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ANDREW P. CERNOTA, ESQ.
Vern Maine & Associates- Attorneys at Law
100 Main Street - Suite 2, PO Box 3445, Nashua NH 03061
tel 603-886-6100, fax 603-886-4796,
email ACernota@VernMaine.com,
website http://www.VernMaine.com
RESUME IN BRIEF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY
- Admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court of the State of New Hampshire, the U.S. District
Court for the District of New Hampshire, United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Admitted to practice May 19, 2003. Associated with the firm since 2001.
FORMAL EDUCATION
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH: Juris Doctor and Master of Intellectual
Property, 2002
Dartmouth College: AB Chemistry, 1999: course work focusing in Physical
and Inorganic Chemistry
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vern Maine & Associates, Nashua, NH 5/2003- present
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY, Counsel clients on intellectual property
law; conduct prior art screening searches; draft provisional, utility,
design and Patent Cooperation Treaty patent applications for a wide variety of
chemical,
electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical inventions in such
fields as semiconductor processing and fabrication, medical arts, and textiles;
respond
to Patent and
Trademark Office actions; prepare trademark applications for the
principal and supplemental registers; prepare copyright applications; Interface
with clients
and assist with firm administration.
Maine & Asmus,
Nashua, NH 5/2001- 5/2003
- LAW CLERK, Assist
attorneys with projects such as: conducting patent and trademark searches;
drafting patentability and
infringement opinions; drafting provisional, utility, design and Patent Cooperation
Treaty
patent applications
for chemical, electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical
inventions; drafting trademark applications for the principal and supplemental
registers;
investigating
internet law issues and domain name disputes; preparing
copyright applications, drafting
responses to Patent and Trademark Office actions.
Amro Environmental Laboratories - Merrimack, NH 8/97
- 8/99
- ORGANIC LABORATORY
TECHNICIAN, Responsible for the extraction and preparation of samples
undergoing GC/MS analysis for organic pollutants such
as polar organic compounds, PCBs, and Pesticides. Responsible
for maintaining chain of custody
logs and quality control logs on both prepared
samples and standard samples.
OTHER
- Member, Nashua Cable Television Advisory Board 2004-present
- Justice of the Peace- State of New Hampshire 2002-present
- Intellectual Property Law Section – NH Bar Association
2001-present
- Member Licensing Executives Society (LES) 2001-2002
- LSCAS Board of Directors 2000-2002
- American Bar Association 1999-present
- American Chemical Society 1999-present
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association 1999-present
- Foreign Language- Spanish
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