- Admitted
- Ohio, 1997
- USPTO
- Reg. No. 36,981 (Attorney), registered 1993
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Thomas G. Eschweiler
Patent Attorney, Of Counsel
- Education
- J.D., Southern Methodist University, 1996
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, with honors, Michigan State University, 1990
- Technical focus
- Linear and mixed-signal technologies
Thomas G. Eschweiler is a patent attorney. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Michigan State University in 1990, where he was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He received his Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University in 1996, where he was a member of the SMU Law Review, serving as a managing editor, and received the Richards, Medlock & Andrews Patent Law Award.
Tom was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1997 and has been registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since 1993. Before entering private practice, he worked at Texas Instruments Inc., first as an engineer in linear and mixed-signal technologies and then in the Patent Acquisition and Enforcement Activity of the Texas Instruments Legal Department.
Tom is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Association. He wrote the article “Ford v. Lemelson and Continuing Application Laches,” 79 J. Pat. & Trademark Office Soc’y 401 (1997). The Federal Circuit later relied on the article’s analysis in establishing the doctrine of prosecution laches in Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson, 277 F.3d 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
Tom has also been appointed a Special Master for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for claim construction and other intellectual property issues.