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Ferenc Pazmandi Baker Botts San Francisco
Dr. Ferenc Pazmandi
Patent Litigation Agent

Overview

Ferenc Pazmandi holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a patent agent admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He provides technical analysis for intellectual property litigation, licensing, due diligence, and patent opinions. He also has significant experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications, patent reexamination and inter partes requests.

Ferenc is experienced in a broad range of technologies, including digital televisions and the governing standards, wireless communication and related standards, computer software and hardware, storage and display devices, fabrication and testing of semiconductor devices, nanotechnology, signal processing, mass spectrometry, metering networks, and biological microarrays. He has published scientific papers about disordered magnetic and quantum systems, superconductivity, optimization, neural networks, and biological problems, such as mad cow disease.

Prior to joining Baker Botts, Ferenc worked as a Patent Agent at an international firm and a Technology Specialist at a national IP firm. Before his legal career, Ferenc worked as an Assistant Professor in theoretical physics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Davis.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, Eötvös Loránd University 1991
  • M.S., Physics, Eötvös Loránd University 1988
  • B.S., Physics, Eötvös Loránd University 1988

Experience

  • Dr. Pazmandi has appeared in over fifteen contested matters before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He supports clients in patent litigation working with the firm’s IP trial attorneys.