John J. Stickevers

John is a partner at Bromberg & Sunstein and a registered patent attorney. He specializes in patent prosecution and patent portfolio development for both domestic and foreign clients. By working with the company's management and engineering staff, he attempts to educate and instill an appreciation for the importance of intellectual property protection into the corporate culture.

Experience

• John has focused on helping start-up companies develop an IP strategy for leveraging their assets.
• Co-author of amicus briefs on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association in both the Federal Circuit and in the U.S. Supreme Court (in support of certiorari) in in Re Bilski case.
• John spends a substantial portion of his time performing clearance investigations and drafting written opinions regarding infringement and validity issues with respect to competitors' patents.
• He has prosecuted patent applications in various technical fields including network design, digital signal processing, software design, medical devices, digital film compression algorithms and associated integrated circuit design, microwave circuitry, phase locked loops, digital circuits, remote access servers, power conservation circuits, analog-to-digital converters, graphics accelerators, integrated circuit packaging, interactive cable television, data storage software, automated digital video editing, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.
• During his graduate studies at Columbia University, John conducted research and development in the areas of scalable transmission of digital audio in wireless environments, physical modeling of musical instruments and VLSI chip design of systolic arrays.

Professional and Community Involvement

• John is currently the co-chair of the Computer Law Committee of the Boston Patent Lawyers Association.
• John has lectured on various IP issues for groups including MCLE, BPLA, IEEE and LES.

Honors

• In 2006, John was named by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston magazine a "Rising Star" in the field of intellectual property in Massachusetts. This designation is limited to the top 2.5 percent of attorneys who are under the age of 40 or who have been practicing 10 or fewer years, as chosen by their peers and through independent research.

Bar and Court Admissions

• New York, 1995
• Colorado, 1998
• Massachusetts, 1999
• Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office