Suneel Arora
Attorney Minneapolis, Minnesota Shareholder
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."
- 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
- Named one of fifteen "Up and Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer and has also been recognized as a "Super Lawyer."
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American Intellectual Property Law Association
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Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
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Colorado Bar Association
• "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
• 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
• 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
• "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 2004 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 Wm. Mitchell Law Rev. 1501, 1999 "
