Attorney Profile

Ann M. 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:

• Bioinformatics
• Business Methods
• Computer Hardware & Design
• Electrical
• Software

Bar Admissions:

• Minnesota
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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

Representative Issued Patents:

• 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

Presentations, Seminars, and Classes:

• "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

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association
• Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Past Chairman, Women in Intellec
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Licensing Executives Society

Past Employment Positions:

• Center for Advanced Technology Development (CATD), Iowa State University, Software Licensing Assistant
• Corporate Licensing Office, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, Intern