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Anthony Pericolo

Anthony Pericolo

Associate, Washington, D.C.
PHONE: 202-451-4907 FAX: 202-451-4901
Mr. Pericolo’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling.  He enjoys sharing how technology works and applies to our everyday lives, especially electronics, computing, and medical devices. Besides communicating about technology through litigation and counseling, Mr. Pericolo has written several patent applications, including his own.

Mr. Pericolo has research experience in electrical engineering and materials science in Terahertz generation. For his undergraduate senior project, Mr. Pericolo worked on a team to develop an innovative method to determine jamming using sound in a media sorter. A patent is currently pending for the teams’ work. While in law school, Mr. Pericolo was a student attorney at the Cyberlaw Clinic and the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic. At the Cyberlaw Clinic, he co-authored an amicus brief in a patent case and a comment to the USPTO on patent eligibility rules. Mr. Pericolo secured two wins at hearings for indigent veterans at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Veterans' Services and a win at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Affairs. Mr. Pericolo founded the Harvard Law School Intellectual Property Law Association.

Prior Experience:

  • Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, Washington, DC, 2022
  • Summer Associate, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP, Washington, DC, 2021

Clerk & Government Experience:

  • Judicial Intern to the Hon. Lawrence VanDyke, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2021
  • Patent Examiner Extern, United States Patent & Trademark Office, 2018

 Memberships and Affiliations:

  • The Federalist Society

 


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Representative Matters

  • Defended a multi-national high tech company in a patent infringement lawsuit involving multiple patents allegedly covering mapping software
  • Defending startup in a multi-patent assertion concerning customer relationship management software.  The work includes assertions in district court and before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board.   
  • Defended a multi-national high tech company in a multi-patent infringement lawsuit involving low-level processing code
  • Defended a multi-national high tech company in a multi-patent infringement lawsuit involving video conferencing and security measures
  • Representing three Salvadorian children to obtain legal status.

News & Publications

  • Determination of Thermal Damage Threshold in THz Photomixers Using Raman Spectroscopy, Summer 2023
  • Co-Inventor, U.S. Patent No. 12,043,509 B2, System and method for determining stacking and sorting quality in machine apparatus that process media.
  • Carrier Lifetime Engineering in Implanted GaAs on a Bragg Mirror for THz Generation, The Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves Conference, Winter 2020
  • Onset-Time Control of THz Transients Generated by Spintronic Emitters, The Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves Conference, Winter 2020

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2023; Submissions Manager, Journal of Law and Technology; Editor, Journal of Law and Public Policy 

University of Rochester, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, and B.A, Economics w/ Mathematics minor, summa cum laude, 2020; Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Prize; Floyd & Bessie Greene Memorial Prize in Economics
 

ADMISSIONS

2024, District of Columbia

2024, New York

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