Fritz M. Fliegel

Dr. Fliegel practices primarily in the areas of preparation and prosecution of patent applications. The technical subject matter of Dr. Fliegel’s intellectual property law expertise spans a broad range of subject matter in the areas of electrical engineering, including CDMA, microwave and radio communications, RF and optical metrology, hand-held-, satellite- and terrestrially-based communications systems, cryptological techniques and applications, RFID systems and devices, computer systems, memory devices and architectures, image-enhancement and processing technologies including digital camera applications and medical imaging approaches and systems, biometric and other database systems, transistors, integrated circuit devices and manufacturing techniques, surface acoustic wave and other compact, robust microfabricated frequency-selection components, coherent optics, plasma physics and techniques, digital circuit elements and system technologies, vacuum physics, vascular implants, economic modeling tools, electromechanical devices, such as disc drive motor controllers, mechanical devices and numerous other applications of applied engineering and technology.

Legal Background

Dr. Fliegel received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He has engaged in legal practice in the context of multinational corporations and in private practice, representing a variety of concerns ranging from individual inventors, high-technology startup corporations and long-established large corporations, for parties in a variety of countries.

He is admitted to practice law in the Washington state and Arizona, and he is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Registration Number 36,138).

Technical Background

Dr. Fliegel graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, 1982 and 1987, respectively earning baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees involving multidisciplinary studies focusing on basic physics of semiconductor and optoelectronic devices, manufacturing techniques, design, and device characterization and testing, using linear and nonlinear measurement and characterization studies. Portions of his work involved development of very high speed (600 MHz) GaAs CCDs employing a powerful surface acoustic wave as a charge bunching and transport mechanism. This work also involved development and characterization of a knife-edge heterodyne laser probe for quantitatively measuring and spatially assessing amplitude and phase of sub-Angstrom surface displacement fields of microwave acoustic signals at UHF frequencies in semiconductive piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials at spatial frequencies ranging from tens of microns down to several microns.

He is an inventor on eleven issued US patents and has authored and refereed numerous technical publications with respect to journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings and the Journal of Applied Physics. He has performed basic research as an individual contributor, and as an engineering/project manager, in contexts including academia, government contracting facilities, and start-up businesses.