Walter Nielsen -- Walt is a registered patent attorney having expertise in the areas of computer software and hardware, communications systems, semiconductor circuits and packaging, business methods, and electronics. Walt has a wide range of intellectual property experience, including three years as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, one-and-a-half years with AccuRay Inc.'s computer-based process control business, four years at Honeywell Inc.'s large computer system business, and twenty-one years at Motorola, Inc., where he founded Motorola's European Patent Department and was a Division Counsel for computer systems, new enterprises, and satellite telecommunications. He has been “Of Counsel” at Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner since 1999. His practice focuses on patent drafting, patent prosecution, and quality review. Walt is a member of the Arizona State Bar Intellectual Property Section and the Virginia Bar Association, and he is a former Board Member of the Arizona Patent Law Association.

Areas of Practice:

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

Bar Admissions:

• Arizona
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Virginia

Patent Services:

• Patent Prosecution

Education:

• George Washington University National Law Center, 1968
  • J.D.
  • With Honors
  • George Washington Law Review, Member
• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1964
  • B.S.
  • Major: Physics
• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1973
  • B.A. and B.M.
  • Major: German (B.A.) and Music Theory and Composition (B.M.)
• Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2007
  • Masters of Music
  • Clarinet Performance

Fraternities/Sororities:

• Phi Kappa Phi, 2007