Mr. Iyer’s practice includes patent litigation and prosecution in complex technical areas in the electrical and computer arts. His representative cases include multi-patent litigation in the field of semiconductor memories and AI software. Mr. Subramanian has also been in involved in patent infringement cases pertaining to electrical motor control systems and chemical software.
Mr. Iyer has prepared and prosecuted over fifty applications for a leading computers and communications research laboratory. In addition, he prepared and prosecuted a substantial number of applications in the areas of computer network hardware and software; VLSI design, testing and performance; software and algorithms for various applications; semiconductor processing; and bioinformatics. Mr. Iyer also engages in general client counseling including validity and infringement opinions in the above areas.
Bars
District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1997)
University of Tennessee (M.S. Computer Science, 1988)
University of Akron (M.S.Ch.E 1986)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India (B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, 1984)
Prior Experience
Explore Reasoning Systems, Inc., Senior Technical Staff (1996-97) - participated as a senior team member for a large Object-Oriented Distributed Artificial Intelligence based software for policy automation C++, CORBA and SOAR; developed technical documentation for above projects
Ensys, Inc., Technical Director (1991-93, 95-96) - developed expert system in Visual C++, Prolog and MapObjects for a meteorology application; developed a front end GUI for MODFLOW, a groundwater model used by USGS; developed a preprocessor and GUI for HPDM, an air dispersion model used by the power industry
Automation Research Systems, Inc., Senior Engineer (1993-95) - developed a risk assessment and technology selection system in C/UNIX and in Windows unexploded ordinance clearance; assisted in business process reengineering and introduction of client server technology at a DOD facility
Roy F. Weston, Inc., Principal Project Manager (1988-91) - worked on risk assessment and hazard ranking models; implemented an object oriented knowledge base system in UNIX (Solaris) and LISP to synthesize chemical processes; developed and implemented a computer assisted hazard ranking system in Prolog
Space Institute, Research Assistant (1986-88) - developed an intelligent system in C and LISP for MHD pilot plant data reduction; developed an expert system front end in C and LISP for ASPEN+, a process simulator
University of Akron, Research Assistant (1984-86) - developed an expert system for process control applications in OPS5 and C
Associations
Sigma Xi
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, computer science honor society
Publications and Teaching
Joinder Limitations in the America Invents Act: Big Change?
Small Science, Big Risk - Lessons from the past for protecting Nanotechnology
"Technology transfer: What India can learn from the US", JIPR, September 2005
“Small Science, Big Risk”, The Patent Lawyer (2004)
"Acquisition of Expert Knowledge about Biological Treatment for CARTS," Proceedings of EXPERSYS_91, France (Oct 1991)
"CARTS: A consistent methodology for Generating Treatment Trains, Proceedings of the National Research & Development Conference on the Control of Hazardous Materials (Feb 1991)
"Detecting Abnormal Situations from Real Time Power Plant Data Using Machine Learning," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Expert Systems (July 1988)