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Safet Metjahic
Partner 
2001 K Street N.W.
smetjahic@mcguirewoods.comSuite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006-1040 F: 212.548.2150
1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1800 Tysons Corner, Virginia 22102-4215 F: 703.712.5050    |
Mr. Metjahic is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He focuses on complex patent litigation, post-grant exparte and inter-parte Patent Office proceedings, patent procurement and portfolio management, including preparation and prosecution, technology transfer, and client counseling. He has experience in a wide range of technologies, including electronics, electrical, software, telecommunications, business method, medical and mechanical arts. He represents a wide range of clients, spanning from small start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations.
Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Metjahic accrued more than 16 years of experience at the PTO, where he examined patent applications, reissue applications and reexamination applications related to television and facsimile technologies. He also trained and supervised patent examiners in the examination of patent applications, reissue applications and reexamination applications in a variety of technologies, including television, facsimile, telecommunication, radio communication, photography, lithography, projection systems, measuring and testing (including medical device testing and bio-imaging), and database and file management systems.
He has more than 15 years of experience in reexamination practice. Mr. Metjahic has trained and led teams in the handling and examination of high-profile reexamination applications. He has also served as an expert in reexamination practice where he oversaw and supervised the handling and examination of all reexamination applications in a work group of more than 100 examiners.
Mr. Metjahic served on a detail at the PTO's Office of Budget and Planning, where he worked on the strategic plan for the PTO. He also led a number of PTO committees, including one that studied and evaluated every function performed by employees of the office for a report to the Office of Management and Budget. He served as a law clerk at the U.S. International Trade Commission, Office of Unfair Import Investigation in 2003. Mr. Metjahic received a Bronze Medal Award for Superior Federal Service in 2004.
- Representative Prosecution/Counseling Technologies
- Advanced Intelligent Networks
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks
- Automotive Components
- Business Methods
- Displays
- Cellular Antenna Structure & Control
- Camera Lenses
- Charge-coupled Devices (CCD)
- Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Devices
- Database & File Management Systems
- Data Processing
- Digital Cameras
- Digital Video
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
- Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) Devices
- Electronic Game Systems
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Input Devices including Keyboards & Touch-screen Displays
- Measuring & Testing
- Medical Devices
- Medical Imaging Devices
- Multiplexing Systems
- Networking
- Optics
- Product Manufacturing
- Satellite Communication & Control
- Semiconductor Structure & Fabrication
- Software
- Speech Coding
- Telecommunications
- Video Games
- Video Signal formatting/Processing Systems
- Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
- Wireless Devices
- Representative Litigation Matters
- Trudell Medical International v. PARI Respiratory Equipment, Inc., et al., (Nebulizer Devices)
- WIAV Solutions LLC v. PALM, Inc., et al. (Cellular Telephone Devices)
- Illinois Tool Works Inc. d/b/a CFC International Corp. v. Waytek Corp. (Laminate Products and Processes therefor)
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. v. EP MedSystems, Inc. (Ultrasound Catheters)
- Disa Industries A/S v. Thyssenkrupp Waupaca, Inc. (Sand Molding Machines)
- Enpat, Inc. v. Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., (Active Front End Controller for AC-DC Conversion)
- Freedom to Operate, Validity, Infringement and Enforceability Studies and Opinions in: Aircraft Systems; Automotive Components; Building Components; Business Methods; Camera Systems; Computer Displays; Computer Input/Output Systems; Gaming Systems; Medical Systems; Microprocessor Technology; Television Systems; Waste Management Systems
- Bronze Medal, Superior Federal Service
- "Delaying Generic Drugs: The Legal Landscape Surrounding Reverse Payment Agreements to Protect Patent Holders," NYIPLA Bulletin, February/March 2010
- "Understanding Intellectual Property Rights," Chinatown Manpower Project Entrepreneurial Assistance Program, October 24, 2009, November 6, 2010
- "Patents and Business Strategies: A Patent Attorney's Perspective," 4th Annual TCF IT Professional Conference, Trenton, New Jersey, April 24, 2009
- "Patents and Business Strategies," USPTO Tech Fair, 2007
- American Intellectual Property Association
- Licensing Executives Society, Scandinavia
- Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
- International Association of Engineers
- Serbo-Croatian
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EDUCATION American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., J.D., May 2004 Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Business, Washington D.C., Graduate Certificate in Public Management, June 2000 The City College of New York, New York, B.E. Electrical Engineering, May 1989 ADMITTED Washington, DC 2006 U.S. Patent & Trademark Office 2006 New York 2005 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Not Admitted in Virginia PLACE OF BIRTH Montenegro |