Eric Shelton focuses his practice on patent prosecution, having prosecuted patent applications in a wide range of technologies related to the electrical, computer and mechanical arts. He is experienced in counseling clients for post-grant proceedings before the USPTO such as reissues and reexaminations. He has also brought technical and patent prosecution-related expertise to assist with a number of patent negotiations and litigations.
During law school, Eric served as a legal clerk in the Intellectual Property Law Division of the Office of the General Counsel for NASA. He conducted legal research on federal technology transfer law, with a focus on licensing procedures for NASA-owned patents and intellectual property rights agreements with international organizations.
After obtaining his B.S. in Computer Science, Eric worked as an engineer for numerous corporations. He started at a FORTUNE 100 company developing and maintaining C++ code for the development and testing of storage subsystem microcode. Eventually he went on to be a senior development engineer for a high-speed free-space laser communication project at the University of California at Berkeley EECS Department, working to integrate new research with off-the-shelf technologies. He also worked for a small company directed at delivering commercial applications of wireless mesh networking sensor technology, focusing on VHDL development of radio and microprocessor modules, microcode development and testing FPGA and first silicon prototypes.
9/21/2011 - Sweeping Changes to Patent Law Enacted Under America Invents Act