Joseph Makuch

Mr. Makuch ’s legal career has spanned over two decades and encompassed almost every aspect of IP legal practice including patent preparation and prosecution, litigation in courts and administrative agencies, IP clearance and opinion work, new lawyer development and mentoring, and educational outreach to clients and professional and trade groups.

With the benefit of experience in all of these aspects of IP law, Mr. Makuch has refocused his current practice on the work he enjoys most: preparing and prosecuting patent applications on complex and demanding technologies. He enjoys immersing himself in new technologies and working closely with engineers to gain a deep understanding of their inventions. Mr. Makuch then prepares patent applications with a view to the prosecution, enforcement, and licensing that may be encountered over the life of a patent.

Mr. Makuch has drafted patent applications in a wide range of technologies. Some of his most extensive experience has been in the following technologies: volatile and non-volatile memories including memory cell structures and IC processing, sense amplifiers, drivers, read and write logic, and memory interfaces; high-speed interconnects including drivers and receivers, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, clock recovery circuits, serializers/deserializers and transmission line compensation circuits; analog IC design including low noise amplifiers, RF mixers, RF power detectors, logarithmic amplifiers, exponential amplifiers, and interpolators; digital signal processing including DSP applications such as digital TV, maximum power point tracking, and image processing.

In addition to his current client practice, Mr. Makuch is also an adjunct faculty member at Lewis & Clark Law School where he mentors law students representing clients at the law school’s USPTO certified legal clinic.

Professional Experience

• Prepared and/or prosecuted hundreds of US patent applications in a wide range of technology areas with a special emphasis on the electrical, computer, and material sciences.
• Represented clients in US District Courts in Oregon, and pro hac vice in Nevada, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
• Represented clients in dozens of patent and trademark appeals at the USPTO
• Conducted patent clearance searches and prepared formal non-infringement and invalidity opinions.

Bar Admissions

• Oregon State Bar
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Clinical Teaching

• Lewis & Clark Law School, Adjunct faculty member- mentoring law students representing patent clients at the law school’s USPTO certified legal clinic, Spring 2017-Present

Employment

• Renaissance IP Law Group, LLP, Of Counsel, Present
• Intersect IP LLC, Intellectual Property Attorney, 2017-2019
• IPTDEV, Intellectual Property and Technology Developer/Attorney, 2012-2017
• Marger Johnson & McCollom, PC, Associate, Partner 1995-2012
• The Lincoln Electric Company, R & D Engineer 1988-1992
• NASA Glenn Research Center, Engineering Intern, 1986-1987

Education

• Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, JD 1995
• Case Western Reserve University, BS Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, 1988