Practice:

• Intellectual Property / SciTech
• International Practice

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Experience:

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP in January 2006, Dr. Lopez was with the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP. In his practice, Dr. Lopez concentrates on helping his clients, which range from individual inventors to large multinational corporations and universities, identify and protect their intellectual property and build their patent portfolios. He applies his broad technical expertise and his experience in intellectual property to counsel his clients. Dr. Lopez has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in diverse areas of technology such as nanotechnology, optics, quantum optics, software, business methods, telecommunications, wireless applications, electronic imaging, mechanical and physical devices.

Dr. Lopez has over twenty five years of experience at various high technology companies, including Polaroid, Data General, Control Data, and Science Applications., as a technical manager, program manager, engineer and researcher. His experience spans from managing product design projects, managing complex research teams involving software, IC design, optics, mechanics and electronics to being an active researcher in areas from magnetic and optical recording and electromagnetic effects to imaging science. He has broad knowledge in a variety of engineering and physical science disciplines including physical devices, optics, software, imaging science and mechanical devices.

Dr. Lopez also spent 15 years at Polaroid Corporation as a senior principal engineer, technical manager in various divisions and as a Technical Manager (licensing) /Patent Agent for the Law and Patent Department. He drafted and prosecuted patent applications in electronic imaging, optics, software, business methods, wireless applications and physical devices, and participated in licensing inventions in optics and electronic imaging.

Read the patent blog, obvIPat, co-authored by Orlando Lopez and Bruce Jobse.

Memberships:

• Sigma Xi
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
• Several bar associations
• Former member, Board of Directors of La Alianza Hispana

Additional Information:

• Dr. Lopez has had numerous articles published in refereed journals.
• He has presented at conferences on topics including magnetics, electromagnetic effects, plasmas and optical recording.

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, 1965
• MEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
• Masters, Philosophy, Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, 1972
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado - Boulder
• J.D, cum laude, New England School of Law, 2005

Awards:

• Dr. Lopez has been listed in Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology.
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2008. Massachusetts Rising Stars consist of the top 2.5 percent of the up-and-coming attorneys in Massachusetts, and are age 40 or younger or have been practicing for ten or fewer years. The listing appeared in the May issue of Boston Magazine and Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine – Rising Stars Edition.

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