Mr. Pinchak has extensive experience in both prosecuting and litigating patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Practicing in the mechanical and electrical arts, Mr. Pinchak has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in diverse technologies including power driven rotary knives, bar code readers and scanners, medical, automotive and consumer product devices and business methods. Mr. Pinchak’s litigation experience includes representing clients in numerous federal district courts in patent, trademark and copyright cases, as well as before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Pinchak also has appellate experience, appearing before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and the Patent Board of Appeals and Interferences. His reported decisions include L.D. Kichler Co. v. Davoil, Inc., 192 F.3d 1349, 52USPQ 2d 1307 (Fed.Cir. 1999) and In re Lundgren, 76 USPQ 2d 1385 (BPAI 2004).
Education:
• B.I.E., summa cum laude, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 1978 (Tau Beta Pi – National Engineering Honor Society)
• B.S.E.E.T., summa cum laude, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 1998
• M.B.A., Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 1981 (Beta Gamma Sigma – National Business Management Honor Society)
• J.D., magna cum laude, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1991 (Executive Editor, Cleveland State Law Review, 1990-1991, Recipient of Charles Auerbach Memorial Award in Evidence, Recipient of Federal Bar Association Award in Constitutional Law)
Admissions:
• State of Ohio, 1991
• Registered before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992
• U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio, 1992
• U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1997
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2005
