Ross T. Robinson
Shareholder
Dallas
5400 Renaissance Tower
1201 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75270
214.745.5185 Direct
214.745.5390 Fax
rrobinson@winstead.com
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Ross Robinson is a shareholder in Winstead's Intellectual Property Practice Group. His practice emphasizes U.S. and foreign patent preparation and prosecution, including preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, reexamination of issued patents, preparation of opinions regarding patent infringement and validity, and client counseling, particularly in the areas of electronics, telecommunications, computer software, computer systems and networks, Internet applications, and business methods.

Ross has prepared and prosecuted patent applications covering a wide range of technologies and business sectors. He has drafted and/or prosecuted numerous complex patents for inventions involving speech coding, packet-switched and circuit-switched wireless technologies, digital communications systems, encryption technologies, control systems, digital signal processing, computer software and hardware, environmental impact systems, operator services automation, operator-assistance voice interface workstations, directory-assistance systems, e-commerce, energy management, operational planning, project-work management and administration, medical claims processing, financial transactions, and project quality assurance.

Representative Experience

  • U.S. and foreign patent preparation and prosecution
  • Non-infringement, invalidity, and clearance opinions
  • Counseling regarding intellectual property portfolios and exploitation strategies in view of expected product development, patent design-around efforts and corporate expansion
Bar Admissions
  • Texas, 1993
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Education
University of Texas School of Law
  • J.D., 1993
  • with honors
Texas A&M University
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1989
  • cum laude
Professional & Community Involvement
  • American Bar Association
  • Arlington Bar Association 
  • Dallas Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section)
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Association of University Technology Managers
  • International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
  • International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
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