Attorney Suneel Arora, Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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. Suneel received his J.D. (summa cum laude; class valedictorian) from William Mitchell College of Law (1999). Suneel was also 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 has been recognized as one of fifteen "Up and Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer and as a "Super Lawyer."

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Bar Admissions:

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.

Representative Issued Patents:

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

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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
7,186,220 – Implantable Devices and Methods Using Frequency-Domain Analysis of Thoracic Signal
7,177,685 – Classifying Tachyarrhythmia Using Time Interval Between Ventricular Depolarization and Mitral Valve Closure
7,154,153; 6,031,263 - DEAPROM and transistor with gallium nitride or gallium aluminum nitride gate
7,133,720; 6,963,776 – Cardiac Rhythm Management System Synchronizing Atrial Shock to Ventricular Depolarization Based on Length of Sensing Refractory
7,127,290 – Cardiac Rhythm Management Systems and Methods Predicting Congestive Heart Failure Status

Published Works:

"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 Wm. Mitchell Law Rev. 1501, 1999
"Steering Method Claims Toward the Claim Interpretation You Intended, After Masco v. United States", Intellectual Property Today, November, 2003
"Export Control Constraints on Offshore Patent Preparation and Prosecution", AIPLA 2004 Spring Meeting, 2004
"Preparing or Evaluating Freedom to Operate, Non-infringement, and Invalidity Opinions for a Business Transaction", Minnesota CLE, May 18, 2005
"Preparing or Evaulating Freedom to Operate, Non-Infringement, and Invalidity Opinions for a Business Transaction", Intellectual Property Today, Aug at 32 (Part I)

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Honors and Awards:

Named one of fifteen "Up and Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer and has also been recognized as a "Super Lawyer."

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Intellectual Property Law Association
Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association

Past Employment Positions:

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

phone	(612) 373-6951
fax	(612) 339-3061
email	sarora@slwip.com

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