Brian Hoffman's practice concentrates on the strategic development of patent portfolios. He identifies clients' technical advantages and implements programs that capture these advantages as patents. Mr. Hoffman counsels on ways to minimize the impact of competitors' patents. He also formulates core technical arguments in patent and trade secret litigations.
Mr. Hoffman's areas of expertise include software, Internet technologies and computer architectures. He has significant experience with computer security, electronic commerce, encryption and digital rights management, computer graphics and animation, electronic content delivery, and mobile asset tracking.
Sample Patents:
- Reducing False Positive Indications of Buffer Overflow Attacks
- Markup Language for an Interactive Geographic Information System
- Providing Routing Information Based on Ambiguous Locations
- Detecting Code Injection Attacks Against Databases
- Character Animation Using Directed Acyclic Graphs
- Asynchronous Multilevel Texture Pipeline
- Processor Having Multiple Datapath Instances
- System and Method for Delivering High-Performance Online Multimedia Services
- Combining a Marker with Contextual Information to Deliver Domain-Specific Content
- Web Host Providing for Secure Execution of CGI Programs and Method of Doing the Same
- Delegation of Permissions In An Electronic Commerce System
- Data Driven Detection of Viruses
- Interoperability of Vunerability and Intrusion Detection Systems
Articles:
Watch Out for Statutory Bars – Don't Lose Your Patent Rights Before You Even File the Application
Federal Circuit Narrows Application of the Doctrine of Equivalents