John V. Biernacki
Partner
Cleveland
Tel: 1.216.586.7747
Fax: 1.216.579.0212
Email:
jvbiernacki@jonesday.com
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John Biernacki practices patent, copyright, and trademark law, with a specialization in computer software and Internet patent prosecution and freedom-to-practice opinions. This practice includes creating and maintaining clients' patent portfolios and analyzing competitors' patent portfolios. John provides prelitigation intellectual property counseling to clients in order to maximize the value of clients' patent portfolios and to avoid the valid rights of others.
During college, John worked in the polymer laboratories for the Finishes and Fabricated Products Division of DuPont and was awarded Engineering Co-Op Student of the Year. At the polymer laboratories, John worked on computer statistical designs of experiments for polymer coatings, polymer reaction computer modeling, and color matching algorithms for polymer coatings.
Upon graduation, he worked as a software engineer for DuPont at a U.S. Department of Energy facility that produced plutonium and tritium for national defense purposes. His work focused on relational database management systems and statistical modeling to analyze nuclear material accountability and safeguard issues. He then worked at the NASA Lewis Research Center as a software and systems engineer contractor on the NASA Space Station program, Mars Nuclear Rocket program, and Space Shuttle maintenance program. John has published several technical papers and was presented with a NASA certificate of appreciation award in 1992. While working at NASA, John attended John Carroll University and earned a master's degree in ancient Greek and Latin.
Since 1994, John's work has focused on software patent prosecution. Examples of the technical areas of his patent prosecution include:
• artificial neural networks
• fuzzy logic
• computer operating systems
• computer thread management
• computer agents
• relational database systems
• data mining applications
• object-oriented applications (Java, C++)
• business methods
• speech recognition and synthesis
• vehicle finite element analysis modeling
• vehicle engine control algorithms
• virtual reality rendering/warping algorithms
• satellite control algorithms
• cruise missile guidance systems
• stock trading computer systems
• computer microprocessor electronics
• wireless communication devices and
• CNC process algorithms.
In addition to software patent prosecution, he has litigated patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters. On behalf of a major automotive company, John established and operated a program for protecting the company's trademarks on the Internet. John also helped authors of the following intellectual property law treatises in their research and issue analysis: Software Patents, Business Method Patents, and Intellectual Property Litigation — Pretrial Practice.
Admitted
Michigan, Ohio, and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Education
University of Detroit (Tau Beta Pi; B.Ch.E. 1987); John Carroll University (M.A. 1994); University of Detroit Mercy (J.D. 1995)