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John F. Nethery

Practice Summary

Mr. Nethery's technical education includes undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and a master's degree in Computer Engineering.  His legal experience includes more than 13 years of strategizing and executing domestic and international patent prosecution for complex electrical and computer technologies.  His legal experience further includes claim interpretation and analysis of complex technology patents, leading to analyses of validity and infringement positions and opinions for such patents, and the preparation of expert witnesses in support of licensing negotiations and anticipated litigation.

Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Nethery applied his computer science and computer engineering degrees in his role as a computer engineer.  His hardware engineering experience includes laptop computer design, fiber optic data communication systems, embedded controller design for Intel microprocessor based architectures, FCC EMC testing and compliance, and local peripheral and video device bus mastering designs with Altera erasable programmable digital logic devices.  In addition, Mr. Nethery has extensive engineering experience with digital circuit design, schematic capture, circuit simulation, and printed circuit board layout, as well as experience with design, construction, and hardware and software debugging of hardware prototypes using logic analyzers and digital oscilloscopes. His experience with software languages and computer systems includes hardware description languages, C and other high level programming languages, different varieties of assembly language, Unix system administration, and microcontroller programming.

Honors/Distinctions
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  • Tau Beta Pi
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Articles Editor, Recent Decisions of the Illinois Bar Journal, University of Illinois Law School
  • Editor in Chief, Recent Decisions Section of the Illinois Bar Journal, University of Illinios
  • Illinois Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2008, 2012 
  • Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network, Law Bulletin Publishing Company, 2010, 2011 
Representative Matters
Patents
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  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,835,058: Adaptive Reflector Constellation for Space-Based Antennas
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,939,895: Frozen Wave High Speed Receiver
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,941,230: Appliance for Improved Venting
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,952,967: Low Cost Even Numbered Port Modeformer Circuit
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,957,982: Method and System for Space Navigation
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,091,703: Bulk Despreading of Multiple Independent CDMA Sources
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,279,132: Concatenated Error Control Method and System for a Processing Satellite Uplink
  • U.S. Pat. No. 7,551,925: Unified directory system including a data model for managing access to telecommunications services
  • U.S. Pat. No. 7,610,196: Periodic signal enhancement system
  • U.S. Pat. No. 7,613,657: Reverse rating system for determining duration of a usage transaction
  • U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2008/0016321: Interleaved hardware multithreading processor architecture
  • U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2008/0046756: Display of decrypted data by a graphics processing unit
  • U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2008/0008314: Encryption and decryption on a graphics processing unit
  • U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2009/0150144: Robust voice detector for receive-side automatic gain control
  • U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2009/0204719: Streaming Media Interruption and Resumption System
Authored Published Patent Applications
  • Co-inventor of:  U.S. Pat. No. 7,036,145
    Method and apparatus for electronic entertainment device access control and interactive response system.
Publications
Presentations
  • Claim Drafting, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Seminar, Chicago, May 2006
  • Nationalizaitons, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Seminar, Chicago, March 2006
  • Specification Drafting, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Seminar, Chicago, June 2006 & December 2007
Legal Experience

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, Illinois
Shareholder, January 2007-Present
Associate, July 2003-January 2007

Rubio, Hammond, Nethery & Gulliver, Chicago, Illinois
Partner, October 2002-July 2003

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Illinois
March 2001-September 2002

McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Chicago, Illinois
January 1997-February 2001
 

Non-Legal Experience

Technology Resource Group, Des Moines, Iowa
Design Engineer, May 1994-December 1994

University of Illinois College of Engineering, Champaign, Illinois
Research Assistant, August 1992-August 1993

DFM Business Systems, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa
Design Engineer, May 1990-August 1991, Summer 1992
 

Teaching Experience

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois Adjunct Professor of Law Patent Prosecution, Fall 2011