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Robert
Groover is an experienced electronics patent attorney
with a high-tech orientation. He has a strong background with
patent committee operations, substantial publications on patent
management and quality issues, and very extensive experience
in patent prosecution and management. He is a Senior Member
of the IEEE (the main US professional society for electrical
engineers), and also a full member of ASME (the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers) and of SPE (Society of Petroleum
Engineers). During his 20+ years in the patent profession,
he has written nearly a thousand patent applications himself
(and prosecuted a much larger number), and has been involved
in more than a dozen patent infringement lawsuits. He is an
inventor on several patents himself, and a frequent speaker
on patent law, innovation management, and patent-related career
issues for technologists. |
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Dr.
Wei (韦帷 博士) is an experienced telecommunications engineer, and former professor
of Telecommunications engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and elsewhere.
He has taught various graduate and undergraduate courses including Telecomm Algorithms,
Telecomm software design and wireless networking. He also has more than 10 years of
engineering and consulting experience in Telecom system and software design with U.S.,
Asian and European companies including AT&T, NEC, Alcatel, and others. He is an inventor
on several patents himself, and a speaker on Telecom systems design at various academic
and industrial conferences. He led a team (funded by U.S. DoE via AlliedSignal) which
won the INTEROP'92 Networking Achievement Award in Education Category. Dr. Wei served
as expert consultant in a Telecom system design patent infringement lawsuit, and is
currently studying law while working at Groover & Associates as a patent engineer. He is
a native of Hunan province, and received two university degrees in China before coming
to the United States. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Master's degree
in Computer Engineering (from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science Telecommunications from UMKC. |
