Randall S. Svihla, associate, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Technical Translator's Certificate in Russian from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1978, and a Juris Doctor degree from George Mason University School of Law in 1992. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the bars of the Supreme Court of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is a registered professional engineer in Indiana.
Mr. Svihla entered private practice in 1990 with another Washington, DC-area intellectual property law firm, where he worked first as a law clerk and later as an associate on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. patent applications in high-technology electrical arts, and on infringement opinions, evaluations of patents, reports on patent holdings, and legal memoranda on questions of patent law.
Mr. Svihla has worked on U.S. patent applications in many areas of technology, including computer-related systems; magnetic, optical, video, and digital recording and reproducing; digital watermarking and copy protection; video and television systems; liquid crystal, CRT, and other displays; plasma processing; optical and electron-beam lithography; radio and network communications; MRI, CAT, X-ray, and ultrasonic imaging; acoustic measuring and testing; ion, electrophoresis, and other analyzers; copying and printing systems; motor and other control systems; and power conversion and power control systems.
From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Svihla was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined U.S. patent applications in the color television and facsimile arts.
From 1978 to 1984, Mr. Svihla was a staff engineer at the Western Division Headquarters of Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc. (now Cinergy/PSI, Cinergy Corp.), an electric utility, where he designed distribution, transmission, and substation projects, monitored construction projects, acted as a liaison between the company and contractors, wrote planning studies, prepared long-term construction budgets, and evaluated proposed construction projects for economic and operating justification.
Mr. Svihla has done pro bono work for Legal Services of Northern Virginia in the fields of consumer and family law.
Mr. Svihla is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
