Mr. Thompson's practice encompasses all facets of intellectual property. His patent prosecution experience includes all of the electrical and mechanical arts including: computers (hardware and software), medical devices, medical diagnostic methods, semiconductor manufacturing, nuclear reactors, telecommunications, turbines (gas and steam), PBX switching, CCD cameras, toothbrushes, automotive parts, and many others. Mr. Thompson also has been involved with trademark matters of all kinds, namely filing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign trademarks, including applications to register product configurations, and contested inter partes administrative proceedings before the Trademark Office (oppositions and cancellations). He also has handled ex parte appeals to administrative tribunals of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including oral arguments.

Mr. Thompson has been active in litigation both as counsel for plaintiffs seeking to protect their intellectual property and as counsel for defendants accused of infringing the rights of others. He has appeared in Federal district courts across the United States, as well as in Federal courts of appeal. Mr. Thompson has been lead trial counsel and has also been the prevailing attorney in several reported decisions on novel points of law. In addition, Mr. Thompson has counseled clients in many industries in the licensing of their intellectual property, and in strategies for maximizing the worth of that property, and has represented several prominent entertainers in litigation and other intellectual property matters.

Education

- Columbia University (J.D., B.S. combined degree 1978) (Electrical Engineering) - New York University

• Post-graduate law courses in Trade Regulation

Admissions

- New York - U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York - U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Professional Activities

- American Bar Association - New York Intellectual Property Law Association - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Accolades

- Martindale-Hubbel – “av”