Peter D. Mlynek

We help to solve clients’ business problems by providing legal and business advice related to intellectual property. Although not limited in industries that we serve, we specializing in working with clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology business sectors. Our services include • Business Counseling: planning, developing and executing a patenting strategy that is consistent with the clients’ business goals. • US patents: drafting and prosecuting patent applications to clients’ inventions. • International Patents: working through non-US law firms to obtain patents in countries and areas around the globe. • Opinions: preparing freedom to operate opinions, patent invalidity opinions, infringement opinions, and due diligence analysis associated with M&A transactions. • Licensing of intellectual property. • Non-Patent IP Protection: by securing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

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New Jersey

Since 2006

Pennsylvania

Since 2007

USPTO

Since 2001

Rutgers University - Camden

J.D. (2007) | Law

2002 - 2006

Honors: • Dean's List multiple semesters • A/A+/A- grades in Patent Law I, Patent Law II, Patent Prosecution Seminar, Drug & Device Law, Food & Drug Administration Law

Activities: President of the Rutgers Intellectual Property Law Association

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Ph.D. (1996) | Inorganic Chemistry

1987 - 1996

Activities: • Thesis: "Synthesis, Isolation, and Characterization of Variety of High Nuclearity Nickel-Antimony, Nickel-Bismuth, and Nickel Copper Carbonyl Clusters". Such clusters may model catalytic active sites in metal catalyzed reactions. • Major: Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry • Minor: Analytical Chemistry. Classes in electrochemistry, spectroscopy, laser physics, chromatography. • 5 academic papers. • Synthesized organometallic and metal cluster compounds under anaerobic conditions via Schlenk equipment, drybox, as well as traditional organic synthetic techniques. • Isolated and purified compounds by solvent extraction, liquid chromatography, and crystallization. • Characterized compounds by multinuclear NMR, CV, HPLC, AA, MS, XRF, IR, and X-ray single crystal crystallography. • Developed new synthetic routes to organic ligands that were used as starting materials.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

MBA (1993) | Finance, Investments, and Banking

1987 - 1996

Activities: • 20 Graduate level classes in Business and related fields

University of California - Berkeley

B.S. (1987) | Chemistry

1983 - 1987

Activities: • Course work in all chemistry disciplines, including graduate level classes. • Four semesters of research in bio-inorganic chemistry: synthesized, isolated and characterized non-heme iron dioxygenase model compounds.

Q. 12 in 1 Quick Load Ratcheting Screwdriver by Husky - Can you please check if this specific product has an active patent?

August 28, 2024

A: Take a look at the package. There should be some information on it about patents. Or there should be a website, shick would have that information.

Q. Why are patents sold to companies who hate them and have no intention of sharing them with humanity?

August 28, 2024

A: That is a very good question. Patent lawyers may have their own views on answering this question, but this is a question about public policy, which may be answered by an economist or a knowledgeable policy expert.

Here a few of my thoughts to answer your question.

- Companies may buy patents to get rid off the competition. They buy the patent so that nobody can make the competing product of service cheaper.

This is a part of the plot of the 1974 James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun”, where an inventor of a solar cell may sell the rights to oil sheik to not undercut their petroleum profits.

. Sometimes companies purchase the patent with the idea of monetizing it, but for various reasons it turns out that the products or services covered by the patent are not economicaly viable.

- In some countries, there is a system of compulsory licenses. The owner of the patent must practice the invention within a certain time of getting a patent, lest the owner be forced to license the patent to others who want to practice it.

- There are also firms that do not produce anything, but that buy patents with the sole purpose to suing companies and idividuals who happen to infringe on such a patent. The activities of these firms commonly called "non-practicing entities" or "patent trolls" have been curtailed recently by legislation. ... Read More

Q. What Patents do Solatube International hold in South Africa if any in regards Tubular skylights and ventilation systems

March 15, 2024

A: Here are some of the patents that Solatube Int'l Inc. has in South Africa:

ZA2012/00018 - SKYLIGHT COLLIMATOR WITH MULTIPLE STAGES

ZA2012/00569 - SKYLIGHT COVER WITH PRISMATIC DOME AND CYLINDER PORTIONS

ZA2012/04238 - DIRECT AND INDIRECT LIGHT DIFFUSING DEVICES AND METHODS

ZA2012/09258 - THERMALLY INSULATING FENESTRATION DEVICES AND METHODS

To provide you with an opinion whether any of these cover any particular Tubular skylights or ventilation systems would take some work.

Good luck!