Bar Admissions

  • California
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1992
  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1974
  • B.A., magna cum laude, University of California at Berkeley, 1969
    Phi Beta Kappa

Memberships

  • Los Angeles County Bar Association

    Orange County Bar Association

    Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association

    Orange County Patent Law Association,
    Past-president

    American Intellectual Property Law Association
T 310.229.9928
F 310.229.9901
 
Stefan J. Kirchanski, Ph.D.
Partner

Stefan Kirchanski focuses his practice on intellectual property law, patent and trademark prosecution, intellectual property opinion letters, intellectual property due diligence, licensing and development agreements, and intellectual property litigation support. He specializes in biomedical technology, diagnostic instrument and software systems and his technology experience includes blood fractionation and nanotechnology fluidics. Dr. Kirchanski is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Significant Matters

  • Writes and prosecutes patents for Compass Foods Pty. Ltd of Singapore, Biomass Conversions, LLC of Rancho Palo Verdes, CA and American Biotech Labs of Alpine, UT;
  • Counsels Ruubix, Inc., a start-up company, on how to protect the intellectual property for its handheld OTC nucleic acid diagnostic system;
  • Served as the main patent prosecutor for Shanbrom Technologies of Ojai, CA;
  • Performed the due diligence for the sale of YASU Technologies to SAP; and
  • Wrote opinion letters directed to the office products of Intek America, Inc. and Michilin Prosperity, Ltd.

Dr. Kirchanski's non-legal experience includes serving as a research and development manager of Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems, a research and development scientist at Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a research fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kirchanski has a number of scientific publications and US Patents where he is a named inventor.