Heyman IP LLC

A record of successful patent portfolio development and management for fortune 500 technology and innovation-forward companies. Decades of experience spans patent examination, drafting, prosecution, analysis, licensing, and litigation.

• Leonard Heyman worked as a patent examiner, and primary patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark office from 1991-1996.
• Leonard has experience preparing and filing for patent applications for several boutique IP firms, having worked on inventions for pro se scientist-inventors to multinational and Fortune 500 companies.
• Leonard worked as an in-house attorney for one of the most successful computer infrastructure management and software companies in the world (VMware) from 2007-2024. In that role, Leonard was a key contributor to building a 6,500+ patent portfolio recognized as among the most powerful by IEEE.
• Leonard have been intimately involved in several high-stakes patent infringement litigations.

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• Finding your "dark arts" expert. – How to know if your patent attorney is really any good.
• Fish or Cut Bait: Objective Assessment verses Data Analytics – Thoughts on patent data analytics.
• Keeping cool in the face of difficult "officers." – How to handle difficult examiners.
• Patent Law is Not Like Zen Buddhism
• A Thought Experiment: Is taking a pill 'abstract'?

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