Gideon Gimlan concentrates his legal services on patent prosecution matters and providing portfolio management advice. As a resident of the firm's Silicon Valley office (San Jose), Mr. Gimlan has extensive experience in providing IP protection for a variety of technologies, including computer-related inventions of software, hardware and intermixed kinds; programmable logic device architectures (FPGAs, CPLDs, etc.); security systems; telecommunications switching equipment; computer disk drive subsystems; semiconductor fabrication processes; digital and analog electrical circuits; semiconductor memories, optical alignment equipment; mainframe microcode designs; Internet related business applications, and various mechanical and electromechanical devices. Mr. Gimlan also has experience in patent and trade secrets litigation, as well as in the filing of appeals before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with which he is registered as a patent attorney.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Gimlan was a partner with Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy LLP, practicing out of their Silicon Valley office. Prior to 1991, Mr. Gimlan was an associate of the Skjerven Morrill MacPherson firm. Even earlier in time, Mr. Gimlan was associated with the Spensley Horn firm of Los Angeles and the Wyatt Gerber firm of New York City. Mr. Gimlan also has a number of years of experience as a practicing electrical engineer, particularly in the field of microprocessor-based hardware and software designs.

Email:ggimlan@macpherson-kwok.com

Professional Affiliations:

  • State Bars of California, New York and New Jersey
  • Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association
  • IEEE
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education:

  • City College of New York, B.E. Electrical Engineering
  • University of Rochester, M.S. Electrical Engineering
  • Fordham University, J.D.


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or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent." - United States Patent & Trademark Office
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