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Read MoreTim Dorney is the technical lead for the Specialty Services group of Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held. The Specialty Services team combines technical excellence, patent expertise, and business acumen to investigate complex systems with in-house corporate intellectual property (IP) groups, outside counsel, and financial institutions.
Dr. Dorney draws upon 35 years of experience as an inventor, patent agent, and licensing professional. His expertise includes defending and asserting patents in technical fields such as DRAM and non-volatile memory, analog circuits, image sensors, digital displays, microprocessor architecture, computer system design, Internet transactions, including shopping carts, and digital signal processing (DSP).
He has conducted extensive patent technical reviews and consulted on the technical aspects of enforcing patent rights. He has also overseen patent licensing and litigation activities, identified infringement, designed and executed tests to demonstrate infringement, created claim charts, presented findings, and negotiated settlements. His work spans North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
As a patent agent, he prepared over 100 patent applications and responded to national and international Office Actions. He has been involved in approximately 20 inter partes reviews and prosecuted ex parte reexaminations and reissue patent filings. Dr. Dorney began his career at Texas Instruments, where his work focused on memory product design, application-specific DRAM design, and video RAM development.
Dr. Dorney is a named inventor on 10 patents. He has presented his research internationally, including at the International Society for Optical Engineering, the International Terahertz Workshop, the IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, and the International Conference on Image Processing. He has authored refereed journal articles for the International Journal of High-Speed Electronics & Systems, the Journal of the Optical Society of America, and Optics Letters, among others.
Dr. Dorney is licensed to practice as a Patent Agent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University.
