Tom Streeter
Patent Attorney

Serving the Inventive Community of Southern California

 

I prepare and prosecute patent applications in: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and via the Patent Cooperation Treaty, in most foreign nations. I have experience in physics, optics, electronics, and material science. I have been admitted to practice law in: the State of California; and the United States Patent and Trademark Office; since 1987.     If you've invited me to speak before your organization, here is a suitable introduction. 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: 6,130,923, 5,956,514, and 5,854,677.            Here is my curriculum vitæ. I began my patent law career as a Texan. I am a graduate of The University of Texas School of Law in Austin, a top 20 law school. My undergraduate degree is a BS in Physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at Dallas, the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies. Since moving to California, I have practiced patent law for decades: in-house, for a couple of Fortune 500 corporations, and for a small high-tech company; as an associate in a small law firm; and as a solo practitioner.   My fees are reasonable.   Questions? Contact me