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Ira S. Matsil
Phone: (972) 732-1001
Fax: (972) 732-9218
E-Mail: matsil@slater-matsil.com
BIOGRAPHY
Ira S. Matsil, one of the founders of the firm, focuses his practice on the technical aspects of patent portfolio management and strategy, including patent licensing, patent litigation support, and all phases of patent prosecution, including reexaminations and reissues. His practice also involves patent opinion work, including infringement and validity studies.
Ira's innate intellectual curiosity led him first to electrical engineering, then to the law. He worked at Texas Instruments as a lead engineer and program manager prior to attending law school. Ira worked in Texas Instruments’ legal department as a patent agent during law school and later as an attorney. At Texas Instruments, Ira was involved in semiconductor license negotiations and patent prosecution in numerous fields. Ira's technical expertise also includes electronic circuits, telecommunications, optics, and computer software and hardware.
Ira’s background at a Fortune 200 technology company allows him to fully appreciate his clients’ overall business needs and objectives. Using his electrical engineering experience, Ira helps his clients to reach their business goals by protecting and leveraging their intellectual property assets. His clients appreciate Ira’s in-depth understanding of their technology and his innovative approaches to their legal and business needs.
Ira routinely works with large corporate clients, both domestic and foreign, on their most complex and challenging intellectual property matters. He also works with growing companies to devise ways to develop their portfolios. This includes working with engineers, managers, and in-house attorneys to determine what can and should be protected.
Ira has been retained as a technical resource on patent infringement cases and has worked with litigation teams at law firms nationwide. In these matters, Ira assists with critically important, highly technical patent and technology issues.
EDUCATION
Ira graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987, received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1992, and graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in 1995. Ira was an Editor of the SMU Law Review and an Order of the Coif law school graduate.
MEMBERSHIPS
Ira is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Dallas Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section), and the Dallas-Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law Association. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
SPEECHES & PUBLICATIONS
Ira has written on a number of intellectual property topics that include:
- Ira S. Matsil, Invited Paper, What Every ESD Engineer Needs to Know About Patents, 1997 Electrical Oversites/Electrostatic Discharge Symposium Proceedings 205, San Jose, Ca. (1997).
- Ira S. Matsil, Patentability of Computer Apparatus: Resolution at Last?, Winter 1996/1997 Computer Law & Technology Journal 31 (1996-1997).
- Ira S. Matsil, Protecting Intellectual Property: Why Bother?, Nov.-Dec. 1996 Texas Instruments Technical Journal 4 (1996).
- Ira S. Matsil, Government Seizures of Trade Secrets: What Protection Does the Takings Clause Provide?, Mar.-Apr. 1995 SMU L. Rev. 687 (1995).
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