Frank received a B.E.E.E. degree, magna cum laude, from Manhattan College in 1989 and a J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1994. Frank was an Electrical Engineer with A.I.L. Systems from 1990 through 1991, where he was involved in the testing and development of microwave monolithic integrated circuits and radar systems. Frank has a wide range of legal experience including commercial litigation, preparing and prosecuting U.S. and PCT patent applications, client counseling and strategizing in a wide variety of intellectual property matters relating to patents, trademarks and copyrights, and providing legal services such as patent infringement and validity studies, patent licensing and litigation, and trademark prosecution and motion practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board with regard to trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings. Frank has prepared and prosecuted patent applications for a broad range of technologies including telecommunications, speech and handwriting recognition, biometric identification systems, computer architecture, networking, and programming, distributed computing systems, e-business systems and applications, semiconductor chip fabrication and packaging, semiconductor memory architectures, LCD architecture, medical imaging systems and applications, data compression systems, microwave and millimeter wave communications systems and devices, millimeter wave antenna systems for chip scale packaging and wireless laptop solutions, digital and analog electronics, audio/video processing and communications systems and applications such as MPEG, JPEG and MP3 encoding technologies, optical systems and fiber optic devices, and various mechanical and biological arts. Frank is admitted to the State Bars of New York and New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Frank is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies.
Email: fvd@rml-law.com