Eric Sutton

Experience

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  Landmark Realty, Inc.

  Jun 2000 - May 2002

  Lead Web Page Designer & Trainer
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  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

  Feb 2003 - Aug 2005

  Student Hardware and Software Developer and Presenter

  Conceived of, developed, and presented end-user Data Bridge Python software.Developed, built, and presented Geowall 3D system at Supercomputing Conference in 2003.Negotiated use of Geowall by middle school, leading to legislation, presentation to SenatorLuechtefeld, and publication in Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, Civics in Practice (2007).

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  Champaign County Office of the State's Attorney

  Jan 2004 - Nov 2004

  Intern for Data Conversion Project
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  Champaign County State's Attorney

  Jun 2004 - Nov 2004

  Intern

  Consulted with State's Attorney's Office and negotiated with software developers regarding Jano Justice data management system that was being implemented at the Office.

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  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Jan 2005 - May 2005

  Teaching Assistant for Human Factors (AVI 358/IE 340/PSYCH 358)

  Led discussions and experiments, graded lab reports, and managed two lab sections (approximately 50 students total) for Human Factors undergraduate course under Professor Alex Kirlik. The course required students to develop a navigation interface for use in planes.

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  City of Chicago Law Department

  May 2006 - Aug 2006

  Legal Extern
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  Singleton Law Firm

  Dec 2006 - Dec 2007

  Intern

  Drafted patent applications, responses to office actions, and novelty and infringement opinions.Drafted trademark availability opinions and responses to office actions.Drafted IP audit checklist that was presented at ISBA, IP-related articles, and IP rights handout.

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  University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

  Jan 2007 - May 2008

  Researched Topics in Patent Law for Professor David L. Schwartz. Focused primarily on research that led to article, "Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases," by David L. Schwartz. 107 Mich L. Rev. 2 (Nov. 2008).

  • Research Assistant

    Feb 2007 - May 2008

  • Research Assistant

    Jan 2007 - May 2008
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  Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

  Patent Agent
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  Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2014

  Patent Attorney

  Drafting patent applications, replies to patent office actions, and appeal briefs to the board of patent appeals and interferences for top software companies such as Oracle, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, and TiVo.Drafted approximately 80 patent applications, including U.S. Patent App. Pub. Nos. 2010/0332966 for Oracle and 2011/0010371 for Yahoo!

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  Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

  May 2012 - now

  Adjunct Professor

  Teaching JD-level courses on software patents in the summer of 2012 and summer-fall intersessions of 2014-2015.

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  Oracle

  Jan 2014 - Oct 2023

  Managing Counsel, Patents

  Patent portfolio management, patent training, planning, and mining, and patent licensing and risk assessment for select product teams. Legal process automation, analytics, and quality assurance. Managed the Legal Intern program for Oracle Legal from 2017-2018, and continue to supervise and mentor legal interns to support projects relating to patent quality, process automation, and analytics.

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  Stanford Law School

  Oct 2018 - Oct 2020

  Guest Lecturer for Law, Science, and Technology LLM Colloquium

  Guest Lecturer for "AI Patent Quality: Avoiding Flaws Inherent In Human-Performed Work" as part of the Law, Science, and Technology LLM Colloquium

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  Mughal Gaudry & Franklin PC

  Nov 2023 - now

  Patent Attorney