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John F. O'Rourke 
1301 Dove Street
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Newport Beach, California 92660-2484
 

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John F. O'Rourke is a registered patent attorney with nearly 40 years of overall experience in the applied sciences, including nearly 30 years as an electrical/computer engineer. He counsels and represents clients in matters concerning technology and intellectual property law, particularly in the areas of patent assertion, validity, right-to-use, claim coverage, infringement, and enforcement; strategic foreign patent filing; design patents and trademark selection; and the identification and preservation of trade secrets.

Mr. O'Rourke has prepared several hundred original U.S. patent applications across a spectrum of technical disciplines, including semiconductor and optical devices, materials, and fabrication; computer, communication and network components, interfaces, systems, and protocols; multidimensional and adaptive signal processing architectures and techniques; embedded systems and multimode human-computer interfaces; biometric, biomedical, bioengineering, and radiological devices; operating systems, compilers, and applications programs; secure communication, and cryptographic systems; biological and molecular computing; and simple mechanical devices.

IC- and Computer-Related Experience: Advanced processor and controller architectures: MIMD, SIMD, VLIW, RISC, NUMA, superscalar, dataflow, and reconfigurable; multiprocessing and multithreading techniques and strategies; speculative, branch prediction, and ILP techniques and strategies; cache memories and buffers: hierarchical, multiport, associative & CAM designs; shared memory multiprocessing and memory management units; SOC, multi-core and MCM devices and techniques; electrical, optical, RF/microwave, and multimode signaling methods; VLSI design, fabrication, packaging, testing and production: CMOS, GaAs, SiC; busses, bus interfaces, multilevel signaling, I/O processing and optimization; and low power methods: power management, floor plan, layout, and instruction set to optimization.

Communications and Network Experience: Adaptive signal processing and architectures;  multidimensional and array signal processing, including image processing; spacial and frequency diversity; RADAR and microwave techniques; ISO/OSI Reference Model Lay 1 and 2, including PHY & MAC; ISO/OSI Reference Model Layer 3 & 4, including IEEE 802.x, Bluetooth, Zigbee; mesh and swarm implementations, signal conditioning and timing management: ADC, analog and digital filters, VCO, PLL; modulation devices and methods: AM, FM, n-PSK, -FSK, -QAM, -PAM, OFDM; Broadcast/access techniques and architectures: TDMA, FDMA;  mobile wireless and cellular telecommunications systems and networks: 2G/2.5G/3G/4G; coding techniques: Reed-Solomon, BCH, turbo, LDPC and Viterbi techniques; components: FEC, tranceivers, interleavers, constellation map/mux; clocks, CDR, oscillators; and audio/video amplifiers, filters, and coding; acoustic techniques.

 

Current Employment Position(s):
Registered Patent Attorney
Areas of Practice:
Intellectual Property
Technology Transfer and Competitive Intelligence
Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia, 1995
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1994
U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, 1993
Pennsylvania, 1993
Education:
Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January, 1993
J.D.


Villanova University, Villanova, PA, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May, 1989
Master of Science
Honors: John J. Gallen Memorial Award, 1998
Major:  Electrical Engineering


Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May, 1984
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Minor:  Mathematics


Atlantic Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey, May, 1977
Associate of Science in Nursing
Honors: President of Student Body, School of Nursing, 1976-77


Published Works:
Root Map Characterization of Interference Location in a Wide Aperture Antenna Array, Proceedings of the 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August, 1989


The Use of Root Maps in Antenna Arrays, M.S.E.E. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May, 1989


The Effects of Steering Phase Errors on the Optimum Applebaum Array, Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989


The Effects of Thermal Noise Power and Steering Phase Errors on Interference Location in the Optimum Applebaum Array, Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989


Root Map Characterization of Interference Location in a Wide Aperture Antenna Array, Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989


Professional Associations and Memberships:
District of Columbia Bar Association


Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer, 1981 - Present
Member


Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer
Computer Society


Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer
Communications Society


Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer
Electron Device Society