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Brian Dinicola

Brian Dinicola


Copyrights / Trademarks and Intellectual Property Lawyer
Dinicola & Young PC
Princeton, NJ, NJ
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Attorney Biography

Brian K. Dinicola is an experienced patent and business attorney based in Princeton, New Jersey, and is a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

He helps entrepreneurs protect their inventions, brand names, works of authorship and trade secrets for maximum competitive advantage. Some of these clients come to him with nothing more than an idea for a new product or process (or for an improvement to an old one).

He also works with his clients to solve some of their most challenging intellectual property problems. Such problems can arise when a company:

chooses a corporate identity without first checking to see if another company is using the same name; loses or discharges an employee who goes on to start a competing business; wants to sell develop or launch a new product in a "crowded" field; receives a "cease and desist" letter threatening action for trademark infringement; and is offered a patent license by a company threatening to sue.

Representative Projects

Drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications involving passive and active photonic devices, optical and wireless communication systems, semiconductor devices and fabrication techniques, communications hardware and software, business methods, and electromechanical systems. Established procedures for handling trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, reviewing invention submissions as candidates for patent protection for several Fortune 500 clients. Led effort to design around a patent portfolio relating to the use of erbium doped fiber amplifiers in optical communications network for a client. Developed and rolled out procurement and customer contract templates, and gave training to inhouse contract managers (front line negotiators with vendors and customers). For one Fortune 100 company, served as "process owner" for all requests by staff software developers to use open source software – reviewing proposed use for compliance with company prohibition against using modules and libraries having "viral" or "copyleft" effect on proprietary code.

Bar Admisssions

Maryland (1992) New Jersey (1994) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Reg. No. 36,122 (1992)

Court Admissions

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit United States District Court of New Jersey

Education

J.D., University of Maryland School of Law (1992) B.S. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1996) B.S. Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1985)

Community Involvement

Chairman, Monroe Township Board of Fire Commissioners, District No. 1 (1998-2007) Member, Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Company, District No. 1 Volunteer Attorney, Legal Services of New Jersey

Background

Mr. Dinicola began his career in the intellectual property field as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1990.

Before founding the Firm, he was Associate General Counsel for the GfK Group, a global market research company.

GfK’s activities cover the three business sectors of Audience Measurement and Analytics (radio, television, internet and mobile), Custom Research, and Retail and Technology. The GfK Group has a network of 115 companies operating in more than 100 countries.

Previously, Mr. Dinicola had been a Division IP Counsel for NJ-based Avaya Inc, Deputy Chief Patent Counsel for the Tyco Undersea Communications division of Tyco International, a corporate counsel for AT&T Bell Laboratories (and AT&T spin-off, Lucent Technologies), and an associate patent attorney in the Washington, D.C. offices of Pennie & Edmonds.


Practice Areas

 
Copyrights / Trademarks (50%)
 
Intellectual Property Law (25%)
 
Patents (25%)

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Bar Licenses

New Jersey State Bar
New Jersey
Member in Good Standing
1994

Maryland State Bar
Maryland
Inactive Member
1992

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Work Experience

Dinicola & Young PC
Partner at Dinicola & Young, PC
2013Present

Chief IP Counsel at GfK Holding Inc
20092013

Associate at Pennie & Edmonds
20022004

Division Intellectual Property Counsel at Avaya, Inc.
20012009

Deputy Chief IP Counsel - Tycom Division at Tyco International
19982001

Corporate Counsel at Lucent Technologies/AT&T Bell Labs
19951998

Patent Examiner at U. S. Patent & Trademark Office
19901992

Product Line Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation
19851989

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Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology
BS
1996

University of Maryland School of Law
JD
1992

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Brian Dinicola
Dinicola & Young PC
475 Wall St
Princeton, NJ, NJ 08540
youngipt.com
Office: 609-735-4579
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