Rob Tuttle is an associate in Dorsey's Patent Group and specializes in helping clients obtain patents before the Patent and Trademark Office as well as enforce them in court. Mr. Tuttle has drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications both as a patent attorney and patent agent. Representative technologies include: integrated circuit design and manufacture, computer hardware and software design, wireless communication protocols and design, seismic drilling and sensing, and petrochemical processing.
In addition, Mr. Tuttle has experience litigating highly technical patent and trade secret issues. Representative matters include UniRAM v. Monolithic Systems, Inc. et al. (ND Cal. 04-CV-1268), in which Mr. Tuttle was part of a trial team that settled all patent claims favorably and obtained a $30.5M trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract verdict against the largest semiconductor manufacturing company in the world.
Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Tuttle worked for Motorola as an integrated circuit designer for several years designing circuits for various video and digital signal processing applications such as phase locked loops, crystal oscillators, and temperature independent voltage references.