Patrick Burns Email & Phone Number

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

What’s your big idea?We can help protect, defend, strategize and sell it.At McGarry Bair, we’ll get smart about the critical path of your business so we can help you be strategic about your product and your plan. This way, we can give you practical as well as legal advice.• Draft patent applications from a variety of technology and disciplines.• Communicate with the United States Patent and Trademark Office counterparts on behalf of clients regarding a plurality of topics such as office action responses, requests for continuing examination, appeals, and Examiner interviews.• Conduct Patentability and Clearance Reports related to early invention business strategies.• Formulated patent filing and claiming strategies in accordance with business interests.

• Formulated litigation strategy for a trademarks dispute in the Northern District of Illinois Federal Court.• Reviewed fact discovery disclosures for supervising attorney in order to develop anticipated opposition strategy and exploit weak evidence.• Drafted memorandum on benefits and detriments of motions to dismiss, stay counterclaims, strike evidence, strike expert testimony, compel answers, reconsider, and modify scheduling orders.• Actively participated in a Federal Court settlement conference, representing client litigation facts and legal analysis to a Magistrate Judge.• Concluded thorough legal inquiry into copyright and trademark issues for potential clients.

Chicago, Il

• Formulated bid and proposal contract language and sales presentations for potential clients.• Achieved contractual compliance with service agreements by managing related team.• Operated in management roles at multiple Fortune 500 client headquarters during international systems rollout procedures, ensuring project success and client approval. • Managed design, configure, build, and testing teams comprised of 40+ individuals (U.S. and India-based) during 3+ year project to modernize and improve product lifecycle management.• Utilized industry-leading best practice guidelines to design and improve 250+ business process and technical workflows for complex, FDA-regulated manufacturing and development activities.• Traveled to Bangalore, India to arrange, train, and operate a programming team that can be supervised remotely.• Experience in programming: C, C++, Java, SQL, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Infor’s Optiva PLM Software Suite, Camstar Insite Manufacturing Execution System, and Websphere Business Integration• Recognized twice with IBM Service Excellence Award (2007, 2008)

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Designed and completed Acceptance Test Procedures for prototype aeronautical equipment.• Identified failure causes and reported effects for production circuit boards.• Collected experimental data and aided in creating proposals implementing a Digital Visual Interface.

J.D., Graduated Cum Laude, Focus On Intellectual Property - Patents

Activities and Societies: CALI Award(s) for highest grade in Trial Advocacy, Executive Board Member - Student Bar Association (SBA).

Bachelors Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: WVFI Student Radio Station