Mr. Robbins is Senior Patent Counsel to the firm, and is involved in all aspects of patent law, including patent counseling and portfolio management.
Tom’s technical experience range throughout the electrical and mechanical arts, including, but not limited to, the areas of communications and semiconductors.
Before joining JIPL, Tom was a registered patent attorney for the Department of the Navy at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he provided counseling in areas relating to high assurance computing and information technologies. Tom has also provided patent services to independent inventors, start-ups, and international corporations in many facets of technology, with a particular focus in communications.
Tom was formerly a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he evaluated patent applications for patentability in the optical arts, focusing mainly on electro-optics.
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