Mark W. Hrozenchik, Attorney

Mark Hrozenchik is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in patent application preparation and prosecution and in rendering invalidity and non-infringement opinions.

He has represented clients in a substantial range of technology areas, with a primary focus on electrical arts, including computers, software, and electronics.  His patent experience includes software/web-based systems, semiconductor technologies, software diagnosing and patient monitoring, assay readers, satellite and network-based communication technologies, medical diagnostic equipment and systems, ophthalmic blades, insulin insertion devices, aviation technology (especially unmanned aerial vehicles), plastic containers (design patent protection), and radio technologies.
 
Mark's patent prosecution practice encompasses many aspects of patent practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, reexaminations, reissue applications, examiner interviews, preparing appeal briefs and petitions, and arguing appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.  Mark has extensive experience in preparing and filing PCT applications, and in prosecuting national-stage applications and managing foreign counsel. 

Mark has experience in other aspects of intellectual property law, including licensing of patents, support of patent infringement litigation, and providing advice regarding trademark and copyright protection.  Mark has handled the IP aspect of due diligence projects for mergers, acquisitions and refinancings.
 
Prior to and during law school, Mark worked as an engineer for 14 years in a variety of positions, including with Norden Systems, Grumman Aerospace, Trans-Lux and Duracell.  Among the technologies upon which he worked are LED information display systems, fiber optic-based communications, rechargeable batteries, and radar system testing.

After law school, Mark worked for a year as a patent examiner at the USPTO.  He has been in private practice since 1999.  He worked from 2005 through early 2009 in the Washington, D.C., offices of a large international law firm, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and, prior to that, for over three years at a prominent IP boutique, in Washington, D.C.

Mark is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Connecticut, and New York.  He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (registration number 45,316).  Mark is not yet admitted to the Virginia State Bar.

Mark received a bachelor's of engineering degree in electrical engineering in 1984 from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey; a master's of science degree in electrical engineering in 1991 from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly); and a law degree in 1997 from Quinnipiac College School of Law, in Hamden, Connecticut.

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
			Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn M.S.E.E.