Mark Wieczorek
Partner
Mr. Wieczorek's practice includes client counseling in all phases of intellectual property development. In particular, his practice emphasizes patent prosecution, patent strategy and analysis, and the development and management of patent portfolios. His technical expertise is in physics, materials science, and engineering. He has prepared and prosecuted numerous patents involving electronic circuits and devices; semiconductor materials, devices and fabrication; instruments and devices in medical diagnosis and treatment; computer hardware and software; wireless communication devices and systems; and all areas of physics including solid-state physics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, mechanics, optics, atomic and molecular physics. He joined Mayer & Williams in 2005. Mr. Wieczorek began his legal career in 1992 as a law clerk with the intellectual property law firm of Kenyon & Kenyon. While there he drafted patent applications, conducted validity and infringement analyses, and provided technical support for patent litigation. In 1996, Mr. Wieczorek joined Fish & Richardson as a patent attorney, where he prosecuted patent applications, conducted infringement and validity studies, counseled clients in patent strategy matters, and conducted several investigations for current, pending and potential litigations. He advised individuals, start-up companies, universities and research institutes, and large technology and manufacturing companies, in all phases of patent portfolio development and management.
In 1998 Mr. Wieczorek became Director of Intellectual Property and Corporate Counsel for Innercool Therapies, an early-stage medical device company. While there, he advised the company in all aspects of patent portfolio management and licensing, as well as representing the company during several due diligence investigations for multiple rounds of financing. He counseled the company in negotiating numerous agreements, including licensing agreements, clinical trial site agreements, personnel agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and vendor and supplier agreements. In 2006, Dr. Wieczorek was instrumental in coordinating intellectual property aspects of the sale of Innercool Therapies to Cardium Therapeutics, a publicly-traded biotechnology company.
Mr. Wieczorek was a claim-drafting instructor for Patent Resources Group and a guest lecturer at the University of California at San Diego in patent law, has given several invited talks on patent law, , and is a past president of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association.
Education
- J.D., George Washington University Law School, with high honors, 1995
- Ph.D., Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1992
- M.A., Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1989
- B.S., Applied Physics, Caltech, 1987
Bar Admissions
- California
- Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office