From preparing patent applications to licensing IP rights, Amir Penn manages his clients’ patent portfolios with a constant awareness of their business goals.  With two degrees in electrical engineering, including graduate study in semiconductor devices and processing, he has substantial experience prosecuting patents, drafting opinions, and managing IP rights in the fields of software-related technology, printer technology, image processing, medical devices, and wireless communications.

Identified by his peers as a Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer in Illinois, Amir has particular experience overseeing legal teams prosecuting and managing large patent portfolios.  He focuses on both the business and budget concerns of his clients, ensuring that work on any individual patent is serving their needs. His large-portfolio clients include developers of agricultural technology, printer technology, networking systems, semiconductor devices, consumer electronics, green technology, and security systems.

Amir assists clients with IP protection in the United States as well as working with foreign associates in Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Israel, South America, and other countries in which they operate. Across all of his work, he places value on strategic thinking—positioning his clients, and their specific patents, most advantageously for the future. He has taught a patent prosecution seminar at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and spoken on multiple occasions to audiences regarding patent law.

Prior to joining Lempia Summerfield Katz, Amir was a shareholder with Brinks Gilson and Lione in Chicago, an income partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago, and an associate with Leydig, Voit & Mayer in Chicago.

Non-Legal Experience

Amir worked as a co-op engineer for Comsat Laboratories and for IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.