John F. O’Rourke, Esq., MSEE WHGC, P.L.C. 1301 Dove Street Suite #1050 Newport Beach, CA 92660 Toll Free: 866-970-0186 Phone: 949-833-8483 Fax: 949-833-2281 ContactUs@WHGCLaw.com


Areas of Practice ❚ Intellectual Property ❚ Technology Transfer ❚ Competitive Intelligence


Bar Admissions


❚ U.S Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2005 ❚ District of Columbia, 1995 ❚ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1995 ❚ U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 1994


❚ U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1994 ❚ Pennsylvania, 1993


U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1993


Education ❚ J.D., Temple University School of Law, 1993


❚ M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, 1989


❚ B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, 1984


❚ A.S. in Nursing, Atlantic Community College, New Jersey, 1977


Professional Associations and


Memberships ❚ Senior Member of IEEE and member of IEEE Computer Association for 30 years ❚ District of Columbia Bar Association


John F. O’Rourke is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who


has attained Senior Member status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He serves as a key member of WHGC’s Intellectual Property Group. Mr. O’Rourke earned his J.D. from Temple University School of Law and received his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University. His areas of practice include matters related to technology and intellectual property law with emphasis in the areas of patent assertion, validity, right-to-use, claim coverage, infringement and enforcement, strategic foreign patent filing, design patents, and trademark selection, and the identification and preservation of trade secrets.


Mr. O’Rourke has a reputation for tackling complex cases, and has prepared over 500 original U.S. patent applications across a spectrum of technical disciplines. In 1998, Mr. O’Rourke prosecuted the first social network news aggregator technology with one of the largest search engine websites in the 1990’s. This technology remains critical to current search engine platforms today. In another notable example, Mr. O’Rourke is responsible for drafting the patent for the current air traffic control system which monitors airport air and ground traffic. This system is now owned by Northrop Grumman’s aerospace sector. It is mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration to be present in all large airports and nationwide.


His industries of experience include semiconductor and optical devices, materials and fabrication; computer, communication and network components, interfaces, systems, and protocols; adaptive and multidimensional signal processing architectures and techniques; coding and error-correction devices and protocols; embedded systems and multimode human-computer interfaces; operating systems, compilers, and applications programs; biometric, cryptographic, and secure communication systems; biomedical and radiological devices; biological and molecular computing; safety devices, shredding and comminuting systems; simple mechanical devices; optics and cameras.


Prior to practicing as an attorney, Mr. O’Rourke served as a Research Engineer at Villanova University where he developed unique solutions for Space Systems Division and General Electric Corporation. Well-versed with the medical and healthcare industries, Mr. O’Rourke has more than 20 years of experience as a Clinical Research Nurse where he worked with medical devices, medical research protocols, drug and device studies, and the like. In 1998, he was awarded the John J. Gallen Memorial Award at Villanova University in recognition of his contributions to the fields of healthcare, computer engineering, telecommunications, aerospace, and intellectual property. He is the first attorney to ever receive that award.


IC and Computer-Related Experience:


Advanced processor and controller architectures: MIMD, SIMD, VLIW, RISC; Multiprocessing and multithreading techniques and strategies. Speculative, branch prediction, and ILP techniques and strategies; Cache memories and buffers: hierarchical, multiport, associative, CAM designs; Shared memory multiprocessing and memory management units; SOC, multi-core and MCM devices and techniques; Electrical, optical, RF/microwave and multimode signaling methods; VLSI design, fabrication, packaging, testing and production: CMOS, GaAs, InP, SiC; Busses, bus interfaces, multilevel signaling, I/O processing and optimization; Fabrication optimization; and Low power methods such as power, floor plan, layout, and instruction set development and optimization.


Telecommunications and Network Experience:


Adaptive signal processing and architectures; spatial and frequency diversity; multidimensional and array signal processing, including image processing; ISO/OSI Reference Model Layer 1 and 2, including PHY & MAC; ISO/OSI Reference Model Layer 3 & 4, including IEEE 802.x, TCP/IP, and X.25; Wireless including WiFi, Bluetooth, WPAN, and NFC; Signal conditioning and timing management: clocks, CDR, oscillators, PLL, VCO; Modulation devices and methods: AM, FM, PSK, FSK, QAM, PAM, OFDM; Broadcast/access techniques and architectures: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA; Mobile wireless and cellular telecommunications systems and networks: analog and digital (4G+); coding techniques: Reed-Solomon, BCH, turbo, LDPC and Viterbi techniques; components: FEC, transceivers, interleavers, constellation map/MUX; Audio/video amplifiers, filters and coding; Acoustic techniques; Smart phones and personal communication devices; and Internet protocols and languages.


Publications and Lectures:


“Root Map Characterization of Interference Location in a Wide Aperture Antenna Array,” Proceedings of the 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 1989.


“The Use of Root Maps in Antenna Arrays,” M.S.E.E. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 1989.


“The Effects of Steering Phase Errors on the Optimum Applebaum Array,” Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989.


“The Effects of Thermal Noise Power and Steering Phase Errors on Interference Location in the Optimum Applebaum Array,” Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989.


“Root Map Characterization of Interference Location in a Wide Aperture Antenna Array, Technical Note, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989.

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