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• Patents and Publications
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• resume
• case history of a patent reexamination prosecution
• Summary of US Patent Drawing Requirements
• www.scn.org/~bk269/stan/mp3.html
  A view on file sharing

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I am a patent attorney specializing in electronics, computer applications, semiconductor processes, digital and analog circuitry, radio frequency circuits and mechanical cases. Somehow that got me into Who's Who in America and in American Law.

As an engineer I worked on transport aircraft and cargo aircraft conversion.

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Computers, Electronics and Software

In my professional life, my practice involves all phases of high technology intellectual property law. This includes patent preparation and prosecution, licensing and general patent law.

Prior to that I was Patent Counsel to Micron Technology, Inc. in Boise. There I was responsible for creation of the patent department and development of an intellectual property program for the company, which has successfully issued 500 patents from its inception in 1988 until I reentered private practice in 1994. The most fun was in the first year, when I was forming the department from scratch.

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Transport Aircraft and Aerospace Electronics

Before joining Micron, I was with Allied-Signal Aerospace (Bendix), handling mostly their military avionics divisions.

As an engineer, I worked on transport aircraft and cargo aircraft conversion. My proposal for the Sea Scan project virtually eliminated seaborne terrorist attacks. (The original proposal was focused on antisubmarine warfare, but the developed application proved more valuable for rapid surface scanning. I don't know if Sea Scan is being used for its original purpose of underwater detection.)

More recently, I wanted more familiarity with small aircraft maintenance, so I took a part time job working on small aircraft, most of which were flown in backcountry service in Idaho.

I started my law career practicing in Alexandria, Virginia, where I was responsible for a boutique patent firm's electronics docket. Work in private practice gained inventor Gordon Cann "Distinguished Inventor of the Year" award for a more efficient satellite thruster motor.

Stan Protigal - The Early Years

I hold a JD from The Vermont Law School and earned my engineering degree from Northrop University (now part of Caltech) in L.A. I grew up in Delaware

I am a member of the IEEE. When I am not flying, I enjoy bicycling and skiing.

That's me checking the aileron.

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Stan Protigal's Inventions and Publications Include:

U.S. 5,307,309 - Memory Module Having On-Chip Surge Capacitors View Patent

This relates to the manufacture of SIMM boards in which the manufacturing step of adding discrete decoupling capacitors can be eliminated by the use of on-chip decoupling capacitors on the memory chips. In addition to increased reliability, elimination of the discrete capacitors eliminates at least two steps from the assembly process. I believe all currently produced memory modules incorporate this on-chip decoupling. Micron believes this too, and has enforced this patent.

U.S. Patent 5,321,285 - Carrier Injection DRAM Having Stacked Depletion Region in Mesa View Patent

This is a memory device which uses an effect of the fabrication process to create a storage region. While the concept has been demonstrated, it has not seen production.

U.S. 5,687,109 - Integrated Circuit Module having On-Chip Surge Capacitors View Patent

This is a more specific version of the '309 patent. It seems that Micron felt that it was worth four years of prosecution in addition to the time that I put into this one.

U.S. 6,184,568 - Integrated Circuit Module having On-Chip Surge Capacitors View Patent

This issued in 2001, and has an extensive list of cited prior art.

Search patents written by Stan Protigal.

Corbett, Protigal and Wood, "Substrate Interconnect for KGD Plus(tm) Processes and Methodology", IEEE 1993 Integrated Reliability Workshop, Oct., 1993

Mattson and Protigal, "High Tech Construction -- From the Inside", Plant Engineering, c.1991

Webpages:

www.scn.org/civic/traffic/

Seattle Community Network's traffic website - shows traffic map along with "live cam" shots along selected commutes. See also www.scn.org/civic/traffic/bigtown.html for shots of downtown Seattle.

www.scn.org/help/modem.html

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Modems - describes modem settings for Seattle Community Network.

www.scn.org/help/modemsp.html

(Modem Init. Strings) - Max Speed, also for Seattle Community Network. - advantages in deliberately downgrade a modem

(Modem Init. Strings) - Max Speed

explains optimum modem speed

SCN's Dialup Connect Speeds

Windows Setup (W95/98)

www.scn.org/~bk269/dudes_f.html

"Dude's" Airplane Files

www.scn.org/~bk269/usppl.html

Obtaining an FAA or CAA License in the U.S.A.

www.scn.org/~bk269/wompats.html

Searches for patents written by me.

www.scn.org/marketplace/wcag/

Washington Contract Attorneys' Group website

Lawyers Against Shark Repellant (under construction)

The lawyer counterpart to Médecins Sans Frontières (http://msf.org/)