Andre L. Marais
Attorney San Jose, California Shareholder
Andre Marais is a registered patent attorney and shareholder of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. His practice includes strategic IP counseling, patent prosecution (US and foreign), patent validity, infringement and clearance analysis and opinions, and IP due diligence work, particularly in the networking (including Internet), software, communications and electrical/electronic technologies. He has secured patents for, and currently represents, a number of prominent technology companies, based in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, including Germany and China.
- University of South Africa Faculty of Law, Pretoria, South Africa, 1993
- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1990
- Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial-Electronics)
• Member, California State Bar Association
• Member, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Association (SVIPLA)
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• US5841299 - Method and apparatus for selectively receiving write data within a write buffer of a host bridge
• US5758166 - Method and apparatus for implementing an adiabatic logic family
• US5963595 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a bit sequence for transmission over pots wiring
• US5982741 - Method and apparatus for automatically reducing cross-talk between wires coupled to a common network device
• US5987516 - Method of gathering information pertaining to calls between nodes in a connection-oriented network
• US6018742 - Constructing a bifurcated database of context-dependent and context-independent data items
• US6051029 - Method of generating a display for a dynamic simulation model utilizing node and link representations
• US6105065 - Method of displaying changes in call status between nodes within a connection-oriented network
• US6246718 - Method and apparatus for decoding a bit sequence for transmission over pots wiring
• US6381213 - Method and apparatus for detecting collisions on a network
• US6510463 - Service quality monitoring process
• US6523037 - Method and system for communicating selected search results between first and second entities over a network
• US6678321 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a symbol over pots wiring using a multi-cycle waveform
• US6684250 - Method and apparatus for estimating a geographic location of a networked entity
• US6735217 - Method and apparatus for detecting collisions on a network using multi-cycle waveform pulses
• US6839794 - Method and system to map a service level associated with a packet to one of a number of data streams at an interconnect device
• US6850961 - Method and system to perform a thread switching operation within a multithreaded processor based on detection of a stall condition
• US6961858 - Method and system to secure content for distribution via a network
• US6983237 - Method and apparatus for conducting linked simulation operations utilizing a computer-based system model
• US6985945 - Service quality monitoring process
• US6993137 - Method and system to securely distribute content via a network
• US7026935 - Method and apparatus to configure an rfid system to be adaptable to a plurality of environmental conditions
• US7440901 - Method and system to communicate agricultural product information to a consumer
Freedom-To-Operate and Portfolio Due Diligence (Moderated)
• 5th Annual IP Counsel Forum (San Jose 2009)
• Andre Marais, Francois de Villiers
Blood from the Stone: Extracting Invention Disclosures from Busy Engineers (Moderated)
• 6th Annual IP Counsel Forum (San Jose 2010)
• Andre Marais, Bill Becker, Kirk Goodwin, Eugene Kim
Freedom-to-Operate – Patent Landscape Analysis
• Web Cast (June 2009)
• Andre Marais, Joseph Wang
Capitalizing on Emerging Markets & Technologies (Moderated)
• SVASE (Palo Alto, 2006)
• Andre Marais, Deepak Kamra (Canaan Partners), Tony Parisi, Anne-Marie Roussel, Anthony Townsend
Patent Prosecution 101
• Law Seminars International's workshop entitled "Patent Law for Non-Patent Lawyers and Business Professionals” (San Francisco April 6, 2005)
• Andre Marais
KSR and its Aftermath
• IP Counsel Café (Palo Alto, 2010)
• Andre Marais, Jonathan Feuchtwang, Loren McRoss
