Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

BACKGROUND

Tom Satagaj provides intellectual property rights counsel including patent portfolio strategy development, due diligence analysis, and validity and infringement studies.  Tom specializes in patent procurement and licensing in the electrical engineering, embedded systems, and computer-related fields.  He graduated (cum laude) from the University of Bridgeport with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, minor in Mathematics (1987) and went on to receive a J.D. (cum laude) from Seattle University (2006).

EXPERIENCE

Tom has nearly 20 years of industry experience bringing electronic systems from initial concept through design, manufacturing, and market delivery. He is well-versed in many facets of high and low-level software, electronics, and engineering design methodologies. Tom has expert level knowledge of several microprocessor families, electronic communication protocols, and electronic devices, and he specializes in digital electronics integration and embedded systems. Tom began his career at Norden Systems, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), writing embedded software for advanced military radar and ballistics systems. Later, he moved to another UTC division, Otis Elevator, to work on high-rise elevator controllers. Tom then joined Measurement Systems International (MSI), an industrial weighing systems manufacturer, where he designed, developed, and integrated embedded software. Most recently, Tom worked as an architect level engineer and engineering manager at BSQUARE Corporation, where he designed and integrated consumer electronic systems built around Microsoft’s family of embedded operating systems.

AFFILIATIONS

Tom is admitted to the Washington State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the King County Bar Association (KCBA), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Washington State Patent Law Association (WSPLA), The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).