Mr. Ghabrial is a registered patent attorney with a background in biomedical engineering with an aggregate experience in engineering and intellectual property of more than fifteen years. He concentrates his practice on post-grant proceedings, patent procurement, and strategic portfolio management. He counsels clients on many facets of intellectual property including patentability, freedom to operate, patent validity, continuation strategies, and licensing practices.
As a PTO-registered lawyer, Mr. Ghabrial has experience handling matters in before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as well as standard patent prosecution matters. Mr. Ghabrial has significant experience with post-grant proceedings including preparation of a number of inter partes review petitions targeting patents in various technical areas that were successfully adjudicated. Mr Ghabrial also has significant experience in negotiating IP clauses in various types of agreements.
Mr. Ghabrial’s experience spans a wide array of technologies, including medical instruments, telecommunications, trains, software applications, robotics, surgical ultrasonic devices, surgical Radio Frequency (RF) devices, stapling devices, vascular stents, wound closure, stem cells, absorbable polymers, transplantable scaffolds, metal refining, nanotechnology, high performance liquid chromatography, drilling equipment, and construction laminates.
Prior to his career as a lawyer, Mr. Ghabrial worked as an engineer and as a manager of intellectual property at a fortune five-hundred company. He is a named inventor on many patent applications and issued patents in the United States.
