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Biography
Zachary Cleary advises global technology leaders and start-ups alike to develop comprehensive, strategy-driven patent portfolios in a variety of technology areas. His creative approach helps clients protect their products with utility patents, design patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
Zachary prepares and prosecutes high-quality provisional, nonprovisional, US national stage and international patent applications to suit his clients’ needs. Using the latest patent/examiner data analytics tools guided by 14 years of industry experience, Zachary steers patent applications to allowance while enhancing their value in a cost-effective manner. Zachary has submitted multiple appeal briefs to the USPTO to reverse “abstract idea” rejections and protect his clients’ software products.
In addition, Zachary’s experience includes consumer devices, medical devices and clinic software, petroleum engineering, audio/acoustic technology, graphic user interfaces, rocket fuel injectors, cash distribution machines, telecommunication networks, power distribution/management systems, smart grid network devices, fiber optic systems, steel-ceramic composite armor for tanks, water filtration systems, artificial intelligence/machine-learning systems, predictive analytics, e-commerce, automated tax/insurance technology, large-scale data management, drones, robotics, cranial implants, genetics, biotech software (AI/ML), Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, furniture and appliances, industrial/aesthetic designs, graphics processing for video games and indoor farming systems. Hundreds of patent portfolios across industries have reached commercial success with Zachary’s guidance.
Zachary also has experience as an in-house research and test engineer for a telecom equipment manufacturing firm where he designed product tests, performed competitive patent landscape analyses, drafted invention disclosures and managed a large patent portfolio. Today, he leverages this in-house experience with his physics background and passion for technology to develop and monetize forward-looking patent portfolios which secure his clients' competitive advantages.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, University of Washington School of Law, 2018
BS, Physics, Gonzaga University, 2011
- US Patent and Trademark Agent
- Washington State Bar
- Drafted and prosecuted multiple patents to protect 3GPP fifth-generation (5G) technologies.
- Developed a large patent portfolio protecting directional microphone arrays for voice-activated Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
- Turned a received cease and desist letter into a successful dual-licensing program between two telecommunication manufacturing firms.
- Drafted and prosecuted multiple patent applications to protect steel-ceramic composite tank armor, collapsible shelters and other military-related technologies.
- Drafted and prosecuted multiple patent applications for a global e-commerce company protecting their cloud computing platform and consumer IoT products.
- Generated patent landscape reports for competitor analyses and to identify open space for directed patent prosecution.
- Drafted and prosecuted multiple patent applications protecting smart-grid power distribution technologies.
- Drafted and filed multiple appeal briefs overturning $101 “abstract idea” rejections at the patent trial and appeals board (PTAB) to successfully protect software technologies.
- Developed an international portfolio with assets in 10 countries for a US patent application acquired by a global technology company.
- Drafted and filed multiple design patents to protect makeup applicators and compacts for a global packaging design company.
- Facilitated patent prosecution for a joint venture between a global telecommunications company and a smaller technology company.
- Developed valuable patent portfolios in the US and internationally for multiple startup companies.
- As an engineer for a telecommunications manufacturing firm, I designed, tested and released power distribution products and fiber optic distribution products.
- Wei, H., Cleary, Z., Park, S., Senevirathne, K., & Eilers, H. (2010). Fluorescence lifetime modification in Eu: Lu2O3 nanoparticles in the presence of silver nanoparticles. Journal of alloys and compounds, 500(1), 96-101.
- Presenter, "Designing the Future: Protecting Aesthetic Innovations in the Metaverse with Design Patents and Trademarks," Celesq, October 4, 2023
- Presenter, “Intellectual Property Considerations,” University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Blackstone LaunchPad Speaker Series, August 17, 2022
- Speaker, “Enter the Metaverse: How to Protect your IP,” Annual Business Law Institute, Nashville, June 21, 2022
- YMCA Camp Reed Advisory Board