Carlos Villamar

Carlos Villamar

attorney

Mr. Villamar is a patent attorney with broad experience assisting clients with foreign and domestic patent application preparation and prosecution, opinion work, litigation, and IP counseling.

To thoroughly serve clients, Mr. Villamar enjoys elucidating complex concepts in U.S. patent law in an easily-understood way. Seeing his role as part advocate and part guide, he ensures that clients can make well-informed decisions on the intellectual property challenges that their businesses encounter.

Mr. Villamar’s expertise covers a wide variety of technologies, including wired, wireless, optical, terrestrial broadcast and satellite communications, neural networks, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, encryption, digital signal processing, speech recognition, sound and image processing, medical imaging, video games, physics engines, 3D graphics, virtual worlds, Digital Rights Management, e-commerce, cloud computing, military technologies, radar, sonar, fighter aircraft, missiles, ground guidance, heads-up displays, computer networks and security, semiconductors, device manufacturing, nanotechnology, renewable energy, automotive technologies, health equipment technologies, and electromechanical technologies.

In his career, Mr. Villamar has counseled clients as an attorney in large general practice firms, mid-sized IP boutique firms, and in a more personalized small-firm environment. Prior to working in private practice, he served as an Examiner in the Speech Signal Processing Group of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

As an electrical engineer, Mr. Villamar has over nine years of commercial experience, including production design and testing for a multinational aerospace and defense corporation. He also developed his technical expertise working in high-speed digital logic and signal processing, communications systems, and computer design for a major U.S. aerospace and defense contractor.

Education

The George Washington University Law School
J.D.

California State University, Long Beach
M.S.E.E., emphasis in Digital Signal Processing & Neural Networks

California State Polytechnic University
B.S.E.E., emphasis in Digital Signal Processing