Sean O’Dowd
Partner
Sean works with clients on all aspects of their intellectual property needs, with particular emphasis in the areas of patent counseling and procurement, patent licensing, and support of litigation and transactional matters. Sean is currently most active in high-voltage electronics, mobile device hardware and software, semiconductor fabrication, medicine delivery systems, graphical user interfaces, and network architecture and management.
Sean guides engineers and scientists out of the deepest technical forests while translating equations and pseudocode to plain English for patent protection. And he quickly provides business-minded executives with bottom-line conclusions without technical or legal jargon.
Representative Work
- Implementing and managing global patent and trademark protection programs
- Managing design-around efforts, due diligence, freedom-to-operate, and other patent analysis associated with new product releases, mergers and acquisitions, and investments.
Education
- J.D., Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, Cum Laude
- Associate Articles Editor, Arizona State Law Journal
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico
Admissions
- Colorado
- US District Court for the District of Colorado
- United States Patent and Trademark Office