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Patent Attorney
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Frank Bozzo graduated magna cum laude with an Electrical Engineering Degree from Brown University in 1985, playing seven intramural sports, and working as a disc jockey and sportscaster for WBRU, frequently cited by Rolling Stone and Billboard as one of the best radio stations in the country. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1990 from University of Virginia School of Law, where he was selected as a Dillard Teaching Fellow and taught legal research and writing, and was named to the National Appellate Moot Court Team.
From 1985 to 1987 Frank worked at IBM Corporation in Chicago as a Systems Engineer and Marketing Representative, receiving IBM management awards in technical support and marketing, and leading his branch office in marketing for five of the first six months of 1987 before enrolling in law school.
Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Bozzo joined Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, where he was engaged in IP litigation (Frank was third chair for plaintiff, as a newly minted attorney, at the trial of Markman v. Westview Instruments), and where he also prosecuted electrical device patents.
Mr. Bozzo thereafter spent a few years in academia, as a law professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he took Bill Clinton’s former faculty office and taught appellate advocacy, litigation drafting, legal research and writing, criminal procedure, and intellectual property courses.
Frank then joined the firm of Dorsey & Whitney, where he was a member of the recruiting committee for that firm, and involved in drafting and prosecution of patents relating to random access computer memory systems, medical imaging and language processing systems, among other technologies.
Subsequently, Frank was with the firm of Merchant & Gould, where his work included software and database management systems patent drafting and prosecution, infringement litigation appellate work, and international antitrust proceedings related to software patents.
Prior to joining Hultquist IP in June, 2011, Frank was an attorney of the Toler Law Group in Austin, Texas, where he was involved in drafting and prosecution of patents in the areas of nonvolatile memory systems, microprocessors, and commercial aerospace technologies, as well as managing the firm’s trademark practice.
Mr. Bozzo’s practice at Hultquist IP includes patent drafting and prosecution of patent applications in fields including digital electronics, semiconductor devices and processes, software and hardware computer/network technologies, materials science, medical products, mechanical/ electromechanical technologies, and medical products.