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Eric M. Shelton* is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Washington D.C. office. He is a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution. He has prosecuted patent applications in a wide range of technologies related to the electrical, computer, and mechanical arts.
During law school, Eric served as a legal clerk in the Intellectual Property Law Division of the Office of the General Counsel for NASA. He conducted legal research on federal technology transfer law, with a focus on licensing procedures for NASA owned patents and intellectual property rights agreements with international organizations.
After obtaining his B.S. in computer science, Eric worked as an engineer for numerous corporations. He started at a Fortune 100 company developing and maintaining C++ code for the development and testing of storage subsystem microcode. Eventually he went on to be a senior development engineer for a high-speed free-space laser communication project at the University of California at Berkeley EECS Department, working to integrate new research with off-the-shelf technologies. He also worked for a small company directed at delivering commercial applications of wireless sensor networking technology, focusing on VHDL development of radio and microprocessor modules, microcode development, and testing FPGA and first silicon prototypes.
Eric is admitted to practice in Maryland and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
*Not admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. Supervised by principals of the Firm who are admitted to the District of Columbia Bar.
Education
George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2007
Indiana University, B.S., 1996 | 