Richard focuses his expertise in patent law on the preparation and prosecution of electrical, electronic, audio, computer, software, communications and mechanical patent applications.

Before joining Hovey Williams, Richard worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs in New Jersey, and as a test and development engineer for Xanoptix, Inc., a startup company in Merrimack, NH, that manufactured optical transceiver cores. His interest in patent law grew from his experience at Bell Labs, and has since moved from the inventive side to the practitioner side of the patent process.

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
      Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1998

University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
      M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1996

University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
      B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1992

MEMBERSHIP

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers