About Jeffrey Gluck

With careers as an engineering researcher and as an intellectual property attorney, Dr. Jeffrey W. Gluck is able to bring both to the table when serving clients. His legal practice spans a broad range of areas, including patent application and prosecution, IP counseling, providing legal opinions, serving on litigation teams, and appellate litigation. He is a frequent author and speaker on matters relating to patent law and software IP law. His engineering experience includes roles in industry, academia, and government, and he has authored numerous technical papers. While his technical background lies in the electrical and computer areas, Jeff has successfully pursued work relating to a much broader range of topics, from vehicle steering and braking systems to shoes to gaming to business and finance.

Dr. Jeffrey W. Gluck is a firm partner representing clients in a variety of areas including patent counseling and opinions, licensing and transactions, interferences, patent prosecution and reissue, and reexaminations. He also assists on trial litigation and has been a lead attorney in appellate litigation. His litigation-related activities include matters before both U.S. District Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He further advises clients on matters relating to software copyright/licensing issues, including open-source licenses. He is a frequent author and speaker on matters relating to patent law and electrical and computer intellectual property.

Jeff specializes in sophisticated electrical and computer-related technologies, including telecommunication systems, signal processing, control systems, solar energy technology, semiconductor devices, and high-performance computing, but his practice includes other technologies, as well, including vehicle steering and braking systems and other mechanical systems, gaming systems, and financial technology.

Jeff brings a wealth of broad-based experience to his clients, having worked as an engineer and researcher (including management), as a university professor, and as a patent examiner, in addition to his experience as a patent agent and patent attorney. While his research interests focused mainly on multi-user, digital, wireless and satellite communications, he has also performed research in the areas of signal processing and control systems. A large part of his research centered on spread-spectrum/CDMA systems, including applications to cellular systems. He has authored or co-authored a number of technical papers.

In connection with his work, Jeff is familiar with numerous telecommunications standards including IS-95, GSM, cdma2000, and 3GPP, including LTE, LTE-Advanced, and 5G. He has also performed work related to digital video broadcasting (DVB) standards, and AV1 and VP9 video processing standards. His work includes counseling patent pools regarding standards-related matters.