Two engineers who went to law school.

Patent work asks an attorney to understand a machine well enough to describe it in language that holds up under an examiner and, later, under a competitor's attorney. Both of our attorneys trained as mechanical engineers first.

Maurice Williams

Managing Partner

Maurice spent seventeen years at the United States Patent and Trademark Office reading applications and deciding which ones deserved to become patents. He also served over ten years as Mechanical Representative for the Patent Office Professional Association, the organization representing the examining corps.

Working a docket teaches how an examiner spends the limited time an application gets. It also teaches which arguments land and which read as boilerplate. Maurice carries all of that into drafting, so the application anticipates the examination it will receive.

His practice covers patent searches, drafting and prosecution, and client counseling on whether to file and what a portfolio is worth. He works with corporate portfolios and with people filing for the first time, and he takes particular care with the latter. Explaining it clearly is the part of the job he enjoys most.

Experience: Over 19 years in intellectual property
USPTO: 17 years as a patent examiner
Association: Mechanical Representative, Patent Office Professional Association, 10+ years
Admitted: United States Patent and Trademark Office; Maryland
Law: J.D., Indiana University, Maurer School of Law
Engineering: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Activities: Chair, Alumni Board, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Email: Maurice.Williams@filamentlegal.com
Direct: (862) 345-6368

Greg Tinch

Counsel

Greg is a registered patent attorney with more than ten years of legal experience. His technical practice covers mechanical and electrical technologies, with particular depth in renewable energy systems, optics systems and devices, and mechanical apparatus across a wide range of industries.

Before private practice he served as counsel to two members of Congress and worked closely with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Intellectual property law is written and revised by that committee, so Greg reads changes to it with an unusual sense of where they came from and what they were meant to do. That perspective matters when a client needs to know not only what the rule is today but which way it is moving.

He handles prosecution from drafting through appeal, and he is often the attorney clients call when an office action arrives and they want to know whether it is worth fighting.

Experience: Over 10 years of legal practice
Technical focus: Renewable energy systems, optics systems and devices, mechanical devices
Public service: Counsel to two members of Congress; worked with the Senate Judiciary Committee
Admitted: United States Patent and Trademark Office; Maryland
Law: J.D., University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Engineering: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

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