A former patent examiner with the U.S. Patent Office with 15 years of private practice experience, Tim brings expertise and savvy to his dealings with the Patent Office, including reissue, reexamination, and interference proceedings. He is also highly experienced in counseling clients on a full range of patent and other intellectual property issues. Tim enjoys working with innovative clients that regularly require meaningful patent protection, and he works especially well with clients that truly value intellectual property, helping them obtain and assert their IP rights while respecting the IP rights of others.

Tim is a founding shareholder of Boyle Fredrickson and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. He is also an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, where he has taught patent prosecution for the last 10 years. He is a member of several professional organizations, a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a J.D. with honors from George Mason University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville .

Tim co-authored Changes in Patent and Copyright Law Under GATT, which was published in Wisconsin Lawyer in 1995 and co-authored Protecting American Inventors, which was published in Wisconsin Lawyer in November of 2000. He and Michael Gratz also co-authored a chapter on patent law in the Intellectual Property Law volume of the State Bar of Wisconsin Business Advisory Series, published in 2006.

(414) 225-1667
ten@boylefred.com

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