Clint Wilkins, Ph.D.

Clint Wilkins focuses primarily on patent law and leverages his extensive technical knowledge and experience to assist clients with patent post-grant proceedings (including inter partes reviews (IPRs) and ex parte reexaminations), patent preparation and prosecution, patent litigation support, and related counseling. He advises clients in a variety of technical areas, including telecommunications, consumer electronics, health tech and medical devices, and chemical manufacturing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to these and other areas. His practice includes counseling senior management of emerging technology companies at various stages of maturity to help develop U.S. and foreign patent portfolios and manage all aspects of their intellectual property needs.

Technologies in his IPRs and other patent post-grant proceedings, patent prosecution, litigation, and related counseling have spanned wireless protocols, error-control coding, multi-antenna/MIMO systems, multi-user detection, wireless physical layer technologies including CDMA, OFDM and UWB, radio-frequency circuits, multi-level DC power converters, implantable neurostimulators, spinal implants, ophthalmic medical devices, surface and bulk acoustic wave technology, and anti-counterfeit lottery tickets.

He has extensive experience with complex wireless communications technology and associated standards development, having worked in these areas during graduate school, thereafter as an innovator in a corporate laboratory, and continuing to the present as a patent attorney. As a result, he is familiar with many of the major wireless technologies of the last 30 years, including those developed within 3GPP standards (including GSM, EDGE, UMTS,  LTE, and 5G), and those developed within IEEE standards (including UWB and 802.11), enabling him to efficiently develop patent portfolios in these areas and solutions for licensing and litigation matters involving SEPs.

Before law school, Clint worked for more than five years as an engineer for a large wireless equipment manufacturer in its corporate research and development labs in suburban Chicago. His projects involved research, development, proof of concept, and 3GPP standardization activities directed toward cellular phones and base stations. He is a co-inventor of four U.S. patents and has published numerous articles in IEEE journals and conferences.