Mr. Thomas Isaacson
Partner, Novak Druce + Quigg
Prior to merging his solo law practice of 5 years, Tom Isaacson served as in-house counsel to AT&T Corp., worked as an associate in the Washington D.C. Office of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, LLP (Now Pillsbury Withrop, LLP) and clerked for Judge J. Thomas Greene in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
Mr. Isaacson practices strategic patent prosecution, assertion and client counseling. His experience includes representing clients on patent prosecution, trademark, licensing, and litigation matters. Representative technologies include CDMA and MPEG standards-based patent analysis, DVD technologies, High Performance Computing (Cloud Computing), Wireless technologies and devices and the mechanical arts. Prior to its spin-off from AT&T Corp., Mr. Isaacson managed the prosecution of the patent portfolio for AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. He has also prosecuted patent applications and provided strategic IP counseling to companies such as PalmSource, Inc. Much of Mr. Isaacson’s experience has centered on many different software applications and handheld wireless devices including GPS and location-based technologies. Mr. Isaacson also provides intellectual property counseling and portfolio development for the voice-enabled services laboratory of AT&T Corp., as well as focusing on strategic patent prosecution and licensing of industry standards-based technologies such as MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. He has negotiated and asserted IP rights in Finland, France, Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea. Most recently, Mr. Isaacson has managed the development of patents protecting features of Apple’s AppStore, iTunes, iPhone, and Fairplay DRM technology. Mr. Isaacson has also strategically developed from scratch a number of international IP portfolios protecting via patent and trademark applications the intellectual property of companies such as Cluster Resources, Inc., which is the world leader in cluster/grid and on-demand computing workload management.