Cary W. Brooks
Mr. Brooks has extensive experience in both the prosecution and litigation of intellectual property matters. Before joining the firm, he worked for sixteen years as a patent attorney for the General Motors Corporation where his responsibilities included patent preparation and prosecution, infringement opinions, licensing, acquisitions and divestitures, and major litigation.
Mr. Brooks' expertise includes fuel cell systems including reformation and purification equipment, semiconductor devices and processes of making the same including packaging and handling clips, printed circuit boards, tape automated bonding and flexible circuitry, thick film circuits and compositions, wire bonding, etching, film deposition and ion implantation techniques, "gold dot" micro connections, ceramics, electrical connector and electrical distribution centers, electrorheological fluids, cubic boron nitride and indium arsenide films, jet engine turbine blade and component manufacture, automotive exhaust systems including converters and oxygen sensors, and machines and mechanical devices.
Mr. Brooks' professional experience also includes the position of patent counsel at the BASF Corporation's Coating and Inks Division and their Chemical Division, an associate position at Barnes, Kisselle, Raisch, Choate, Whittemore & Hulbert, and a Chemical Engineer position for the Wayne County Public Works and Air Pollution Control.
Mr. Brooks has authored many articles and presentations including the following:
"Alarming Number of Ways to Create Prosecution History Estoppel and Prosecution Disclaimer", Patent Law Day, Michigan State University 2004
"Overview of Non-Infringement Opinions", Michigan State Bar Journal, August, 2004
"Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law - 1997", State Bar of Michigan/ICLE
"Preparing Patent Opinions", Presented at the Michigan State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section Annual Seminar, 1994
"More on Equivalents", 76 JPTOS 620-621, August 1994
"Equitable Triggers for Invoking the Doctrine of Equivalents" 76 JPTOS 220-228, March 1994
"Product-by-Process Claims in Light of Recent Court Decisions", Presented at the Michigan State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section Spring Seminar, 1993
"Comment: In re Dillon en Banc", 32 IDEA No. 3, 229-308, 1992
"Comment: Rehearing of In re Dillon in Banc", 72 JPTOS 1044, 1990
Mr. Brooks has been an Instructor in the "Drafting and Prosecuting Winning Patents Workshop", Patent Resources Group, Inc., 2001-2004
Mr. Brooks received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Michigan State University, where he played varsity hockey, and a Juris Doctor degree from the Michigan State University College of Law.
Mr. Brooks is a member of the Michigan State Bar association. He is licensed to practice in all federal courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also serves as an Elder at the Immanuel Lutheran Church.
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