Gene Quinn | White & Quinn - US Patent Attorneys

Gene Quinn

Gene Quinn
Patent Attorney
Phone: 703-740-9835 ext. 2

Education:

B.S.E.E. Rutgers University College of Engineering
J.D. Franklin Pierce Law Center
LL.M. Franklin Pierce Law Center

Gene is a US patent attorney, former law professor, and one of the founding members of White + Quinn Consulting. Gene is also a member of Berenato, White & Stavish, a full service intellectual property law firm, he teaches a patent bar review course for the Practising Law Institute (PLI), and is the lead contributing author for the PLI Patent Practice Center Blog. Gene’s particular patent specialty is in the area of business methods, software, computer and Internet applications, but he has worked with independent inventors and start-up businesses in a variety of different technology fields.

Gene is also known by many as “the IPWatchdog.” Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site reached well over 2 million visitors. At least in part due to the notoriety he developed through IPWatchdog.com, Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Gene is also the inventor of a unique invention mining and patent drafting system, known as the Invent + Patent System™, which enables the submission of detailed answers that form the basis of an extraordinarily detailed invention disclosure and which can be filed immediately as a provisional patent application, or subsequently reviewed, modified, edited and supplemented and then filed as a nonprovisional patent application. This system is the outgrowth of years of teaching law students how to write patent applications and has been adapted for use by individual inventors since 2004. Since its inception the system has helped over 10,000 inventors to create both nonprovisional and provisional patent applications.

Gene is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Inventors Association, which is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with the mission of coordinating individual inventors and inventor associations for the express purpose of actively addressing their issues and challenges at both the national (USA) and global level.

Between 2003 and 2007 Gene also wrote a monthly column for Patent World and served on the Patent World editorial board. He has also previously taught a variety of intellectual property courses at the law school level, including patent law, patent claim drafting, patent prosecution, copyright law, trademark law and introduction to intellectual property. Between 1998 and 2008 Gene taught at Syracuse University College of Law, Temple University School of Law, The University of Toledo College of Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center and Whittier Law School.

Prior to moving into the academic world Gene was employed at a general civil litigation firm, where he primarily engaged in representing clients involved in complex litigation matters. He was also a founding member and managing partner of Smith, Quinn & Associates, a small intellectual property boutique firm located in Concord, New Hampshire, and he also spent two years as Vice President and General Counsel of an independent record label in Orlando, Florida.

Gene is admitted to practice law in New Hampshire (USA), is a patent attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent Office (Reg. No. 44,294) and is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Gene’s primary areas of expertise are in the areas of patent and trade secret law, patent prosecution and technology transfer. Gene has worked with inventors from all over the United States, as well as with inventors located in the United Kingdom and the UAE.

A New Solution
for Innovation

Successful innovation requires genius, perspiration, and ironclad protection. To benefit from your idea, you’ve got to bring it to life in the marketplace, but first, you’ve got to quickly and effectively protect it with a U.S. patent. Historically, the road from idea to patent has been long and frustrating… Until now.

The Invent + Patent System™ is an innovative approach to creating patent applications in a cost-effective and timely manner. In essence the Invent + Patent System™ is both an invention coaching process and a mentoring process. Through the collaborative efforts of inventors and patent attorneys more useful and detailed information about every invention is given to the patent attorney, and inventors are coaxed into understanding the intricacies of patent law and patent practice, which in turn makes them far more savy inventors.

The true benefit of the Invent + Patent System™ is that the mentoring and collaboration can be accomplished with exceptionally little time and effort on the part of those involved, but as with every process the efficiencies are obtained only when the process works properly. There are any number of ways to carry out the process which will frustrate the purpose and cause the outcome to live up to expectations. But this is exactly how and why White + Quinn Consulting can help. We know what works and what doesn't, and we can install this process into your already existing operating framework.

We all know the innovation to patent process is broken. So are you going to continue to spin your wheels looking for a solution or are you willing to adopt a solution and philosophy that has proven to work? The Invent + Patent System™ is the only true innovation in the process of creating patent applications in over 200 years, and we can convince even the most harsh critics of that fact within 60 minutes or less.