Curtis, Anthony

Tony Curtis is a registered patent attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. His practice includes patent procurement, portfolio management and strategic counseling in a wide range of electrical, software, and mechanical technologies. Tony previously worked as senior counsel in patent operations and portfolio management in the communications field at Verizon and Motorola Solutions. He has worked on diverse technology, including various forms of short and long-range telecommunication devices, systems, and software (e.g., apps, internal and external network communications both network and IT), healthcare related software and devices, big data analysis and usage, internetrelated software including advertising, and business methods.

Tony received dual B.S. degrees in EE and Physics from MIT, MS’s in EE and Physics from Princeton and U of Illinois, respectively, a Ph.D. in EE from U of Illinois and a J.D. from Loyola Chicago. His Ph.D. focused on the determination of characteristics at native oxide-semiconductor interfaces for compound semiconductors using time resolved spectroscopy. In addition, Tony was honored as a recipient of the First Chair best in-house patent counsel and co-presented the ABA roundtable on patent exhaustion and strategies.

Tony is on the Planning Committee for the Patent Prosecution Boot Camp.