Mr. Featherstone is a director in the firm and is the Practice Group Leader of the firm's Electronics Group. He also chairs the firm's Nanotechnology Practice.
Mr. Featherstone specializes in patent preparation and prosecution where he counsels a wide range of clients from start-ups and emerging growth companies to billion dollar multi-national corporations. He emphasizes the interaction between business practice and intellectual property to help his clients leverage their IP and create shareholder value.
In addition to strategic patent portfolio creation and management, Mr. Featherstone prepares opinions (including patentability, state-of-the art, infringement and validity opinions), licenses and other technology agreements. He also performs IP audits, due diligence investigations, re-examinations and interferences. Based on his extensive experience in patent law, including having served as PTO examiner, Mr. Featherstone has been sought out to act as an expert on patent law issues.
Mr. Featherstone has experience in the following technical fields: semiconductor devices and manufacturing, photolithography (including maskless and immersion techniques), nanotechnology (inorganic semiconductor, such as nanowires, quantum dots), MEMS, ultra wideband communications and radar, computer architecture (including RISC microprocessors), computer and memory architectures, computer graphics, video imaging, digital signal processing, application programming interfaces, graphical user interfaces, business methods including e-commerce/Internet applications, database applications, control systems, electromagnetics, fiber optics, piezoelectrics, and discrete digital and analog circuits.
Mr. Featherstone has served as a judge for the Small Times "Best of Small Tech Awards" for two consecutive years. He is an associate editor for Nanotechnology Law and Business.
Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Mr. Featherstone was a patent examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office where he examined applications in the field of semiconductor devices.
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