Norman Brunell specializes in representing high technology hardware, software and e-commerce clients in intellectual property matters with a focus on the business value and uses of patent portfolios. He has substantial expertise in developing and analyzing patent portfolios as well as in complex patent prosecution matters.

Mr. Brunell is a registered Patent Attorney with three decades of intellectual property expertise, including substantial patent prosecution, licensing and litigation support experience related to computer, software, integrated circuit, satellite, communication, GPS as well as medical and control instrumentation products.

Mr. Brunell has a strong hands-on engineering background, particularly in computer systems and integrated circuit design and manufacture from his work as an electronics engineer at Sprague Electric, General Dynamics and the Foxboro Company. He has substantial corporate intellectual property experience, having served as in-house patent counsel for the Foxboro Company and for Western Atlas International. Mr. Brunell has developed substantial business and international intellectual property expertise as Litton Industries' International Patent & Licensing counsel, responsible for Litton's major intellectual property transactions in Europe, Asia and South America. In addition to his extensive experience, he has also been named to the Southern California "Super Lawyers" list by Los Angeles Magazine in 2006.

Mr. Brunell has represented Litton Industries, Western Atlas Int'l, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Cal Tech, JPL, NASA, Northrop, Hewlett-Packard, Candle, SiRF, SEGA Gameworks, Broadcom, Capstone Turbine, Charter Communications and other major high-tech companies, in complex patent prosecution and related transactional matters.

Bar & Court Admissions

• 1973, Massachusetts; 1975, California
• 1973, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office