I am a patent, IP, and technology attorney with more than 15 years of legal experience and expertise in many technology areas including medical devices, software (including AI/ML technologies such as LLMs and Generative AI), defense, and electronics. I focus on IP counseling, patent strategy, licensing and IP agreements, IP and data rights issues in government contracting, IP diligence and opinions, managing and mitigating risk associated with integration of AI/ML technologies, managing open source software compliance risk, and FDA 510(k) regulatory strategy. I became a patent agent in 2009, and am a partner at Knobbe Martens, an Intellectual Property law firm. (More details regarding my practice may be found on my Knobbe bio page.)
I studied law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where I was the Internet Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review. I was a teaching assistant for Legal Writing & Analysis, and took a number of intensive, practical IP courses including patent prosecution, patent litigation, and the patent clinic.
I have a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a student at Illinois, I developed improved methods of algorithmic circuit synthesis. My advisor was Deming Chen in the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Prior to starting law school I worked as an engineer intern at Jazz Semiconductor (now Tower Semiconductor) in the Device Modeling & Support group. At Jazz I helped develop methods for evaluating foundry device models and outputs.
In my free time I enjoy building things and playing with my kids, watching movies, reading, waterskiing, and coding.
Contact
Feel free to contact me by email at scromar@gmail.com.