Ann M. McCrackin is a registered patent attorney and shareholder of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. Her practice focuses on computer architecture, software, and business methods. Ann also specializes in international patent protection and reexamination practice.

Ann is a co-editor and contributing author for Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice, a treatise published by BNA Books. Ann is frequently invited to speak on various patent prosecution topics.

Representative Issued Patents Drafted by Ann McCrackin:

U.S. Pat. No. 6,196,459--Smart Card Personalization in a Multistation
Environment

U.S. Pat. No. 6,253,310--Delayed Deallocation of an Arithmetic Flags
Register

U.S. Pat. No. 6,480,993--Accurate Layout Modeling for Centerline-Based
Detail Routing

U.S. Pat. No. 6,484,134--Property Coverage in Formal Verification

U.S. Pat. No. 6,519,685--Cache States for Multiprocessor Cache
Coherency Protocols

U.S. Pat. No. 6,529,928--Floating-Point Adder Performing Floating-Point
and Integer Operations

U.S. Pat. No. 6,564,369--Conflict Checking Using Configuration Images

U.S. Pat. No. 6,883,047--Concurrent Asynchronous USB Data Stream
Destuffer with Variable Width Bit-Wise Memory Controller