Potomac Law Group is a full service law firm committed to innovation, excellence, and professionalism. We use a modern business model that eliminates much of the costly overhead and over-staffing traditionally associated with large law firms. Through our innovative approach to law firm management and use of technology, we are able to offer clients exactly what they are seeking: sophisticated legal advice from knowledgeable attorneys at attractive rates.As a patent attorney, I am licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in all patent matters, and am a licensed attorney in Virginia. I frequently counsel clients regarding obtaining patent protection for their inventions, targeting infringing products, and avoiding infringement. I have extensive experience with a broad variety of technical fields, including medical devices, acoustics, signal processing, software, heating and cooling systems, content delivery, and wireless communications.

My primary focus was patent prosecution but I also represented clients in post-grant proceedings including inter partes review, covered business method review, and reexaminations of issued patents. In this role, I have advocated for patent owners defending the validity of their issued patents. Representative cases (by technology area): Wireless communication technology:IPR2013-00568, IPR2013-00569, IPR2013-00570, IPR2013-00571, IPR2014-00557, and IPR2015-00054. I personally presented oral arguments on behalf of the patent owner in IPR2013-00569 and IPR2013-00570.Electronic trading technology:CBM2015-00061, CBM2014-00114, and CBM2013-00027. I personally drafted a motion to amend in CBM2013-00027 which was partially granted after rehearing.Ex parte reexaminations 90/011,618 and 90/011,603.Inter partes reexamination 95/002,032, where I personally presented oral arguments on behalf of the patent owner at the PTAB.Medical devices:IPR2015-00103, IPR2015-00104, IPR2015-01947, and IPR2015-01948.Oilfield services and logistics:Inter partes reexaminations 95/001,391, 95/001,392, 95/001,395, 95/001,396, 95/001,397, 95/001,700. I personally presented oral arguments for 95/001,395 and 95/001,397 at the PTAB.

Oblon Spivak is a premier law firm specializing exclusively in intellectual property law. As a Patent Agent registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office I prosecuted patent applications through all stages of the patent examination process and leveraged many personal interviews with patent examiners to obtain favorable results for clients.

Performed work in the Distributed Sensor Systems group, focusing on DARPA and ONR research projects directed to active and passive sonar applications.

Extensive experience with B2B and B2G eCommerce and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects, focused on Government procurement and ERP systems.

Thesis research focused on distributed collaborative networks under former Associate Director Howard Shrobe.

Implementation and testing of user interfaces for controlling complex CNC machines.