BRIAN HOFFMAN, Patent counseling and analysis, Patent prosecution, Patent litigation : Fenwick & West LLP

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BRIAN M. HOFFMAN

Emphasis

		Patent counseling and analysis
		Patent prosecution
		Patent litigation

Profile

Mr. Hoffman's practice concentrates on the strategic development of patent portfolios. He identifies clients' technical advantages and implements programs that capture these advantages as patents. Mr. Hoffman counsels on ways to minimize the impact of competitors' patents. He also formulates core technical arguments in patent and trade secret litigations.

Mr. Hoffman's areas of expertise include software, Internet technologies and computer architectures. He has significant experience with computer security, electronic commerce, encryption and digital rights management, computer graphics and animation, electronic content delivery, and mobile asset tracking.

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., with high honors, 1994

Columbia University, B.S., in computer science, 1991

Admitted to Practice

Member of the State Bar of California. Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Additional Information

Sample Patents:

Reducing False Positive Indications of Buffer Overflow Attacks

Markup Language for an Interactive Geographic Information System

Providing Routing Information Based on Ambiguous Locations

Detecting Code Injection Attacks Against Databases

Character Animation Using Directed Acyclic Graphs

Asynchronous Multilevel Texture Pipeline

Processor Having Multiple Datapath Instances

System and Method for Delivering High-Performance Online Multimedia Services

Combining a Marker with Contextual Information to Deliver Domain-Specific Content

Web Host Providing for Secure Execution of CGI Programs and Method of Doing the Same

Delegation of Permissions In An Electronic Commerce System

Data Driven Detection of Viruses

Interoperability of Vunerability and Intrusion Detection Systems

Articles:

Watch Out for Statutory Bars – Don't Lose Your Patent Rights Before You Even File the Application

Federal Circuit Narrows Application of the Doctrine of Equivalents

Representative Clients

		BlueSpace Software Corporation
		Google Inc.
		Kiha Software, Inc.
		nCircle Network Security, Inc.
		Symantec Corporation

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BRIAN M. HOFFMAN

Partner,
Intellectual Property Group

P: 415.875.2484
F: 415.281.1350

bhoffman@fenwick.com

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