Karl Renner

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About Karl Renner

Professional experience Karl Renner is a Principal in the Washington, D.C. office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Mr. Renner co-chairs the firm’s Reexamination Practice and International Practice Groups, and he also serves on the firm's Management Committee. His practice emphasizes client counseling, strategic patent prosecution, contentious inter and ex parte reexamination and reissue work, due diligence and freedom-to-operate investigations, and patent-related opinion work. Mr. Renner manages the patent portfolios of clients ranging from emerging companies to Fortune 50 corporations. Mr. Renner also regularly advises on effective commercialization/enforcement of company IP, and on defensive tactics to address competitor IP. Mr. Renner is technically focused on the electrical, computer-related, physics and mechanical arts. As such, he has extensive experience in the following technologies: Internet-driven solutions, network systems and protocols, data storage and retrieval standards and media, microprocessor and computer architecture, mobile and other communications equipment and processes, display technologies, semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, signal and image processing techniques, complex optical and mechanical devices, error detection and correction techniques, cryptography, telecommunications, financial processes, acoustics and video standards and equipment, and thermodynamic processes and systems. Mr. Renner has prior engineering experience with the Instrumentation Branch of the U.S. Department of Energy, where he worked on the development and implementation of control systems, high-frequency optical imaging of particles during combustion processes, computer programming in machine and object oriented languages, and computer design and breadboard testing of analog circuits. Education BS, University of Maryland, Electrical Engineering JD, George Washington University Law School Specialties: Patent Reexamination (Ex Parte, Inter Partes, appeal) Strategic and Targeted Patent Prosecution