Jeremy Dukmen

Jeremy M. Dukmen focuses on helping clients develop and implement comprehensive IP strategies tailored to address their specific business goals including drafting and prosecuting utility and design patents both in the United States and other countries.

He helps clients optimize the use of their resources to protect important commercial products in a range of mechanical fields. Jeremy also helps clients with post-grant issues in the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining the firm, Jeremy was a patent attorney at a national law firm where he focused his practice on patent procurement in the mechanical field including the medical device industry, powered lift and hoist technology, defensive fortifications, and hardscaping.

Jeremy earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College. Jeremy earned his law degree, cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law.

EXPERIENCE :

• Worked with a multinational medical device company in various technological areas, including the spine, trauma, and craniomaxillofacial divisions.  Provided patent procurement services, freedom-to-operate assessments, analysis of patent portfolios in view of client and competitor commercial products, and drafting and prosecution of claim language to cover both client and competitor commercial products.
• Analyzed intelligence on targeted commercial products and prosecuted multiple applications related to obtaining protection and coverage. Prosecuted multiple Track One priority applications, resulting in the identification of allowable subject matter within one year of the filing date of the application.
• Worked with a medium-sized U.S. manufacturing company relating to its technologies, including defensive barricades deployed by branches of the U.S. military. Advised in-house counsel on strategies for acquiring a patent portfolio that provides value as a business tool, protecting the client’s commercial products while preventing competitors from copying those commercial products.
• Represented a patentee of wireless location technology in an infringement action that was affirmed in 2010 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, maintaining a mid-eight-figure award, counsel fees, and an injunction.

EDUCATION :

• Villanova University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2008
• Lafayette College, B.S., magna cum laude, 2005

BAR ADMISSIONS : Pennsylvania

COURT ADMISSIONS :

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

AFFILIATIONS :

• Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association