Ann
M.
McCrackin
Attorney
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Of Counsel
Attorney
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Of Counsel
| phone | (612) 349-9592 |
| fax | (612) 339-3061 |
| amccrackin@slwip.com | |
| vcard | ann-mccrackin.vcf |
Ann McCrackin is a registered patent attorney 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.
Areas of Practice:
Bar Admissions:
Education:
- Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 1997
- J.D.
- Law Journal: IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology, Senior Editor
- Iowa State University, 1992
- B.S.
- Major: Speech Communication Major: Computer Science Major: English
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association
• Past Chairman WIPLA, Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Licensing Executives Society
• 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
• "Patent Basics", University of Minnesota Super CLE Week, 2006
• "International Practice Tips", Presented to the Women in Intellectual Property committee of MIPLA, 2005
• "Advanced Patent Prosecution: International Practice Tips", Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association, 2004
• "37 C.F.R. 1.105 Requirement for Information", MIPLA Ethics and Elimination of Bias CLE Seminar, 2003
• "Claim Strategies for Nanotechnology", presented to the Emerging Technologies/Internet Committee at the AIPLA annual meeting, 2002
• "Introduction to Bioinformatics", Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Software & Digital Media Course, 2002
• "Foreign Filing Basics", AUTM Central Regional Meeting, 2001
• Center for Advanced Technology Development (CATD), Iowa State University, Software Licensing Assistant
• Corporate Licensing Office, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, Intern
