We blend deep technical know-how with experienced patent expertise. Our team members have prior careers at Micron, Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Boeing. Our attorneys graduated from Duke, Texas, Gonzaga, and Harvard law schools, to name just a few.
State of Michigan
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Michigan State University College of Law
Juris Doctorate
Hope College
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Justin has drafted and prosecuted a considerable number of patent applications following industry best practices for individual inventors and multination corporations. His experience as an engineer and as a patent attorney has encompassed extensive cutting-edge technologies, as listed.
Prior to joining Colby Nipper, Justin advocated for clients at all levels of the federal judiciary and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has experience in a variety of intellectual property topics, including patents, trade secrets, and copyrights. He has also counseled clients on open source software and privacy issues.
Cybersecurity: asymmetric cryptography, symmetric cryptography, open-ssl, NIST, MITRE
Machine Learning: convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, LSTM, BERT, transformers, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, DQN, A3C, unsupervised clustering
Control Systems: nuclear safety systems, turbine control systems, graphical user interfaces
Software Fields: data structures, cloud computing, informatics, containers, virtualization