Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

Marian E. Silberstein, Ph.D.
Patent Agent

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BACKGROUND

Marian specializes in electrical and electronic engineering patent procurement and analysis matters. She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1985), an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1991), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1996), all from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

EXPERIENCE

Prior to joining Seed IP, Marian worked in process technology development at Intel for a total of eleven years. As a senior engineer, she developed next-generation patterning technology to advance silicon microprocessor fabrication. As an engineering manager, she formed and led a team to support Intel’s 65 nm microprocessor technology ramp, from development through initial high-volume production. Marian also led an engineering group at Intel to invent a novel manufacturing process for polymer memory devices. In addition to working in the integrated circuit field, Marian served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force for seven years. During this time, she worked with telecommunications networks, computational electromagnetics, and RF applications, and taught physics at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Marian’s legal experience working as a patent agent at several Northwest law firms includes drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications, conducting freedom-to-operate searches and patentability assessments, co-drafting briefs for inter-partes re-examination cases and infringement litigation, and providing technical analysis for prospective litigation. In a recent corporate position, Marian served as Principal U.S. Patent Agent for Biotronik, Inc., a medical device company based in Berlin.

AFFILIATIONS

Marian is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is a member of the Washington State Patent Law Association.