Practice Expertise

  • Intellectual Property Strategic Counseling
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Research Institutions
  • Higher Education

Areas of Practice

  • Higher Education
  • Intellectual Property Strategic Counseling
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Research Institutions
  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent
  • Patent - High Tech
  • Patent - University Research and Technology ...
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education
  • Technology Transfer
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Profile

Comprehensive and strategic IP protection and enforcement

Yakov Sidorin has contributed to the development of optical sciences and technologies as an engineer, scientist, chief technology officer and director of research and development at established companies and several startups, one of which delivered products to market and was acquired. He now aids clients in various areas of intellectual property (IP) counseling and guides his clients in developing comprehensive strategies in patent prosecution, licensing and transfer of IP into market, opinion work, infringement analysis and valuation of IP, to name just a few. Yakov represents a variety of clients, including:

  • Academic institutions
  • Multinational corporations
  • Mid-size companies
  • Startups

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona
  • Massachusetts

Education

  • Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Russia) (with honors, 1989)
    • Engineering
  • Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2016)
  • The University of Arizona (Ph.D., 1998)
    • Optical Sciences
  • The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D., 2007)

Areas of Practice

  • Higher Education
  • Intellectual Property Strategic Counseling
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Research Institutions
  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent
  • Patent - High Tech
  • Patent - University Research and Technology Transfer
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education
  • Technology Transfer

Professional Career



Articles

  • "IDEA to ASSET Seminar"
  • "Perspective of Government Agencies on Technology Commercialization and Deployment"
  • "Technological Developments in Southern Arizona and Support Provided by Law Practitioners"
  • "The State of the Council Breakfast"
  • "Trade Talks for the Arizona Optics Industry"
  • Chair for "Photonic Integration" Track
  • Chair for "Photonic Integration" Track
  • Chair for Photonic Integration Track and Committee Member for "Integrated Optics Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIII" Conference
  • Committee Member for "Integrated Optics Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIII" Conference
  • First Sale Defense to Copyright Infringement Does Not Apply to Certain Goods Resold in the U.S - At Least in the States of the 9th Circuit

Seminar

  • 2020 Southern Arizona Tech + Business Expo
  • SPIE - Photonics West OPTO 2017
  • SPIE - Photonics West OPTO 2018
  • SPIE - Photonics West OPTO 2019
  • SPIE – Photonics West OPTO 2020

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