Overview

Patent attorney Joseph Valentino, Ph.D., focuses his practice on patent prosecution, strategic counseling and analysis, and patent portfolio development and management.

Joseph counsels clients at every stage of their life cycle, helping them evaluate patentability, avoid infringement, and maximize the value of the intellectual property assets. He has substantial experience in producing patentability, patent infringement, and patent validity opinions, and drafting patent applications to withstand competitor challenges. He also represents clients in post-grant proceedings, including inter partes review proceedings, ex parte reexaminations, and reissue applications.

Joseph’s professional, educational, and research backgrounds enable him to understand and advise on a broad array of technical fields including:

Semiconductor devices and fabrication

Computer software and hardware

Quantum computing and quantum electronics device fabrication

Organic electronics, image processing, optics, and electro-optics (e.g., lasers and light emitting diodes)

Interferometry

Electricity and magnetism

Solid-state physics

Telecommunications

Virtual and augmented reality

Medical devices

Microelectromechanical systems

Microfluidics

Nanotechnology

Joseph earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where later, as a graduate student, he researched thermocapillary flow as a novel actuation technique for microfluidic applications.

Professional associations

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

New York Intellectual Property Law Association

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Bar Association