Patrick T. Driscoll

Patrick Driscoll is an Associatewith the firm and practices in all areas of intellectual property law with a focus on patent prosecution and litigation. His experience includes a wide range of electrical and computer technologies, including RF, microwave, antenna, phased array, networking, telecommunications and GPS technologies. Pat works with entities ranging from sole inventors to large corporations in the domestic and international protection of their patents and trademarks.

Prior to joining the firm, Pat worked as a Senior Electrical Engineer in the Antenna and Microwave Department at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems where he served as the desing lead of the co-site interoperability analysis of multiple radar, communications, and weapons systems for the Navy’s Zumwalt class destroyer deckhouse platform. As an engineer, Pat also designed numerous phased array and antenna systems, and microwave and RF components, for radar and communications applications, including an Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) antenna system and a dual linear wideband phased array antenna element for the Surveillance Radar Program. He has experience analyzing and optimizing manufactured performance using design of experiments techniques. In addition to his experience as a design engineer, Pat has also performed the integration and testing of antenna, radar, and communications equipment and systems in both factory and field environments.

While at Raytheon, Pat was selected by his colleagues to receive Technical Honors to recognize his exceptional individual engineering contributions formally. He was also selected for Raytheon's Micciolli – University of Massachusetts Microwave Scholar Program, in which he conceptualized and developed a MATLAB®-based simulation and analysis tool for modeling polarization compensation in phased arrays in an effort to meet the polarization isolation requirements, as a function of the phased array’s field of view, applicable to modern satellite communications systems.

While at Boston College Law School, Pat served as the President of the Intellectual Property and Technology Forum at Boston College Law School. As President, he was responsible for organizing discussion panels, which included practicing attorneys and academics, on various intellectual property topics, overseeing the publication of the on-line journal, and the development of a new website. Pat spent a summer as an intern for the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton, U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, and also held a summer and part-time position with Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds working on patent prosecution, litigation, copyright and trademark matters.
 

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association
• Boston Patent Law Association

Task Force for a Satelite Office of the USPTO, Member

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society
• Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts