Alex Tucker

Alex Tucker counsels clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, IP transactions and licensing, and portfolio analysis and management. He also prepares infringement, patentability, invalidity and freedom-to-operate opinions, and provides litigation support for complex technical disputes. Working across numerous fields, such as with chemical and petrochemical technologies, semiconductor devices and fabrication, automotive technologies, artificial intelligence, including advances in neural network architectures, wireless communications and standards, medical devices, nanotechnology, and consumer electronics, Alex represents clients across an industry spectrum that includes manufacturing, electronics, computing, healthcare and telecommunications.

Alex’s previous experience includes serving as a patent associate for a global law firm, where he drafted and prosecuted patent applications for Fortune 100 companies. Alex also served as a patent examiner for the US Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to practicing law, Alex worked as a process engineer for Shaw Energy & Chemicals (formerly Stone & Webster), where he focused on petrochemical plant design including ethylene steam cracking furnaces (olefins), kinetics simulation and yield prediction, radiant and convective heat transfer systems, and mercaptan and acid gas removal (e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal from vapor streams).