Marc-Anthony Armand is a law clerk in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group where he is involved in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. His technical background includes semiconductor fabrications, semiconductor materials and devices, microelectronics fabrication techniques, nanotechnology, polymeric materials, solid-state sensors, memory devices fabrication, radar, satellite communications, antenna devices, neural networks, wireless communication, and computer networks.
Marc-Anthony worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Primary Examiner. He earned his J.D. from the University Of Maryland Francis King Carey School Of Law, received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University and a M.S. in Systems Engineering from the George Washington University. During law school, Marc-Anthony worked as detailee at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board where he Briefed Administrative Patent Judges, drafted opinions relating to patent appeals, researched technical legal issues raised in the appealed cases, applied court decisions in legal analysis, and reviewed prior art.
Marc-Anthony examined patent applications involving semiconductor technology (including chip packages, doping, electrostatic diffusion, etching, FinFETs, GAAs, HEMTs, implantation, interconnection structures, JFETs, magnetic devices, memory devices, MOSFETs, optoelectronics, photolithography, Schottky contacts, sensor packages, TFTs, vertical FETs), Radar, Satellite communications (GNSS), Neural networks, Machine learning, Measuring and Testing devices, Computer Network.
- J.D., University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- M.S., Systems Engineering, The George Washington University
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Stony Brook University
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- French