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Safet is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Safet is the head of the firm's patent prosecution group. He focuses on complex patent litigation, post-grant exparte and inter-parte Patent Office proceedings, patent procurement and portfolio management, including preparation and prosecution, technology transfer, and client counseling. He has experience in a wide range of technologies, including electronics, electrical, software, telecommunications, business method, medical and mechanical arts. He represents a wide range of clients, spanning from small start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations.
Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Safet accrued more than 16 years of experience at the PTO, where he examined patent applications, reissue applications and reexamination applications related to television and facsimile technologies. He also trained and supervised patent examiners in the examination of patent applications, reissue applications and reexamination applications in a variety of technologies, including television, facsimile, telecommunication, radio communication, photography, lithography, projection systems, measuring and testing (including medical device testing and bio-imaging), and database and file management systems.
He has more than 18 years of experience in reexamination practice. Safet has trained and led teams in the handling and examination of high-profile reexamination applications. He has also served as an expert in reexamination practice where he oversaw and supervised the handling and examination of all reexamination applications in a work group of more than 100 examiners.
Areas of Practice | 1) Intellectual Property, 2) Intellectual Property Litigation, 3) Patent Litigation, 4) Patents, 5) Patent Prosecution and Counseling, 6) Water and 7) Government Contracts |
Law School | American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 2004 |
Education | City College of the City University of New York, B.E., 1989 |
Bar Member / Association | District of Columbia Bar Association, New York State Bar Association |
Most recent firm | McGuireWoods LLP |
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