Alan G. Rego

Patent & Trademark Attorney

Contact Info

Alan G. Rego has extensive experience in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in areas of technology that include electrical, electronics, software, control methods, e-commerce, business methods and mechanical arts. Alan strives to actively collaborate with client’s engineers and scientists to enhance the content of patent applications and responses to examiner’s rejections to help ensure that suitable coverage is obtained for inventions. He has been named a 2006 Minnesota &Rising Star& for Intellectual Property Law by Super Lawyers magazine. Alan received his Juris Doctorate from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, which is now the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He received his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and graduated from the Bangalore University in India with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering.

Bar Admissions

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Minnesota State Bar

Education

Franklin Pierce Law Center, JD (2000)
University of Bridgeport, M.S. Electrical Engineering (1992)
Bangalore University, B.S. Electrical Engineering (1990)

Professional Affiliations

Member, Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, Minnesota State Bar Association

Honors

Named 2006 Minnesota “Rising Star” for Intellectual Property Law by Super Lawyers magazine

Areas of Practice

Patent preparation and prosecution
Patent portfolio management and strategy
Portfolio Analysis
Freedom to operate
Validity/non-infringement opinions

Areas of Technical Expertise

Electrical
Electronics
Software
Control methods
Business methods
e-commerce
Mechanical Devices

Exemplary Patents

8,699,184; Self-aligned bevels for write poles
8,645,641; Intelligent storage device controller
8,635,491; Storage device maintenance in a portable device based on a power event
8,631,204; Multi-resolution cache monitoring
8,442,877; Simplification of inventory management
8,433,624; Mobile item-purchasing system
8,422,177; Reader shield with tilted magnetizatio
8,335,897; Data storage management in heterogeneous memory systems
8,326,799; Data distribution in systems with multiple storage entities
8,027,119; Vibration detection and compensation filter
7,965,459; Wavelets-based detection of proximity between a sensor and an object
7,689,624; Graph-based search leveraging sentiment analysis of user comments
7,677,815; Photographic device with retractable lens
7,545,375; View-dependent displacement mapping