Ms. Pan specializes in patent portfolio building for large and small companies,
including
patent preparation, prosecution and appeals. Ms. Pan's legal expertise also extends to multi-party
complex patent
litigation before several U.S. federal district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the
U.S.
Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Pan counsels clients in patent licensing and valuation, taking into
account probabilities of infringement and invalidity.
Ms. Dvorson prepares and prosecutes applications relating to computer software and the electrical
and
mechanical arts. Specifically, Natalya has experience drafting and prosecuting applications directed to
business
methods, document management, telecommunications, distributed networking, and various aspects of
memory including
RAID arrays, data compression, encryption/decryption. Ms. Dvorson is fluent in Russian.
Patent applications incur government fees at the outset of filing, throughout the duration of
prosecution
and even after patent grant. When filing many patent applications, it is almost inevitable that mistakes
are
made leading to excess fees being paid. On occasion, the USPTO also makes an error and charges
Applicants the
wrong fees or inadvertently double-charges fees. Unfortunately, requesting a refund is not as simple as
picking
up the phone. A formal paper must be filed, explaining the circumstances and providing ...
