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Dicran Hilajian, Partner

Dico, a registered U.S. patent attorney for over 24 years, received his J.D. with honors from Brooklyn Law School and also holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University with a course concentration in electromagnetic fields and waves.
 

Since 1994, Dico has worked in all aspects of the intellectual property law field helping those from Fortune 500 companies to solo inventors with their intellectual property goals. Prior to establishing their law firm as a founding partner over 15 years ago, Dico practiced intellectual property law as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for over 8 years at Philips in various fields including communication, imaging and displays, consumer products and lighting. Before working at Philips, Dico practiced intellectual property law as an associate with two Long Island-based law firms. He co-authored Patentee’s Participation in Standards Setting (The Rambus Case) of PIPA (Pacific Intellectual Property Association) Conference, 2003.

Prior to law school, Dico practiced over 14 years as an electrical engineer including 11 years for Northrop Grumman most recently as a Senior Operations Analyst with significant expertise in the fields of RF/microwave/radar, digital signal processing and filtering, electronic countermeasures, computer modeling of radar systems, electromagnetic compatibility and program integration, hardware and software modeling, program development and integration, and electromagnetic compatibility.

Areas of expertise include a wide range of technologies such as medical imaging and instrumentation including image-guided therapy, diagnostic imaging, and related systems, wired and wireless telecommunication, compression (e.g., TDMA, CDMA), and infrastructure; personal care and domestic appliances including coffee machines, shavers, vacuums, irons, cooking devices and water purifiers; display technologies including rollable displays; video/audio transmission and encoding (e.g., MPEG); watermarking and encryption; imaging; recording; signal processing and filtering; data warehousing; memory including optical; optical and radar systems; consumer electronics including digital televisions systems; recommenders; digital video recorders; lighting components and systems, electronics, control and applications; antenna design and systems, power supplies and ballasts; computer hardware; software and networks; semiconductor components, circuits and fabrications; Internet-based systems; e-commerce, and business methods; analog and digital electronics; electrical and mechanical arts.

Dico lives in Dix Hills with his wife of 36 years and enjoys home improvement projects, gardening, swimming, fishing, skiing, tennis, and Tai Chi.

Dico can be reached via e-mail at:
dico.halajian@thllp.net

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Greg

Gregory L. Thorne, Partner

Greg, a registered U.S. patent attorney with over 24 years of experience, received his J.D. with honors from St. John’s Law School, and also holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, with course concentrations in microprocessor and digital design.

Greg was born and raised in Manhattan. He earned his law degree with honor from St. John University School of Law in 1995 while working full time as an electrical engineer and went on to practice intellectual property law at a prominent NY City boutique firm and a LI firm. Greg thereafter practiced intellectual property law at Philips for over 8 years attaining a level of senior intellectual property counsel, representing its premier research facility at Briar Cliff Manor New York and a medical equipment division amongst other clients. He founded Thorne & Halajian, LLP with his partner in 2005, where he is intimately involved in all aspects of intellectual property law working with Fortune 500 companies to solo inventors.

Prior to law school, Greg graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BS in Electrical Engineering and held the title of Senior Engineer with Northrop Grumman where he worked with technology for over 11 years and became a recognized expert in software modeling of complex electronic systems, analog and digital signal processing, circuit design and integration, microprocessor control systems, video signal processing, electronic countermeasures, test program development and integration, expert systems and provided instruction and technical support to engineering staff in that capacity.

In his over 36 year career, Greg has developed expertise including in medical imaging, instrumentation image-guided therapy, robotics and medical data systems; domestic appliances; wired and wireless applications including mobile computing interfaces and applications; digital watermarking and encryption; digital displays, lighting applications and systems; consumer electronics devices and services including user interaction; computer hardware, software control and automation; and mechanical systems.

Greg lives in Northport with his wife of over 30 years, has three children and enjoys spending time with his family; tinkering with computers, electronics and cars; fishing; swimming; and home maintenance and improvements.

Greg can be reached via email at:
gregory.thorne@thllp.net

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