Erol has experience in many patent-focused areas, including drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the electrical, mechanical, and software arts; handling USPTO post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews and reexaminations; managing patent portfolios and strategy; and evaluating, formulating, and strengthening IP strategies. Erol has extensive experience successfully navigating subject matter eligibility challenges at the USPTO, particularly in areas such as algorithms and software. His practice includes developing strategies and prosecuting patent applications in crossover fields where software intersects with other disciplines, such as business, energy, and genomics. Erol also has experience in autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, chemistry, drones, computer/device hardware and software, gaming, materials, memory, networks, semiconductor fabrication, solar, user interfaces, and 3D printing.
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Before co-founding the firm, Erol was Of Counsel at a Big Law firm, where he worked for seven years. Prior to that, he worked as an engineer in the semiconductor processing industry, and as a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) engineer. He also served as an extern for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

• Successfully argued multiple appeals at the PTAB.
• Manage large and valuable patent portfolios for clients.

• “Fabless Semiconductor Companies, the Patent On Sale Bar, and the New America Invents Act: Have Fabless Companies Been Shortchanged, or Is Change Coming?”
  UCLA Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT), Fall 2012.
• “Challenging Validity in the PTO Under the 2011 Patent Act”
  Chapter 15 in Patent Litigation Treatise, Practising Law Institute (PLI), Spring 2012.
• “InGaAs-GaN Bonded-Aperture Vertical Electron Transistors”
  International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Santa Barbara CA, Sep. 2009.
• “Indium-Phosphide to Gallium-Nitride and Indium-Gallium-Nitride N-N Diodes by Direct Wafer Bonding”
  Electronic Materials Conference, Santa Barbara CA, June 23-25 2008.
• “Back-End-of-Line Poly-Si-Ge Disk Resonators”
  MEMS 2006 Conference, Istanbul. Jan 2006.
• “Characterization of copper layers grown by electrochemical mechanical deposition technique”
  Thin Solid Films, Volume 478, Issues 1-2 May 2005.
• “Planar copper plating and electropolishing techniques”
  National American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting, San Francisco CA, Nov 17-18 2003.

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• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 2009
• California Bar 2012

• Patent Prosecution and Counseling
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
• Due Diligence
• Patent Validity Analysis