Mr. Carlos Villamar, an attorney specializing in high technology intellectual property law, will present a lecture
Mr. Carlos Villamar, an attorney specializing in high technology intellectual property law, will present a lecture on Friday, April 9th, at JAMK University of Applied Sciences at 10 am in auditorium FP05, located on the main campus on Rajakatu 35 in Jyväskylä. The lecture is open to the public.
Mr. Villamar’s presentation, titled "Intellectual Property (IP) Protection in the Digital Age: What every firm and university should know to maximize IP and minimize costs," will focus on the importance of developing a global strategy for intellectual property protection. Mr. Villamar is a founding partner of The Villamar Firm PLLC, located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and where he assists clients with foreign and domestic patent application preparation and prosecution, opinion work, litigation, and IP counseling.
Mr. Villamar's expertise covers a wide variety of technologies, including wired, wireless, optical, terrestrial broadcast and satellite communications, neural networks, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, encryption, digital signal processing, speech recognition and language understanding, sound and image processing, video processing, medical imaging, video games, on-line gaming, gaming engines, physics engines, 3D graphics, virtual worlds, Digital Rights Management, e-commerce, military technologies, radar, sonar, fighter aircraft, missiles, ground guidance, heads-up displays, computers and architectures, computer networks and security, semiconductors, device manufacturing, nanotechnology, oil and gas exploration, renewable energy, electrical, solar, thermal and wind power, automotive technologies, and electromechanical technologies.
Prior to founding The Villamar Firm, Mr. Villamar gained extensive experience in numerous aspects of intellectual property law as an attorney in large, national general practice and IP boutique law firms and as a patent examiner in the Speech Signal Processing Group of the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.
As an electrical engineer, Mr. Villamar has extensive commercial experience, including production design and testing for the Standard Missile Program at the General Dynamics Corporation Missile Systems Group (purchased by Raytheon), high-speed digital logic and computer design for the Advanced Tactical Fighter Program at the Hughes Aircraft Company Radar Systems Group (purchased by Raytheon), and IR&D and design of high-speed digital signal processing and communications systems at the Hughes Aircraft Company Advanced Circuits Technology Center (purchased by Raytheon, spun off as TelASIC and then purchased by MTI).
Education: J.D., The George Washington University Law School (1998); M.S.E.E., California State University, Long Beach, empahisis in Digital Signal Processing & Neural Networks, (1992); and B.S.E.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, empahisis in Digital Signal Processing, (1987).
Admitted: Virginia, the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Virginia Supreme Court, and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
For more information about this program, or if you wish to request a meeting with Mr. Villamar on behalf of your organization's needs, please contact Global Business Management Senior Lecturer Steven Crawford at firstname.lastname@jamk.fi.