
Theodore D. Fay, III is a Senior Attorney with Yee & Associates. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of California San Diego in 1992. He earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from The University of Denver College of Law in 1997.
Mr. Fay specializes in patent application preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to domestic prosecution, Mr. Fay has extensive experience working with foreign associates on foreign prosecution matters, especially before the European Patent Office, but also before the Japanese and Chinese patent offices.
Mr. Fay has extensive patent prosecution experience in a variety of technical areas. He has three years of experience prosecuting patent applications for medical devices, including surgical instruments, chest compression devices, software for ECG devices, stents, catheters, pharmaceuticals, and medical procedures. Mr. Fay also has seven years of patent prosecution experience in the fields of computer hardware, software, and storage systems. Mr. Fay also has several years of experience in other areas, including wireless communication technologies, electrical systems, aircraft components, defense industry inventions, contact lenses, traffic signals, chemical mechanical planarization devices, and others.
Mr. Fay is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has a license to practice law from the State of California.
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