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We are an intellectual property law firm, specializing in patent, tardemark and copyright matters. The best way to reach us is to send us an email.

Our areas of technical experience include:

We also prepare and prosecute trademark applications, as well as practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. 

Our professionals:
                               
Maria Eliseeva        Maria Eliseeva has been practicing IP law for about 15 years. She holds two Master's Degrees in science and
        engineering 
(in Physics and in Material Science and Engineering). She did her university diploma work, research
        and masters' studies under the chairmanship of Alexey A. Abrikosov, a winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics.
        She worked as a research scientist at the RU Academy of Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry and Technologies
        of Inorganic Materials) for about 3 years. After graduating from State University of New York School of Law, Maria was
         with large firms in NY, Minneapolis and Boston. She has co-founded her own  firm in 2003. Maria has been a chair of the
         Electronic Business Committee and International Law Committee of the American Intellectual Law Association, as well as
         a Vice-Chair of the Licensing Committee. She is a
registered US Patent Attorney. She is bilingual in English and Russian.
       

Ilya Lapshin        Ilya Lapshin is a registered US Patent Attorney; Ilya graduated from 
        MIT with majors in Physics/EE and Mathematics, and from Boston University 
        with a JD degree.
He studied at the department of Physics of Gorky University 
        in Russia. He worked as a researcher at Harvard University Medical School,    
        IBM Watson Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. His area of
        expertise is Nuclear Physics, Optics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Programming.
.      Ilya is admitted to Massachusetts bar. Ilya is bilingual in English and Russian.



Berta Lugina        Berta Lugina has been a Patent Agent for more than 30 years, experienced in all aspects
        of patent prosecution, including appellate work, with emphasis on high-technology areas, such as
        physics, EE and mechanical engineering.
She graduated from Polytechnical Univeristy in Nizhny
        Novgorod, Russia. In addition to her three-decade long patent prosecution experience, she was the head of
        the Patent Department at Radio-Physical Research Institute and the Principal IP Specialist at the Institute of
        Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, both in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She was inhouse
        patent counsel at a company commercializing medical imaging devices based on OCT technology. Berta has an
        M.S.Patent degree from Russian Institute of Intellectual Property. She is bilingual in English and Russian.


Ekaterina Rogacheva        Ekaterina Rogacheva is a Patent Agent, she has a B.S. degree in Physics from Leningrad
        Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. degree in Optical Devices and Systems,
and a Ph.D. in Physics of
        Semiconductors and Dielectrics from
St. Petersburg State Technical University. She was a researcher
        at the
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in St. Petersburg and at the Department of Electronics of the
        Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She also worked as a patentability analyst, conducting
        searches and preparing International Search Reports and In
ternational Preliminary Reports on
        Patentability for a US PTO contractor. She is bilingual in English and Russian with a basic knowledge
        of Swedish.


Olga Malkova        Olga Malkova is a technical specialist. She has a B.S. and a M.Sc. degrees in Biophysics from the
        Institute of Physics and Technilogy  in Russ
ia (Физтех). She worked as a researcher at the Bioelectrochemistry
        Laboratory of the RU Academy of Sciences  Institute of Electrochemistry in collaboration with Cygnus Therapeutic
        Systems of Redwood City, CA. She was a research associate at the Rockefeller University (Flow Cytometry
        Resource Center), a Scientist at Pfizer in Chesterfields, MO, and a Scientist at the Washington University in St. Louis
        Department of Pathology and Immunology.      

        


Catherne Stalbo        Catherine Stalbo is a paralegal in our group. She graduated summa cum laude with an M.A. degree in
        Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication from St. Petersburg Institute of Foreign Languages.
        Catherine spent about 10 years working with international publishing houses, where she handled several dozens
        of multi-language online scholarly projects. She started as a project manager in the Russian and Dutch offices
        of a Dutch publisher. Later Catherine became a representative of another Netherlands-based publisher in Russia,
        she served as a liaison between the Dutch and American offices and the company's Russian and European clients. 

        Catherine is trilingual in English, Russian and Spanish, and she is also an accomplished pianist.

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