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Meet Derek Meeker
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well i started as an electrical engineer
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i did that for about uh seven years
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mainly working for in uh high-speed
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optical telecommunications systems well
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they were they were high speed at the
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time i’m not sure what they are now
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i have a couple of patents related to
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those but uh you know even around that
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time you know technology was was a hobby
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for me i worked on a free space optical
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communication systems so that i could
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have a uh ethernet link between my house
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and a friend’s house that was back in
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the days before dia before cable modems
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where we’re all still using dial up i
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wrote a packet filter for ipx networking
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i set up a video conferencing server i
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even built a sterling engine i just
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am interested in how things work
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curiosity that i have
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fit really well
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with being a patent attorney i’m exposed
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to all sorts of new technology and what
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i found is i am very able to quickly
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pick it up something that i may even
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have no experience with i can pick it up
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and have intelligent conversations with
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um inventors uh you know even so that i
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can crack jokes with them be able to
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explain to uh examiners and have
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conversations with them and even with
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opposing expert witnesses to be able to
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get them hopefully to say some admission
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that we’re looking for
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now it’s my career as a patent attorney
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has involved all sorts of technology
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semiconductor devices networks
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processors acoustic systems x-ray
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devices engine control systems
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um even even turbochargers it’s a wide
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variety of technical experience and you
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know as a patent attorney i dig in my
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start and prosecution did that for
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about six or seven years and then
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began
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post-grant work uh i want to say about
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eight years ago and been doing that on
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more more increasing basis working on
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ipr’s pgrs
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some re-examinations here and there
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Washington, D.C. intellectual property lawyer Derek Meeker talks about his professional experience.
