Sean Whaley
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
LOCATION
710 Lakeway Drive
Suite 120
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
CONTACT
TEL: 408.715.1372
FAX: 408.715.1201
Sean has experience in several areas of intellectual property practice, including patent preparation and prosecution, patent litigation, client counseling and opinion work, patent due diligence and portfolio analysis, and trademark preparation and prosecution. Previously, Sean was an associate at international law firms, where Sean’s practice provided expertise in opinion work related to licensing programs, including patent pools and technical protocols. Sean has represented clients ranging from emerging start-ups to multi-national conglomerates.
Sean has drafted patent applications covering numerous technical fields, including electronics, microelectronic circuits, power electronic circuits and power management, computer hardware and software, cloud computing, mobile technologies, telecommunications devices and networking systems, semiconductor technologies, encoding and decoding systems, feedback systems, network and computer security, and user interfaces.
While attending law school, Sean was Executive Production Editor for the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Quarterly Journal.
EDUCATION
J.D., The George Washington University
School of Law, 2008
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2005
B.S., Comparative Media Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2005
BAR ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California
United States Patent and Trademark
Office