Ryan Flandro, a registered patent attorney, helps domestic and multi-national companies, including start-ups and independent inventors, develop patent strategies consistent with their business, technical and cost objectives. Ryan’s practice focuses on patent procurement proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He also has experience in reissue and ex parte reexamination proceedings.

Ryan counsels clients on patent-related issues, including: developing and managing patent portfolios; conducting patent due diligence investigations; and counseling clients regarding patentability, validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions. Specifically, he conducts patent clearance studies and advises on product design-arounds, renders formal and informal noninfringement and/or invalidity opinions concerning competitors’ patents, conducts pre-litigation infringement analysis and strategy, and performs IP audits.

Ryan’s technical knowledge encompasses a variety of areas in the mechanical, electro-mechanical, medical device, business-method and e-commerce fields. He is experienced counseling clients and preparing and prosecuting applications in the following technologies:

• unmanned air vehicle (UAV) systems;
• people movers;
• seals;
• large-scale processing machines; and
• systems in fields including tobacco, paper, textiles, plastic containers, ski and snowboard technologies, automated tax preparation software, and a wide range of consumer products. 

Ryan also has prosecution and litigation experience in medical-related technologies such as catheters, drug-eluting stents, barbed sutures, medically-acceptable polymers and airway management technologies, including laryngeal masks and endotracheal tubes, to name but a few.

Early in his career, Ryan was a patent examiner at the USPTO. He also served as an extern at the USPTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences assisting an Administrative Patent Judge. Ryan also held engineering and manufacturing design positions at several technology companies.