practice law in New York and Wisconsin and works in New Hyde Park, New York.
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Joe Laks focuses his practice on patent licensing, infringement
analysis, and U.S. and foreign patent prosecution.
His career covers more than 35 years in the patent departments
of RCA Corporation, General Electric Company, and Thomson Licensing.
At Thomson Licensing, he served as Vice President U.S. Patent
Operations, where he headed their patent department in Princeton,
NJ, with over 25 patent attorneys and agents reporting to him.
Joe was also Senior Advisor to Licensing for infringement analysis
and patent negotiations.
Joe’s patent activities during the course of his career span
the Asia-Pacific, European and North American regions, in licensing
programs that generated revenues exceeding $1 billion dollars.
Joe has a B.S., Physics, from Michigan State University, an
M.S. in Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a J.D.
from The George Washington University Law School.
After earning an undergraduate degree in physics and prior to
law school, he was an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics
Command in Fort Monmouth, NJ, where he worked on lasers and
electro-optics.
Joe is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Virginia.
He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent
and Trademark Office.
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Chris Pattillo focuses his practice on patent prosecution as well as patent assertion and licensing activities.
He also has experience with post-grant review proceedings, including AIA inter partes review. He has
externed for the Honorable Christopher J. Burke and the Honorable Sue L. Robinson at the U.S. District
Court for the District of Delaware.
Prior to entering law school, Chris worked for Energizer Holdings, Inc./Playtex Manufacturing, Inc.
as a Manager in R&D and as a Process Engineer from 2002-2012. He also worked as an engineer for
Procter & Gamble from 1999-2001.
Chris has a Masters and a B.S in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic University. He
earned his J.D. from Drexel University School of Law in May 2015. Chris is admitted to practice law
in Pennsylvania (New Jersey Bar admission pending).
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Craig Drachtman focuses his practice on patent prosecution and patent licensing.
Craig was an Intellectual Property Extern at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and drafted patent
applications and responses to Office Actions as a summer associate at law firms over two summers during
law school. He has performed pro bono work for the New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Craig has published two articles: Note, Taking on Patent Trolls: The Noerr-Pennington Doctrine’s Extension
to Pre-lawsuit Demand Letters and its “Sham” Litigation Exception, 42 Rutgers L. Rec. 229 (2015); and Do
“Let’s Play” Videos Constitute Fair Use?, Rutgers Intellectual Property Law Society Blog (2014).
Craig received both a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics, cum laude, in May 2012 from Brandeis
University, and was awarded the Steinberg Prize in Physical Science with Interest in History. He earned
his J.D. in May 2015 from Rutgers School of Law – Newark, receiving a Dean’s Merit Scholarship each year.
Craig is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent
and Trademark Office.
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