Bradley A. Forrest
Attorney Minneapolis, Minnesota First Non-Founding Shareholder
Bradley Forrest is a shareholder of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. His practice is focused on patent prosecution for complex technologies, IP counseling and IP strategy formation, and opinion work and licensing. Brad received his B.S.E.E. in 1978 from the University of Minnesota, and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., 1981). During engineering and law school, Brad worked part-time for Honeywell International, Inc. creating computer simulations. From 1984-1993, Brad was with IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, as Counsel and Manager of the Intellectual Property Law Department where he identified several key inventions and wrote many important patents, including the RAID V patent, magneto-optic recording patents, networking patents, and basic patents covering server driven work processing, known as IPC. From 1994-1995 Brad was a Division Counsel and the Copyright and Trademark Counsel for IBM worldwide in New York. Recently, Brad was named by the American Intellectual Property Law Association {AIPLA) board as an AIPLA Fellow. Brad is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and has served on its Board of Governors. He was President (2001-2002) of the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association and past Committee Chair of the AIPLA Electronics and Computer Law Committee, and Emerging Technologies Committee of the AIPLA. Brad is an active international speaker and publisher on all areas of intellectual property protection.
- University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN, 1981
- University of Minnesota, 1978
- All Areas of Intellectual Property Protection
- "Various Titles, All Areas of Intellectual Property Protection"
AIPLA
• Fellow
• Past Chair of the Computer and Electronics Committee
• Past Chair of the Emerging Technologies Committee
• Frequent Road Show and Stated Meeting Speaker
IPO
• Software and Business Methods Committee
MIPLA
• CLE Chair
• Past President
MSBA
• Past Board of Governors
Computer/Architecture
• 4,649,473 - Flexible Data Transmission for Message Based Protocols (IPC)*
• 4,937,737 - Process Transparent Multi Storage Mode Data Transfer and Buffer Control*
• 5,179,699 - Partitioning of Sorted Lists for Multiprocessor Sort and Merge
• 4,774,657 - Index Key Range3 Estimator
• 4,933,847 - Microcode Branch Based Upon Operand Length and Alignment
• 6,070,007 - Method and System for Reducing an Intentional Program Tree Represented by High-Level
Computational Constructs
• 6,904,420 - Neuro/Fuzzy Hybrid Approach to Clustering Data
• 5,179,703 - Dynamically Adaptive Environment for Computer Programs
• 5,675,390 - Home Entertainment System Combining Complex Processor Capability with a High Quality Display
• 5,752,243 - Computer Method and Storage Structure for Storing and Accessing Multidimensional Data
• 4,755,932 - Interpreter Program for Providing Commands to a Computer Program Application Program
Storage Devices
• 4,761,785 - Parity Spreading to Enhance Storage Access* (RAID V)
• 4,649,519 - Self Biasing Thermal Magneto-Optic Medium*
• 4,676,672 - Precision Spindle
• 5,278,711 - Slider Bearing Design for Near Contact Magnetic Recording
Semiconductor/MEMS/Nanotechnology
• 6,953,740 - Highly Doped III-Nitride Semiconductors*
• 6,635,163 - Entropic Trapping and Sieving of Molecules*
• 6,953,958 - Electronic Gain Cell Based Charge Sensor
• 6,888,170 - Highly Doped III-Nitride Semiconductors
• 7,358,822 - MEMS Oscillator Drive
• 5,666,067 - Voltage Compensating CMOS Input Buffer Circuit
• 7,170,141 - Method for Monolithically Integrating Silicon Carbide Microelectromechanical Devices with Electronic Circuitry
• 6,715,353 - MEMS Gyroscope with Parametric Gain
• 5,725,739 - Low Angle, Low Energy Physical Vapor Deposition of Alloys
• 4,594,504 - Light Modulating Sensor in a Vortex Shedding Flowmeter
Communications
• 4,954,965 - Enhanced Frame Utilization for CSMA/CD Communication Protocol*
• 4,965,772 - Method and Apparatus for Communication Network Alert Message Construction *
• 7,251,290 - Adaptive Controller for Linearization of Transmitter
Medical Devices
• 6,921,253 - Dual Chamber Micropump Having Checkvalves
* Really Cool or Valuable
• Honeywell, Inc., 1978-1980
• Rosemount, Inc., Patent Attorney, 1981-1984
• IBM, Rochester, Minnesota, Counsel, Manager, Intellectual Property Law Department, 1984-1993
• IBM, New York, Division Counsel, Copyright and Trademark Counsel, 1994-1995
