ANDREW P. CERNOTA, ESQ.
Vern Maine & Associates- Attorneys at Law
547 Amherst Street, 3rd Floor - Nashua, NH 03063-4000
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. Became a member in 2009.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH: Juris Doctor and Master of Law in 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, MEMBER, 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

• New England Business Alliance 2007-present
      - Board of Directors 2009-present
• 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