Brad Meier has experience in a broad range of intellectual property matters including: drafting and prosecuting US, PCT, and foreign patent applications; managing complex patent prosecution dockets; strategic patent portfolio analysis and counseling; rendering opinions on the scope, validity, and infringement of patents; and inter partes and ex parte reexamination, litigation and interference support. His practice focuses primarily on computer-related technologies, with an emphasis on e-commerce, networks, and communications.
Mr. Meier has substantial experience in network-based computing. He has drafted a significant number of patent applications directed to business applications deployable on a services-enabled architecture for a global enterprise software company. He has drafted applications directed to social networking platforms and prosecuted a foundational patent portfolio directed to third party targeted online advertising. He has supported an interference proceeding involving web browser technology.
In addition, Mr. Meier has drafted applications directed to touch sensitive user interfaces and displays, financial trading systems, network and database management systems and business methods, and has prosecuted applications in these areas as well as MFPs, optical pickup devices, LEDs and medical devices.
Mr. Meier is versed in numerous third and fourth-generation programming languages, in addition to common development environments. Prior to entering the legal profession, he served as a UNIX system administrator for his undergraduate engineering department, and held an extended internship at a major package delivery company, where he generated software for the testing and development of mobile package tracking communications devices.
Mr. Meier received his J.D. and his M.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1998. He received his B.S., magna cum laude, in physics-engineering and computer science from Washington and Lee University in 1995.
Mr. Meier is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is admitted to practice in Virginia, New York and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the American Bar Association.