Mark A. Catan

Mark A. Catan is a patent attorney resident in the Tysons Corner office of Miles & Stockbridge P.C. Mr. Catan's practice includes strategic counseling, patent validity and infringement opinions, patent prosecution, IP transactions, and IP due diligence in support of mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Catan possesses broad industry and legal experience with expertise in the electrical, computer, and mechanical areas. His education emphasized signal processing and fluid mechanics. His industry background, which included 6 years as a Principal Investigator at Brookhaven National Lab, was in experimental R&D, primarily relating to alternative energy and energy recovery.

As an attorney, Mr. Catan has experience with mechanical devices and systems, including fluid mechanics; computer hardware including data compression, I/O systems, and data storage and software, including machine intelligence, computational semantics, and search and summarization; medical devices, including mechanical, such as vascular prostheses, dialysis, and medical imaging including MRI, ultrasound, and LCI.

Before joining Miles & Stockbridge, Mr. Catan was with the D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP and before that, with Lyon & Lyon in White Plains, NY.

• District of Columbia
• New York
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D. 1993.

State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) 1990.

Grinnell College, A.B. (Physics) 1978.

Intellectual Property & Technology

• Counseling
• E-Business & Technology
• Patents, Trademarks, Interferences & Prosecution
• Technology Transactions & Licensing

"Knowledge Exchange Issues In Open Innovation," Law 360 (Co-Author) (July 16, 2010).

"Why Good Patents Go Bad," Law360 (January 29, 2010).

"Issues Facing Faculty In Outside Consulting Jobs," Law360 (October 30, 2009).

"IP Strategy Based On Idealized Invention Interview," Law360 (September 2, 2009).

"IP Innovation In a Down Economy," Law360 (April 21, 2009).

"Patent Value, Be Skeptical," NCET2 (June 25, 2009).