Patent Agent Profiles

Mark Protsik

MARK PROTSIK has been a registered patent agent since 1985. He received a B.A. (Physics) degree in 1982 from the University of California (Berkeley). His work relates to the preparation and prosecution of patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has included inventions in the fields of optical devices and systems, measuring and testing apparatuses, lasers, semiconductor fabrication processes, and solid state logic devices. Mark joined the firm in 1984.

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ED BAWOLEK

ED BAWOLEK, PE, Ph.D. is a registered patent agent with experience in semiconductor processing, integrated circuit design and test, and metallurgical processing. Ed has over 25 years of manufacturing, research and development, and management experience. He has extensive expertise in optical scattering and characterization, electromagnetics, circuit design (including both digital and analog applications, with an emphasis on power distribution and signal integrity, manufacturing automation, and precision current measurements (in the femto-ampere regime). Eds semiconductor process expertise includes photolithography, plasma etching, and defect reduction engineering, both as an individual contributor in research environments, and a group leader in manufacturing. He has twenty-seven issued U.S. patents, primarily in the field of digital imaging applications. Ed is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the Optical Society of America where he serves as a reviewer for referred publications. Ed holds professional engineering registrations in the State of Arizona for both Metallurgical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Ed has been a registered patent agent since 2000. Ed has been providing patent preparation and related services exclusively to Schneck & Schneck since 2004.

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Christopher M. Hall

CHRISTOPHER M. HALL received a BA (Physics) degree from Reed College (Portland, Oregon) in 1978 and a MS (Electrical & Computer Engineering) degree from the University of California (Santa Barbara) in 1981. From 1981-1997, he worked as an integrated circuit design engineer at National Semiconductor, in the following groups: Microprocessor, Microcontrollers, Embedded Technologies, Interactive Multimedia Group, LAN, Tools & Methodologies, Home Connectivity Products and Corporate Design Automation. In addition to experience defining and designing integrated circuit logic, architecture and microarchitecture, from entire chips down to blocks, sub-blocks, transistor circuits, library cells and input protection, he also has expertise in instrumentation, fault-tolerant computing, failure analysis, feasibility studies, methodology and working knowledge in areas of synchronous, asynchronous, digital and analog circuits, layout, testing, multichip packaging, semiconductor processing and fabrication. He is named as sole inventor on 6 and co-inventor on 8 patents in the semiconductor IC industry and coinventor on one patent in solar energy. He enjoys writing, teaching, inventing, innovation, reading and numerous hobbies.

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Ed Arkin

ED ARKIN, a registered patent agent, joined the firm as a technical specialist in 2007. His work has included software and internet implemented inventions. Ed was original educated as a chemist, but quickly gravitated to the software field. Ed has over fourteen years experience designing and writing enterprise software systems as Manager of Information Systems for an international business enterprise. Ed has a BA in Chemistry from Brooklyn College, and a Paralegal Certificate from UC Berkeley from 2007. When not searching relevant references, drafting patent or drafting remarks to Office Actions, Ed enjoys the outdoors, water sports, woodworking, and building fishing rods.

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