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Tom Streeter

Attorney

 

 

Overview of this Curriculum Vitæ

 

Key Skills

  • Business:

    • Keep the company out of legal trouble.

    • Get the company out of legal trouble when it comes knocking.

     

  • Patents:

    • Prepare and prosecute USPTO and PCT patent applications, especially for electrical and optical inventions

    • Supervise foreign patent counsel (especially JPO and EPO)

    • Manage a global portfolio of patents and applications to:

      • maximize effective coverage

      • minimize prosecution history estoppel

      • ensure compliance with deadlines

 

Work History

  • 2007-present: General Counsel

    Target Technology Company, LLC

    Irvine, California

    • Supervise outside litigation counsel.

    • Prepare and prosecute patent applications in USPTO and PCT

    • Supervise foreign patent counsel in the national phase in JPO, EPO, EPO members, and other national patent offices

    • Negotiate IP aspects of NDAs, purchase/sales contracts, and licenses

    • Technologies: Optical storage media (think: DVD), and sputtering targets used in their manufacture

     

  • 2002-2007: Retired

    Lifelong learning

    San Diego, California
     

  • 2001-2002: Patent Attorney

    Law Office of Tom Streeter

    San Diego, California

     

  • 1998-2001: Patent Counsel

    QUALCOMM Incorporated

    San Diego, California

    • Prepared and prosecuted patent applications in USPTO and PCT

    • Supervised foreign patent counsel in the national phase in JPO, EPO, EPO members, and dozens of other national patent offices

    • Technology: digital wireless communication networks

     

  • 1988-1998: Senior Intellectual Property Attorney

    The Boeing Company (formerly Rockwell International)

    Anaheim and Seal Beach, California

    • Prepared and prosecuted, to issuance, applications for over a hundred inventions in the USPTO

    • Prepared and prosecuted, to issuance, foreign patent applications for dozens of inventions, including:

      • preparation and international-stage-prosecution of PCT applications

      • supervision of foreign patent counsel in PCT national-stage applications in JPO, EPO, and EPO members

      • supervision of foreign patent counsel in direct-file national applications in JPO, EPO, and EPO members

    • Negotiated IP aspects of hundreds of NDAs, purchase/sales contracts, and licenses

    • Technologies included: digital signal processing, lasers, radar, infrared detectors, inertial guidance, telecommunications, superconductivity, and electronic packaging

     

  • 1986-88: Patent Lawyer

    Law Office of Allan R. Fowler (now deceased)

    Irvine, California

    • Associate of solo patent practitioner

     

  • 1979-85: Assistant Criminal District Attorney

    Dallas County

    Dallas, Texas

    • Board Certified, Criminal Law

    • Worked for Henry Wade, of Roe vs. Wade fame (US Supreme Court, 1973, well before I started)

    • Appeals ("No, Your Honor. He needs to do the 99 years in prison that the jury assessed him in the trial court. Here is why.")

    • Mr. Miscellaneous:

      • DA's representative to the Dallas County Bail Bond Board

      • Interstate Rendition of Fugitive Criminals (both incoming and outgoing; both trial and appeal)

      • Expunction of Criminal Records, both trial and appeal ("OK, Sheriff, I'll let him out of jail, and I'll give him an apology. But what do I do with the mug shot and the fingerprint card? And how do I get the mug shot and the print card back from the Texas Department of Public Safety, and from the FBI?")

      • Civil Forfeiture Appeals ("We cleaned out all of the inventory of Harry's Hemp Paraphernalia Store, and the trial judge backed us up, but now Harry is appealing.")

       

  • 1977-79: Attorney at Law

    Law Office of Tom Streeter

    Sherman, Texas

    • Criminal Defense

    • Divorce/Child-Custody/Support

     

  • 1975-77: Assistant County Attorney

    Grayson County

    Sherman, Texas (pop. 31,000)

    • Misdemeanor Prosecution

    • Juvenile-Delinquent Prosecution

    • Collection of out-of-state child support
       

  • 1969-71: Soldier

    United States Army (Patch on my shoulder!)

    • Company Armorer (1971)

      Co C, 2nd Bn, 11th Inf, 4th Infantry Division

      Ft. Carson, Colorado

      • secured and maintained pistols, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns (both hand-carried and vehicle-mounted), and recoilless rifles (and even a few bazookas!) for a full-strength mechanized infantry company (close to 200 men)

      • had about $110,000 (that's a hundred-and-ten-thousand 1971 dollars) of weapons under my lock and key, which the Company Commander deemed more secure in my hands than in the hands of any other man under his command. He accordingly:

        • made me his guidon bearer; and

        • wrote a nice letter which got me into law school.

    • Assistant Machine Gunner; Grenadier (1970)

      3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Co C, 1st Bn, 501st Inf (Geronimo!)

      101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles!)

      Thua Thien Province, Vietnam

    • Trainee (1969)

      Ft. Polk, Louisiana

      (D-4-2! Better than the best, Drill Sergeant!)

 

Education

 

Admissions to Practice Law

 

Writing Samples

  • My name appears as attorney of record on more than 150 issued US patents. On some of them, I did little more than ensure that the proper issuance formalities were observed; the real work had been done by some other patent attorney (who had since been assigned to "more pressing duties"). On the other hand, there are some issued patents out there where my name nowhere appears, since I was the patent attorney who had since been assigned to "more pressing duties". It all evens out.

     

  • Here are three US patents which I took from disclosure through issuance, thereby avoiding the complication of "more pressing duties" in both forms:

 

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