Mr. Ray practices in the firm's Electronics Group. He has been practicing patent law since 1990. From a foundation that includes many years of preparation and prosecution of patent applications, much of his time is now spent providing clients with strategic intellectual property counseling and risk assessment. This includes pre-litigation analysis and negotiations, analyzing patents for infringement and validity, providing legal opinions, and litigating patent matters.
Mr. Ray's practice also involves negotiating and drafting license, settlement and various other IP-related agreements, and performing IP due diligence analyses in conjunction with mergers, acquisitions and purchase or the licensing-in of technology. His work before the United States Patent and Trademark Office includes patent application preparation and prosecution, reissue and reexamination. He has also acted as the defacto IP counsel for several leading-edge technology companies, where he developed programs to protect IP assets, assure ownership, and assure freedom to operate. In addition, Mr. Ray has counseled numerous emerging companies and has lectured on IP best practices.
Mr. Ray has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University Law School in Virginia where he taught classes on patent law and practice.
Mr. Ray has worked on intellectual property matters involving many technologies including computer software and hardware, communications, electronics, mechanical, biomedical and business methods. These include, for example, microprocessor and computer architecture, computer graphics, the Internet, packet-switched networks, telecommunications, multiprocessor systems, integrated circuits, tape and disk subsystems, RAID devices, power converters, magnetic and capacitive coupled devices, electronic test equipment, time domain reflectometry, lasers, spectroscopy, interferometry, optical communications, robotic systems, intelligent vehicle systems, engines and automotive systems, laboratory apparatus, cardiac catheters, pacemakers and defibrillators, and electrocardiographic analysis.
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