DAVID LEWIS, PH.D.
REGISTERED PATENT AGENT/PHYSICIST
1250 Aviation Avenue, Suite 200B, San Jose, California 95110
     davidlewisnmn@yahoo.com
                 408-993-1800

SUMMARY:
·         Prepare and prosecute patent applications, responses to rejections, petitions, and
appeal briefs
·         Handle utility, design, and reissue applications
·         Ph.D. in Physics
·         Wrote and presented numerous publications



PATENT EXPERIENCE:
REGISTERED PATENT AGENT (self employment)      
2004-Present                                                             
Write and prosecute utility and design applications.  Capable of handling patent
applications in a large variety of technologies. Performed work related to writing patent
applications for medical devices, computer security, inventory systems, and imaging
devices.  

HICKMAN PALERMO TRUONG & BECKER LLP,
2003-2004                                                     
Registered Patent Agent
Handled patent prosecution of utility applications in the fields of databases, computer
processors, networks, routers, and computer software.

CARR & FERRELL LLP,
2000-2003                                                                             
Registered Patent Agent
Prosecuted patent utility and design applications, performed validity searches, and
reviewed file history of granted patents to determine validity in the fields of video
conferencing, magnetic recording, business software, teleconferencing, network security,
business to business software, computer displays, computer processors, lasers, ultrasound
imaging, and optical components.

REGISTERED PATENT AGENT (self employment)            
1988-2000                                                     
Performed novelty searches and prosecuted utility and design applications in the fields of
bicycles, arts and crafts, paint ball guns, visors, games, medical devices, and alarms.  

U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE,
1982-1988                                                                     
Patent Examiner
Obtained partial signatory authority and examined patents in the fields of liquid crystal
display cells, electro-optic devices, rear view mirrors, and microscopes. Instructed fellow
Examiners on the structure and optics of liquid crystal display cells.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
READ-RITE CORPORATION,
1997-1999  
R&D Engineer, Transducer Modeling and Design Department,
Wrote computer programs simulating various aspects of magnetic recording, and performed
statistical analysis of design and production data.

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY,  
1988-1997                                                         
Part Time Lecturer
Taught recitations and labs, in the fields of physics and astronomy, including a “Physics for
Engineers” series of courses encompassing the topics of optics, Newtonian mechanics,
thermal physics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics.

Summer Research Assistant,
Summers of 1989-1992
Assisted with research in theoretical nuclear physics.  Assisted in research in GWU's solid
state laboratory. Built and further perfected a Knight box-type magnetometer.

NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY,
Summer 1994
Summer Research Assistant
Automated carousel for a vacuum chamber, using TBASIC and GPIB protocol.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY,
Summer 1993                             
Summer Research Assistant
Worked on getting a scanning tunneling microscope operating at full resolution.

AWARDS:
·   George Washington University, Bell Scholarship, 1988                                        
·   United States Patent and Trademark Office, Special Achievement Awards, 1983, 1984,
1986-1988
·   Yeshiva University, Professor Arnold and Bertha Lowen Award for Research in Physics,
1981         

EDUCATION:
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C.
Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, 1997; Master of Philosophy, Physics,
1993                                        
Thesis:  Improved Convergence and Accuracy in Micromagnetic Modeling of Domain
Structures in Thin Film          
                                
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, 1981

PUBLICATIONS:
David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "Identification of Stiff Modes in Micromagnetic
Problems," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pt. 2, March 1997, pp. 1596-
1599.

Jason Eicke, David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "Conversion of Long Range Calculation
to Short Range Interactions in Micromagnetic Calculations,"  Physica B, Vol. 233, No. 4,
June 1, 1997, pp. 279-286.

David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "Smoothing Errors in Micromagnetic Calculations,"
Physica B, Vol. 233, No. 4, June 1,1997, pp. 348-355.

David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "The Migrating Mesh Micromagnetic Model," IEEE
Transactions on. Magnetics, Vol. 33, No. 5, Sept 1997, pp. 4161-4163.

David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "Automatic Pushing Applied to Micromagnetic
Calculations of Domain Wall Motion," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 35, No. 3,
May 1999, pp. 1219-1222.

David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, " Effects of Vortices on Two-Dimensional
Micromagnetic Calculations," Physica B, 275 (1-3) (2000) pp. 124-128.

David Lewis and Edward Della Torre, "The Force Between Two 2D Point Vortices,"
Physica B, 275 (1-3) (2000) pp. 69-74.
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