Tony Curtis is a registered patent attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. His practice includes patent procurement, portfolio management and strategic counseling in a wide range of electrical, software, and mechanical technologies. Tony previously worked as senior counsel in patent operations and portfolio management in the communications field at Verizon and Motorola Solutions. He has worked on diverse technology, including various forms of short and long-range telecommunication devices, systems, and software (e.g., apps, internal and external network communications both network and IT), healthcare-related software and devices, big data analysis and usage, Internet-related software including advertising, and business methods.

Tony received dual B.S. degrees in EE and Physics from MIT, MS’s in EE and Physics from Princeton and U of Illinois, respectively, a Ph.D. in EE from U of Illinois and a J.D. from Loyola Chicago. His Ph.D. focused on the determination of characteristics at native oxide-semiconductor interfaces for compound semiconductors using time resolved spectroscopy. 

Tony is active in the IP community. He has chaired and contributed to a number of AIPLA committees, including the patent law committee, education, AIPPI, stated meetings, emerging technologies, and standards and licensing, among others.  He has presented and written articles on a wide variety of IP-related issues, including various patent statutes and topical cases, core IP issues, upcoming technologies, and portfolio management.  Tony has also co-coordinated a number of AIPLA sessions at both the annual and spring meetings for the last several years.   He been a co-coordinator for the annual AIPLA’s Patent Prosecution Boot Camp for the last 5 years.  In addition, he has contributed to responses to PTO publications in the Federal Register, the most recently regarding fee proposals, double patenting, terminal disclaimers, research use exceptions, NFTs, and 101 AI examples.