Suneel
Arora
Attorney
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Shareholder
Attorney
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Shareholder
| phone | (612) 373-6951 |
| fax | (612) 339-3061 |
| sarora@slwip.com | |
| vcard | suneel-arora.vcf |
Suneel Arora is a registered patent attorney and a shareholder of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner P.A. His practice includes strategic counseling and patent procurement in electrical, software, mechanical, and biomedical technologies.
Previously, Suneel was a Senior Engineer at Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., a division of Guidant Corp., where he designed low-power integrated circuits for power conversion and regulation, precision references, switched-capacitor filters, and analog-to-digital converters used in implantable pacemakers and defibrillators.
After receiving his J.D. (summa cum laude; class valedictorian) from William Mitchell College of Law (1999), Suneel was a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Paul A. Magnuson, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota (1999-2000), where he worked primarily in the areas of patent, copyright, and trademark infringement and validity, but also in the areas of commercial transactions and securities, government contracts, franchise law, employment law, and constitutional violations.
Suneel is one of only 19 U.S. patent attorneys chosen to receive a 2013 Client Choice award winner. These awards survey senior corporate counsel only, with this year’s winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 individual client assessments. This year 355 individual winners across 70 jurisdictions were recognized. In the United States 222 attorneys were recognized and only 19 of those were patent lawyers. Suneel is one of five attorneys from Minnesota selected, and he is the only patent attorney in that group.
In addition to the Client Choice award, Suneel was recognized as a 2013 "IP Star" by Managing Intellectual Property and was also chosen as one of fifteen "Up and Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer.
Areas of Practice:
Bar Admissions:
Patent Services:
Education:
- William Mitchell College of Law, St Paul, MN, 1999
- J.D.
- Summa Cum Laude
- Class Valedictorian
- Law Review: William Mitchell Law Review, Staff Member
- University of Minnesota, 1990
- B.E.E.
Honors and Awards:
- Named one of fifteen "Up and Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer
- Recognized as a Minnesota "Super Lawyer" from 2009 - 2012
- 2013 Client Choice award winner
- 2013 "IP Star" by Managing Intellectual Property
Professional Associations and Memberships:
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
- Colorado Bar Association
“Interplay Between Patent Law and FDA Law: Are You Clear When Your Device Clears?”, University of Minnesota Design of Medical Devices Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 9, 2013
“Creating a Living Freedom-To-Operate Map”, American Conference Institute’s Advanced Summit on Medical Device Patents, Chicago, IL, March 6, 2013
"The 501(k) Process and Patentability: Reformulating Patent Strategies in Light of Changes in the Regulatory Approval Process," American Conference Institute's Advanced Summit on Medical Device Patents, Boston, MA., Feb. 27, 2012
“The Patent Prosecution Highway: Don't Get Caught Sleeping On The Shoulder," The Rapid Evolution of IP Law Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, October 6, 2011 • “Next Generation Freedom To Operate,” LifeSciences Alley Research & Development 101 seminar, Minneapolis, MN, May 24, 2011.
"Patent Protection for Medical Devices: Law and Strategy -- The Interplay of FDA Law and Patent Law," April 6, 2011, Minnesota State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education • "Commercializing New Technology, Begin With the End In Mind: Intellectual Property Considerations,” LifeScience Alley, October 27, 2010, Minneapolis, MN
"Preparing or Evaluating Non-Infringement and Other Patent Opinions," Midwest Intellectual Property Institute, September 26, 2006
"Preparing or Evaluating Freedom to Operate, Non-infringement, and Invalidity Opinions for a Business Transaction," Minnesota CLE, May 18, 2005
"Export Control Constraints on Offshore Patent Preparation and Prosecution," AIPLA Spring Meeting, 2004
7,479,112 – Acoustic Physiological Sensor
7,467,009; 6,892,092 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System with Noise Detector Utilizing a Hysteresis Providing Threshold
7,447,388; 7,245,789 – Systems and Methods for Minimally Invasive Optical-Acoustic Imaging
7,440,803 – Closed Loop Impedance-Based Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Systems, Devices, and Methods
7,421,294 – System and Method for Preventing Recurrence of Atrial Tachyarrhythmia
7,387,610 – Thoracic Impedance Detection with Blood Resistivity Compensation
7,386,344 – Pacer with Combined Defibrillator Tailored for Bradycardia Patients
7,346,382 – Brain Stimulation Models, Systems, Devices, and Methods
7,336,998 – External Discrimination Between Pace Pulses at Different Heart Locations
7,248,919 ; 6,678,547 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System Using Time-Domain Heart Rate Variability Indicia
7,245,969; 6,665,564 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System Selecting A-V Delay Based on Interval Between Atrial Depolarization and Mitral Valve Closure
7,239,913; 6,704,598 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System Selecting Between Multiple Same-Chamber Electrodes for Delivering Cardiac Therapy
7,239,146 – Indicator of Remaining Energy in Storage Cell of Implantable Medical Device
7,228,176 – Systems, Devices, and Methods for Tachyarrhythmia Discrimination or Therapy Decisions
7,228,175 – Cardiac Rhythm Management Systems and Methods Using Acoustic Contractility Indicator
7,218,971; 6,304,786 – Implantable Lead with Dissolvable Coating for Improved Fixation and Extraction
7,215,993 – Cardiac Rhythm Management Systems and Methods for Detecting or Validating Cardiac Beats in the Presence of Noise
7,204,840 – Deep Organ Access Device and Method
7,194,308 – System and Method for Monitoring or Reporting Battery Status of Implantable Medical Device
7,191,006 – Cardiac Rhythm Management Systems and Methods for Rule-Illustrative Parameter Entry
7,191,000; 7,177,681 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System for Edema
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., Guidant Corporation, Senior Engineer, 1988 - 1995 • Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner and Kluth, P.A., Registered Patent Agent, 1995 - 1999
Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., Summer Associate, 1998
Chief Judge Paul A. Magnuson, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, Judicial Law Clerk, 1999 - 2000
"The Interplay Between FDA and Patent Law: Infusing Organizational Knowledge for Medical Device Companies," Suneel Arora, Timothy Christman, Ashley Mays and Andrew Schmidt, Vol. 39:4, William Mitchell Law Review, 1176-1206, May 2013
"Can Beauregard Claims Show You the Money?" Ryan Sharp, Suneel Arora and Greg Stark, Cybaris Intellectual Property Law Review of William Mitchell College of Law, July 2011
“The Next Generation of Freedom-To-Operate,” Gregory W. Smock and Suneel Arora, Midwest Intellectual Property Law Institute, September 24, 2010
"Pulling It All Together -- Preparing The Freedom to Operate and Non-Infringement Opinions"
"Preparing or Evaluating Non-Infringement and Other Patent Opinions," Midwest Intellectual Property Institute, September 26, 2006
"Preparing or Evaulating Freedom to Operate, Non-Infringement, and Invalidity Opinions for a Business Transaction," Intellectual Property Today, Aug at 32 (Part I)
"Preparing or Evaluating Freedom to Operate, Non-infringement, and Invalidity Opinions for a Business Transaction," Minnesota CLE, May 18, 2005
"Export Control Constraints on Offshore Patent Preparation and Prosecution," AIPLA Spring Meeting, 2004
"Steering Method Claims Toward the Claim Interpretation You Intended, After Masco v. United States," Intellectual Property Today, November, 2003
"Fraud and Misrepresentation Claims Under Minnesota's Economic Loss Doctrine after AKA Distrib. Co. v. Whirlpool Corp. and the 1998 Legislative Amendments for Marvin Windows," 25 William Mitchell Law Review, 1501, 1999
