Todd Marlette is a Patent Attorney, licensed to practice law in Michigan, Maryland, the District of Columbia and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Todd earned his Juris Doctor degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and his Master of Laws, highest honors, from The George Washington University School of Law. Todd has published law review articles related to patents and intellectual property, some of which have been cited before the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Todd has also served on various committees for the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, related to software, industry standards, etc.
Todd received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He completed a number of research projects related to VLSI, semiconductor manufacture, and microcontrollers. Projects included: a stand-alone IC that performed 32 bit renormalization of a binary unformatted number to IEEE standard format; an AI robot incorporating a digital vision system and six-degree force-feedback manipulator; a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system to detect signature metals with ground penetrating radar; and a stand-alone microcontroller that incorporated a non-ROM PLA, 14 bit A/D converters, and on-chip L.E.D./L.C.D. drivers.