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As a member of the toxic tort and environmental litigation practice, Fred shares his hard science educational background and laboratory work experience with other litigators in the practice to help them obtain a foundational understanding of a particular toxic or hazardous compound at issue in a particular case.

When not consulting with the practitioners in the toxic tort and environmental litigation practice, Fred is an intellectual property and technology attorney who concentrates his practice on intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience prosecuting patents and trademarks at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and registering copyrights with the United States Copyright Office. Fred works closely with inventors to prepare patent applications and to prepare responses to Office Actions in the fields of nanotechnology, medical devices, fuel cells, alternative and renewable energy, mechanical devices, particle and gas filters, chemistry, entropic activity detection and monitoring systems and computer software systems, among others. He has also worked closely with inventors in reexamination proceedings at the USPTO.

Prior to attending law school, Fred worked at a research company in Boulder, Colorado, where he conducted research on the heterogeneous catalysis of a wide variety of environmental and industrial processes including exhaust gas purification. He also previously conducted chemical research on new consumer products.

  • Listed in:
    • New York Super Lawyers® Intellectual Property, 2022
      • Upstate New York Rising Star,  Intellectual Property, 2014
  • Justinian Honorary Law Society
  • Order of the Coif
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Onondaga County Bar Association
  • American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Executive Editor, Syracuse Law Review
     

  • What Every Capital Region Business Needs to Know about Cybersecurity and GDPR, Albany Business Review Smart Series, April 16, 2019

  • Board Member, Technology Alliance of Central New York
  • Former Board Member, CNY Jazz Arts Foundation