PALO ALTO, Calif. - eTradeWire -- Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Ali Uyanik has joined the Palo Alto office as counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Uyanik prepares and prosecutes patents, helping companies build IP strategies for complex technologies.

Uyanik handles patent work for mixed analog-digital systems, semiconductors, computer networking, machine learning, and data security. Before practicing law, he designed custom nuclear magnetic resonance probes and worked as RF (Radio Frequency) and plasma engineer in the semiconductor industry. He also worked as a patent agent for an LED lighting startup in Silicon Valley, where he ran freedom-to-operate searches, identified patentable innovations, developed patent-mapping strategies, and coordinated prosecution with outside counsel.

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Uyanik earned his J.D. from Santa Clara University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, and his M.S. in Power Engineering from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

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