Craige Thompson is a licensed electrical engineer (PE) and USPTO-registered patent attorney. He reads your schematics and firmware directly, then drafts electronics claims that capture what is actually new.
Electronics inventions often involve hardware and firmware working together. We protect:
When an electronic product also has a distinctive housing or embedded software, we look at whether design or software claims should sit alongside the electrical claims to protect the whole product.
Most electronics inventions draw on one or more of the patent types we prepare:
Most patent attorneys who handle electronics are trained as lawyers first and learn the engineering secondhand. Craige Thompson is a licensed PE with an electrical engineering degree, so he can evaluate circuit topologies and signal flow himself and draft claims that hold up to scrutiny from examiners, licensees and competitors.
Tell us about your invention in a Complimentary Patent Needs Assessment. We’ll tell you honestly whether it’s patentable, what it would take to protect it, and what it would cost.
Get a Complimentary Patent Needs AssessmentYes, if the circuit solves a technical problem in a specific, non-obvious way, such as a new topology or a more efficient way of measuring or converting a signal.
No. You need to describe the invention in enough detail, usually with schematics, block diagrams and a description of how it operates, that someone skilled in the field could build it.
Firmware that produces a specific technical improvement, such as better device performance, lower power use or more accurate sensing, can often be claimed together with the hardware it runs on.
Often both. Hardware claims protect the physical design, and method or software claims protect what the device does. Together they make it harder to design around.
Typically 18 months to 3+ years from filing. Track One prioritized examination can shorten this substantially for an added fee.
