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Charles L. Hamilton

Senior IP Counsel

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Mr. Hamilton has over a decade of experience as an engineer and as a patent attorney.

Mr. Hamilton spent three years as an engineer with The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia, designing telecommunications systems. He has been a patent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997, working in the San Francisco office of Limbach & Limbach, L.L.P. and in the Palo Alto office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew L.L.P.

Mr. Hamilton has drafted over 200 patent applications and has prosecuted numerous patent applications to issue as patents. He has also participated in patent lawsuits, licensing negotiations and other adverse matters, assessing patent validity, invalidity, infringement, and non-infringement

EDUCATION

Boston University School of Law, J.D.

Duke University School of Engineering
B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering

ADMISSIONS

State Bar of California
United States Patent & Trademark Office
District Court, Northern District of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Charles L. Hamilton

Senior IP Counsel

| Silicon Valley
E-MAIL
[email protected]
TELEPHONE
(408) 260-3215

Mr. Hamilton has over a decade of experience as an engineer and as a patent attorney.

Mr. Hamilton spent three years as an engineer with The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia, designing telecommunications systems. He has been a patent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997, working in the San Francisco office of Limbach & Limbach, L.L.P. and in the Palo Alto office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew L.L.P.

Mr. Hamilton has drafted over 200 patent applications and has prosecuted numerous patent applications to issue as patents. He has also participated in patent lawsuits, licensing negotiations and other adverse matters, assessing patent validity, invalidity, infringement, and non-infringement

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