Bryan Rodriguez is a patent agent in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group and Patent Prosecution Group. He focuses on providing legal and technical analysis support for patent litigation, patent licensing, inter partes reviews (IPRs), due diligence, freedom to operate (FTO), invalidity contentions, infringement reads, and standard essential patents (SEPs).
Bryan’s practice also includes patent preparation and patent prosecution, having drafted over five hundred patent applications and prosecuted over two hundred patent applications to allowance. Bryan’s technical experience includes telecommunications, computer vision, robotics, semiconductor circuits and devices, artificial intelligence, blockchains, software applications, fintech, 3D printing, automotive systems, and mechanical devices.
Bryan earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.S. in mathematics from Southern Methodist University. His graduate research studies included computer vision, 3D sensing technologies, robotics, machine learning, and semiconductor circuits and devices. While earning his degree, he served as president of the Electrical Engineering Honor Society (Eta Kappa Nu), president of IEEE@SMU, and vice president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
Bryan’s previous work experience includes teaching electrical engineering labs and working in the rapid prototype lab at SMU, working as a microprocessor engineer for an electric vehicle start-up company, and working in the radio frequency (RF) design and planning group for a major telecommunications company.