Santa Cruz Intellectual Property Office (SCIPO)
KATHARINA WANG SCHUSTER
Registered Patent Attorney
Notary Public
For corporate clients:
- Developing and evangelizing programs to encourage engineers to submit patentable inventions
- Assisting engineers in identifying patentable inventions
- Preparing, managing and prosecuting US and foreign patent applications
- Analyzing and responding to infringement claims and licensing offers
- Negotiating patent license agreements
- Advising and counseling employees and management on Intellectual Property issues
For independent inventors:
- Advising and counseling on Intellectual Property issues
- Identifying patentable inventions
- Preparing, managing and prosecuting US and foreign patent applications
- Analyzing and responding to infringement claims and licensing offers
- Negotiating patent license agreements
I have:
- Demonstrated ability to develop and drive policies and programs
- Effective written and verbal communications skills
I am:
A self-starter with initiative and ability to work independently
Licensed to practice before Patent & Trademark Office
Experienced in patent field since Feb. 1998
Work experience:
08/01-present Patent Attorney
- Prepared and prosecuted patent applications in various arts with an emphasis on high tech inventions such as blue lasers, micro gas turbine engines, biomechanical devices, biomedical devices, submicron CMOS devices, superconductors, and artificial intelligence.
- Successfully revived and obtained patents for unintentionally abandoned patent applications.
- Provided patentability opinions, assignments, prior art searches.
- Prepared and filed trademark registration applications.
- Worked with inventors of various scientific disciplines.
- Advised clients regarding intellectual property matters including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and licensing issues.
- Presented “Patent Wars” to patent practitioners in Silicon Valley, March 2003.
05/99-08/01 Patent Examiner, US Patent and Trademark Office, Washington D.C.
- Worked as a full time electrical engineer patent examiner in computer technology center 2100 while in law school, commuting nearly 4 hours everyday.
- Was a keynote speaker at the “Emerging Together” event in Technology Center 2100, USPTO, May 2001.
02/98-04/99 Legal Assistant, R&D Office, Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore, MD
- Assisted the senior patent attorney in prosecuting biotechnological patent applications as well as trademark and technology transfer related matters.
- Drafted inventor's guidelines to invention disclosure and general intellectual property related policy and guidelines.
For more information related to Intellectual Property, please visit my office’s website or send me an email (see below). Thank you.
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