The TPL Group Names F. Eric Saunders Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property (IP) and Dennis Miller Vice President of IP Development Engineering.CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The TPL 1. TPL - Table Producing Language. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics Table Producing Language (TPL)", R.C. Mendelssohn, Proc ACM Annual Conf (1974). 2. TPL - Fleming Nielson. A concurrent functional language. 3. Group today announced that F. Eric Saunders Esq. has been named vice president and chief counsel for Intellectual Property (IP) reporting to chairman Dan Leckrone. In a related announcement, Dennis Miller Dennis Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, political commentator, television personality, and talk radio host. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live was appointed vice president of IP development engineering reporting to Saunders. "We've come to appreciate Eric's IP acumen over the years he has consulted with us," said Leckrone. "We're delighted that he has joined our team full time to guide TPL and its enterprise companies on IP law during a very exciting growth phase." He noted that Miller, who now reports to Saunders, moves to his new post from another TPL enterprise, IntellaSys, where he served as VP of device architecture/engineering of the design center based in Tempe Arizona. "On behalf of our IntellaSys enterprise, I want to thank Dennis for his diligent work in establishing and expanding the Tempe design center over the past two years," added Leckrone. About F. Eric Saunders Esq. Before joining TPL, Saunders was a partner in Henneman & Saunders, specialists in high-tech IP litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. and patent prosecution Patent prosecution describes the interaction between an applicant, or their representative, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application for a patent. Broadly, patent prosecution can be split into pre-grant prosecution, which involves negotiation with a patent , which served TPL as one of its clients. With more than 30 years of practical experience in computer hardware and software technologies, he has focused on patent prosecution within semiconductor, laser, multimedia and Internet disciplines. He holds a J.D. degree from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Hastings College of Law, and has been admitted to the California Bar and US District Court for the Northern District of California as well as the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Saunders studied in the Doctoral Program at the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal School of Business, and has lectured on IP law at both San Francisco State and San Jose State Universities. About Dennis Miller Miller assumes his new role following a two-year tenure with IntellaSys, another TPL enterprise, where he was instrumental in establishing the chip maker's design center in Tempe, Arizona. His 30 years high-tech experience spans semiconductor architecture, design, layout, testing, firmware development, manufacturing, and product engineering working with major chip makers such as Intel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Philips Semiconductors as well as with smaller companies such as VLSI Technology, Gigabit Logic and Burr Brown. Miller studied physics and electrical engineering at DeVry Institute of Technology, leaving early 1972 for military service in the US Coast Guard. While serving with the USCG USCG abbr. United States Coast Guard USCG n abbr (= United States Coast Guard) → Küstenwache der USA , he supervised shipboard ship·board n. 1. The condition of being aboard a ship: on shipboard. 2. Archaic The side of a ship. adj. NavCom installations and managed the Seattle District NavCom Electronics Group which made operational the first Puget Sound Vessel Traffic System RADAR network. About The TPL Group Founded in 1988, the Silicon Valley based TPL Group has emerged as a coalition of high technology enterprises involved in intellectual property development and management as well as the fabless development of system-on-chip solutions for distributed digital media processing applications. For more information, visit www.tplgroup.net. |
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