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Peter VerdonkEuropean Patent Attorney E-mail: peter.verdonk@deltapatents.com |
Specialist areas
As a patent practitioner, I have worked in many technical fields among which the following:
- Semiconductors manufacturing processes
- Electronic circuitry from transistor level upwards
- Consumer electronics equipment, e.g., displays, set top boxes (STBs), remote controls
- User interfaces, e.g., touch screens, graphical tablets, mice, trackballs and joysticks
- Processors from register level upwards, e.g., Trimedia, microcontroller architectures
- Data processing apparatus, systems and networks, e.g., home networks, video gaming, multi-user distributed applications
- Software, e.g., video games, anti-virus software, network bridges, search engines, email services, windowing
- Business models, e.g., advertisements on data network, help-desk functionality
Professional Education
- MS degree from the University of Eindhoven (Physics)
- Dutch patent attorney
- European Patent Attorney
- Passed US Patent Bar exam
Career
Peter studied Physics at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Upon graduating with honours, he worked on temporary assignments as scientific assistant at this university and at the KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute). Thereafter he took a job at the patent department headquarters of Philips Electronics where he worked as a patent practitioner for well over 20 years. During this period he received two overseas assignments, and worked as a patent practitioner in Silicon Valley for over seven years and about six months at the corporation's US patent department in New York. Peter joined DeltaPatents in 2006.