Iftekhar Mirza, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, US

San Diego, California, US

San Diego, California, US

Managing global patent portfolio related to wireless communication and electronics hardwareAdvising technical and business stakeholders on patent mattersSetting and implementing a patent strategy for Dexcom’s innovationsWorking with in-house patent professionals in managing patent harvesting and prosecutionInteracting with patent offices throughout the.

San Diego, California, US

• Built IP assets for the company by working closely with the company’s engineers and scientists and routinely holding patent harvesting meetings
• Actively managed patent portfolio (domestic and foreign), external relationships with outside counsel and collaborators
• Drove invention capture, patent application drafting and claims mining projects
• Worked on patent prosecution (domestic and foreign), freedom-to-operate, infringement and validity analyses

• Work closely with and interview company's engineers and product development teams to draft provisional and non-provisional patent applications
• Perform preliminary freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments to advise product development teams of potential clear pathways and possible prior art roadblocks
• Manage and work with outside counsel with respect to patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution and maintenance activities.
• Perform search to remain up-to-date on industry trends and activities that impact company’s products and their associated intellectual property rights

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• Work with firm's clients and shareholders in all aspects of the patent practice
• Review invention disclosure and interview inventors
• Draft patent applications
• Assist in prosecution of patent applications: review office action and prior art, amend claims, draft response to office action and participate in examiner interview
• Draft strategy letters to advise domestic and foreign clients
• Work on various technologies related to electrical and computer engineering field: mobile devices, telecommunications, computer software, data encryption, various network and communication systems, display and imaging.

• Narrowband Perfect Absorber for Microbolometer Imaging System
• Prepared a business proposal and awarded funding for a next generation THz imaging system
• In collaboration with Lumilant Co., design narrow THz frequency band perfect absorber
• Design material with high loss based on metamaterial structures
• Design tunable material with frequency sweeping features
• Fabricate and demonstrate a sensitive THz imaging system

Newark, DE, US

• Compressive Sensing Hyperspectral Imaging System
• Prepare quarterly reports for sponsoring agency and update PI’s on progress on a weekly basis
• Prepare time-schedule to meet the deliverable deadlines
• Prepare SBIR/STTR/BAA grant proposals for funding solicitation (including budget)
• Budget allocation and scheduling for the project
• Supervise graduate students

Newark, DE, US

• Design of Phase Modulators based on Metamaterials
• Designed and fabricated tunable split ring resonators to demonstrate phase/ amplitude modulation functionality in Radio Frequency wavelength
• Put together a bench-top setup with lens-horn antenna and a two-dimensional monopole antenna scanning system to experimentally demonstrate phase only modulation with metamaterials
• Processed and analyzed data using VNA and customized MATLAB codeEmbedded Antenna Project
• Designed and modeled antennas and metamaterials using Ansoft High Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) software
• Carried out the evaluation and assessment of the designed structures for practical applications

Phd, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelors Of Electrical Engineering (With Distinction), Electrical Engineering With Minor In Mathematical Sciences