William J. Hoofe IV
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WILLIAM J. HOOFE IV, B.S., Information & Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1989; J.D., Western State University College of Law, 1998; Certificate, Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2004. Admitted to the Courts of the State of California, U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Avionics Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Military Aircraft Systems Division, 1990-1999; Northrop B-2 Division Engineer of the Month, April 1991. Associated with Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP (Los Angeles), 1999-2000; Haverstock & Owens LLP (Sunnyvale, California), 2002-2003; F. Chau & Associates LLC (Woodbury, New York), 2005-2008. Member of the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society. Experienced in patent application drafting, prosecution, patent opinion matters, and counseling in the fields of electronics, computer-related technologies, semiconductor devices and fabrication, communication systems, electrosurgical devices, and medical imaging systems.