Patent Agent Profiles

Mark Protsik

Admissions
Patent Agent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1985

Certified Legal Specialities
Patents, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1985

Education
B. A., Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1982

Professionl Associations
Member, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 1998-current 

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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