About Us > Patent Attorney
John D. Gugliotta Esq.
John has been a patent attorney focusing on all intellectual property matters for decades. There is no substitute to 30+ years experience in the field seeing all forms of technology. John’s education, experience, and publications are below.
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Education:
Juris Doctorate, Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, OH
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Continuing Learning Education conferences including:
Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law & Policy
(1998-2014)
Annual University of Akron Symposium on Intellectual Property Law & Policy
(2015-2018)
Advanced Copyright Law Annual Review 2012
Bar Admissions:
United States Supreme Court
State of Ohio, Registration No. 0062809
Northern District of Ohio
Western District of Pennsylvania
District of Colorado
Additional admission pro hac vice for individual matters in the Northern
District of Florida, Southern District of New York, and Northern and
Central Districts of Illinois.
Professional Registrations:
United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 36,538
Professional Engineer, State of Ohio, Registration No. E-54503 (inactive)
Certified Patent Valuation Analyst
Legal Experience:
Founder and Managing Administrator
Patent, Copyright & Trademark Law Group, LLC (1993 to 2008)
Principal of Intellectual Property Practice Group
McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman (2013)
Of Counsel, functioning as Intellectual Property Practice Group
Quinn, Buseck, Leemhuis, Toohey & Kroto, Inc. (2015 to present)
Founder and Managing Administrator
Law Offices of John D. Gugliotta, P.E., Esq. LPA (2008 to present)
Filed, prosecuted, and managed most aspects in US and International Patent
filings, and trademark and copyright. Successful prosecution of over 3000
patent applications in chemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical, medical,
electronic, and business system areas.
IP counseling including monitoring and guiding of research at the idea stage
to determine avenues of patentability, marketability, licensability, and
enforceability; referral of inventions to joint venturers, OEM production
facilities and independent contractors for production and sale.
Patent surveillance services, including working with clients in monitoring
infringement of patents; determining the validity and scope of third party
patents in order to provide “right of use” opinions; counseling on related legal
and business options, including licensing, cross licensing, procurement of IP
rights in bankruptcy arena, business formation and liability risk management.
Transactional services, including, drafting and negotiating IP license
agreements, as well as secrecy, joint development, consulting and
indemnification agreements.
Business formation services, including business plan development, market
research, marketing plan development, and seed financing and startup
funding procurement.
Representative arts:
Remote optical sensors and signal transmission (US6040897,
WO99/56093); Remote tire pressure sensing and alarm transmission
(US6011463); Remote alert apparatus (US5684455, US568924);
Electronically sanitized medical devices (US6053380), Industrial and
commercial automation equipment (US6070485, US5722526)
Electronic appliances and goods (e.g. US6102935, US61439663,
US6147418, US6165040, US5999105, US5619872, US5646954);
Instrumentation and controls systems (US6152059, US5950293,
US5979602, US5553454, US5657003, US5736651); Vehicle wheel
alignment using laser calibration (US5760938); Remote Internet(TM)
appliance control and intra-communication; Home automation remote
monitoring and control; Digital conversion of analog handwriting input;
Voice activate appliance control; Weather radar imaging and
interpretation alarm; Voice and data transmission, communication, and
switching; Solid state voice recording and playback; Fiber optic signal
transmission and intercommunication for distributive process control as
well as optic signal amplification (repeater) and attenuation correction;
Electrochemical storage device of high specific power Method of
cleaning the area of polluted non-homogenous ground; Ceramic
material based on bismuth niobate substituted with zinc, processes for
deposition of SiO based insulator coatings on silicon substrates for
optoelectrical device applications.
Testimony/Expert Witness Experience:
Provided expert testimony before the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations
Court in the matter Telerman v. Telerman, DR-05-307477 (2006) concerning
valuation of intellectual property assets in a technology start-up.
Provided expert testimony before the United States District Court, Northern
District of Ohio in the matter Design Basics LLC et al v. Touchstone Builders
LLC et al., Case No. 5:16-cv-0887-BYP concerning copyright issues of validity
and copyrightability.
Provided expert testimony before the United States District Court, Northern
District of Ohio in the matter Design Basics LLC et al v. Touchstone Builders
LLC et al., Case No. 5:16-cv-0887-BYP concerning copyright issues of validity
and copyrightability.
Provided expert testimony before the United States District Court, Central
District of Ohio in the matter Design Basics LLC et al v. Forrester Wehrle
Homes, Inc. et al, Case No. 3:15-CV-00666 concerning copyright issues of
validity and copyrightability.
Engineering Experience:
Prior to entering the legal field involved as Systems Engineering and Design
Engineering for Fortune 500 companies with responsibility for supervising
proposals, projects, installations and startups for instrumentation and
controls concerning food handling, beverage packaging, and pharmaceutical
production facilities, included distributive process control, PLC integration,
data acquisition, and fiber optic communication. Various engineering
positions included:
Process Engineer for The Dow Chemical Company, maintaining
operations for world class plastics and pharmaceutical production
facilities
Senior Systems Engineer for Elsag-Bailey NV (Bailey Controls)
designing, configuring, installing, and starting up automated computer
control equipment for various clients in the chemical, paper, and
co-generation industries.
Office of Corporate General Counsel for Morrison Knudsen Corporation,
a major A/E firm, advising senior management on a wide range of
technical, engineering, and legal matters.