Howard Cohn

Registered Patent Attorney

Mr. Cohn is a former USPTO patent examiner, and has drafted or directly supervised the prosecution of over 500 patents. He has secured numerous complex patents for Fortune 500 companies, NYSE traded companies and government entities such as NASA. Mr. Cohn has over 35 years of patent prosecution experience... more...

Dr. Gary Pisner, Ph.D.

Registered Patent Attorney

Dr. Pisner is a former National Institute of Health (NIH) researcher and designed computer-based systems for modeling and testing of drugs and for analyzing EKGs and EEGs under real-time conditions. While at NIH Dr. Pisner also designed electronic circuitry and optics for biomedical applications, isolated, tested and synthesized various bioactive peptides and proteins from animal tissue, and studied various neurotransmitters. Dr. Pisner has more than 17 years of patent prosecution experience... more...

William Brown

William Brown is Of Counsel to the firm and has over 25 years of experience in employee benefits and taxation. Bill recieved his law degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1984. Bill is licensed to practice in Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Before entering private practice, Mr. Brown was an Attorney-Advisor with the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, U.S. Department of Justice, and a law clerk for the Hon. Myron L. Gordon, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin....more...

Patricia Limbach

Registered Patent Attorney

Patricia Limbach has extensive laboratory and clinical experience, and concentrates her practice in the biological, medical device, mechanical and bio-informatics areas. She has secured medical device patents critical in helping companies become internationally competitive. She has successfully worked with foreign associates to defend intellectual property interests for her clients worldwide, and to implement successful strategies for doing so... more...

Renee Metzler

Renee Metzler concentrates her practice in patent prosecution matters. Renee received her biochemistry degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her JD from Marquette University. Prior to joining ATL, Renee worked in the biotechnology industry for over three years and has drafted numerous patents in the chemical, mechanical, and consumer products industries and has been instrumental in developing targeted protections for emerging markets. Renee was the Managing Editor of the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, and is the author of an article on comparative international patent law.

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Leni Siker, CPA/ Licensing Compliance Auditor

Leni is a Certified Public Accountant and Management Consultant with firm (CPA) with over 20 years of audit experience. Leni provides royalty audit and licensing compliance audit services private and public sector clients, and works closely with the firm's patent attorneys. Leni has performed audit services for the following clients: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development; Milwaukee County Department of Human Services; Milwaukee County Department of Aging; Wisconsin Department of Transportation; U.S. Small Business Administration; Midwest Express Convention Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage Technical Assistance Program; Deloitte & Touche (CPA Firm); BDO Seidman (CPA Firm); Clifton Gunderson (CPA Firm;Unison-Maximus Inc.

Jennifer Polinski, Paralegal/Intellectual Property Manager

Jennifer Polinski is an Intellectual Property Manager with over 7 years of trademark and patent docket management experience. Before joining ATL, Ms. Polinski was the intellectual property and legal regulatory administrator at the Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. Her responsibilities include the preparation and filing of patent applications, including PCT applications. Her experience also extends to preparation and filing of US trademark applications, renewal applications, affidavits of use and incontestability, as well as foreign trademark filings and oppositions.

Katherine Hill, Quality Control/Policy Consultant

Katherine’s major accomplishments span over twenty years in business consulting; strategic production analysis; management development; designing, developing and implementing business solutions; and project management for Government Agencies, Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and small business clients. She has performed Quality Management Programs for the Department of Defense, Small Business Administrations, State of Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, State of Wisconsin Department of Justice and the City of Milwaukee Election Commission. As specialist in improving business performance and growth, Katherine has developed performance metrics, strategic planning processes and business development plans as she has managed multi-year and multi-million dollar projects. Currently, Katherine is a consultant for Absolute Technology Law Group, L.L.C., as well as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Cardinal Stritch University.

Don Hill, Information Technology/Quality Control Analyst

As a senior consultant with over fifteen years experience, Donald has developed extensive skills process management, productivity analysis managing electronic databases, locating and retrieving data, assembling data into multiple formats and packing data and information for end users. Donald has developed multi-million dollar capital investment justifications for new and improved products and manufacturing projects. He is also a certified lead internal ISO 9001 auditor and has been charged with creating and executing audit plans for the marketing, accounting, purchasing, production and quality control fields. He is experienced with all Microsoft Office applications and is an accomplished software programmer who can develop and implement custom analysis models. Donald has lead several project teams that have handled contracts with the Small Business Administration in Washington D.C. as well as the City of Milwaukee in Wisconsin.