- Admitted
- Ohio, 2023
- USPTO
- Reg. No. 78,125 (Attorney), registered 2019
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Nicolas A. Smith
Patent Attorney, Member
- Education
- J.D., University of Akron School of Law
- M.S. and B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, The Ohio State University, 2017
- Technical focus
- Electrical and computer engineering; digital signal processing, RF and antenna systems
Nicolas A. (Nic) Smith is a patent attorney, admitted to practice in Ohio and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Nic was admitted in Ohio in 2023 after graduating in the top 2% of his class at the University of Akron School of Law. He first joined Eschweiler & Potashnik in 2018 and has been registered with the USPTO since 2019.
Nic’s technical background is in electrical and computer engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2017, graduating summa cum laude, and was on the Dean’s List for eight consecutive semesters.
His master’s work at Ohio State focused on digital signal processing and radio frequency (RF) technologies. While at Ohio State and before joining the firm, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories as an engineer in 2015 and 2016, designing and characterizing antennas and designing and setting up signal processing and RF systems. From 2013 until his graduation, he was also a research assistant in Ohio State’s ElectroScience Laboratory, where he developed RF and antenna systems.