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Eric L. Sutton Download complete contact info (vcard format) Patents Mr. Sutton counsels small, medium, and large software and hardware companies in matters relating to patents, licensing, intellectual property planning, and risk assessment. Before his career in patent law, he developed educational and modeling software and hardware for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He remains active in the software community as he occasionally meets with software developers at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View or at SuperHappyDevHouse. Sub-specialties include three-dimensional modeling, query and document processing, system diagnosis and error recovery, and user interface design. |
Professional Background
| 2008–Present | Hickman Palermo Truong Becker Bingham Wong LLP |
| Summer 2012 | Adjunct professor, "Software Patents" course, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2007–2008 | Research Assistant in Patent Law at The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2006–2007 | Intellectual Property Intern in Champaign, Illinois |
| 2003–2005 | Software and Hardware Developer for The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois |
Educational Background
| 2008, J.D. | The John Marshall Law School (Chicago, Illinois) |
| 2005, B.S. | Mathematics and Psychology Computer Science University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) |
Bar Admissions
- California—2008
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
Publications and Lectures
- Co-authored with Christopher J. Palermo, “Failure to disclose contradictory European arguments dooms US patent in Therasense case,” CIPA Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, pgs. 163-165 (Mar. 2010).
- Hosted “Why Patents?” Lecture and Q&A at the Hacker Dojo in 2010
- Recognized for contribution to patent articles by Professor David L. Schwartz, including “Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases,” 107 Mich. L. Rev. 2 (November 2008); and “Courting Specialization: An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Comparing Patent Litigation Before Federal District Courts and the International Trade Commission” 50 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1699 (April 2009).
