Tucson Office
One South Church Avenue Suite 1700
Tucson,
Arizona
85701
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Professional Experience
Yakov Sidorin, Ph.D., is an associate in the Firm’s Tucson Intellectual Property Practice Group. His patent prosecution practice, both in the U.S. and in multiple foreign jurisdictions, focuses primarily in areas including optical technologies, medical imaging and spectroscopy, semiconductors, physics, electrical and mechanical engineering. Prior to practicing law, Dr. Sidorin contributed to the development of optical sciences and technologies as an engineer, scientist, chief technology officer and director of research and development of established companies and several start-ups, one of which delivered products to market and was acquired. He held an adjunct faculty position at the Optical Sciences Center, the University of Arizona.
Education and Honors
- University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D., 2007)
- University of Arizona (Ph.D., 1998)
Ph.D. in Optical Sciences.
- Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Russia) (with honors, 1989)
Degree: Engineering.
Bar Admissions
Arizona,
2010
Massachusetts,
2007
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 2008
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2008
Professional and Civic Activities
- Organizer and chair of international symposia of SPIE.
- Reviewer of articles submitted to Journal of Optical Engineering and Topical Editor for two of its special issues.
- Reviewer of technical publications for Optics and Photonics News, Optics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Optics Express.
- Author of multiple publications and presentations.
- Named inventor on 16 issued U.S. and foreign patents.
Selected Presentations/Publications
- G. Milczarek-Desai and Y. Sidorin, “First Sale Defense to Copyright Infringement Does Not Apply to Certain Goods Resold in the U.S. — At Least in the States of the 9th Circuit,” Intellectual Property Litigation Update, December 2010.
- T. Carey and Y. Sidorin, “After Quanta, Lower Courts Expand the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine”, Intellectual Property Update, April 2009.
- Y. Sidorin, “New Ruling Portends Stricter Screening of patent Applications for Claim Ambiguities”, Intellectual Property Update, January 2009.
- Co-instructor, “How to Choose the Best Ways to Protect your Firm’s Innovative Technologies: A Patent Primer for Engineering Managers and Engineers,” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Boston Chapter, November 2008.
- Y. Sidorin, D. Lunt, and B. Ralph Chou, “Etalon based filters for solar and atmospheric research,” J. Opt. Eng., v. 44, p. 076001, July 2005.
- Y. Sidorin, A.G. Lunt, J. Bergthold, B. Keith, and D. Lunt, “Fabrication of high-precision solar filters: variety and limitations,” Proc. SPIE, v. 5494, pp. 512-519, 2004.
- Y. Sidorin, D. Lunt, M.A. Krainak, M.A. Stephen, A.J. Martino, R.S. Lancaster, and G.R. Allan, “Tunable solid-etalon filter for use in lidar receivers,” Proc. SPIE, v. 5542, pp. 133-140, 2004.
- N.H. Zaun, C. Weiner, Y. Sidorin, and D. Lunt, “Solid-etalon for the CALIPSO lidar receiver,” Proc. SPIE, v. 5542, pp. 141-145, 2004.
- Y. Sidorin and D. Lunt, “Etalon-based solar filters can perform multiple tasks,” OE Magazine, pp.24-26, June 2004.
- M. Vainio, M. Merimaa, Y. Sidorin, M. Kuittinen, and E. Ikonen, “Miniaturized transmission grating laser at 1.55 micron with 128-nm tuning range,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 15, pp. 990-993, July 2003.
- Y. Sidorin, “On the accuracy of the measurement of propagation loss in channel waveguides using the Fabry-Perot resonance method,” Opt. Commun., 194, pp.325-330, July 2001.
- Y. Sidorin and R. V. Shack, “Measurement of laser diode astigmatism using the beam-line method,” J. Opt. Eng., 40, pp. 995-1000, June 2001.
- Y. Sidorin and A. Cheng, “Integration of Bragg gratings on LiNbO3 channel waveguides using laser ablation,” Electron. Lett., 37, pp. 312-314, 2001.
- Y. Sidorin and D. Howe, “Using fiber butt-coupling for light delivery to the write/read objective in optical recording,” J. Opt. Eng., 39, pp. 787-791, March 2000.
- Y. Sidorin, P. Karioja, and M. Blomberg, “Novel tunable laser diode arrangement with a micromachined silicon filter: feasibility,” Opt. Commun., 164, pp. 121-127, June 1999.
- J. Aikio, Y. Sidorin, M. Blomberg and P. Karioja, in Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices VII, P. Blood, A. Ishibashi and M. Osinski, Eds., Proc. SPIE, v.3625, 1999.
- Y. Sidorin, M. Blomberg and P. Karioja, “Demonstration of a tunable hybrid laser diode using an electrostatically tunable silicon micromachined Fabry-Perot interferometer,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 11, pp. 18-20, Jan 1999.
- Y. Sidorin and D. Howe, “Some characteristics of an extremely-short-external-cavity laser diode realized by butt-coupling a Fabry- Perot laser diode to a singlemode optical fiber,” Appl. Opt, 37, pp. 3256-63, 1998.
- Y. Sidorin, S.L. Semjonov and M.M. Bubnov, “Strength and fatigue measurements using optical fibers with laser induced glass defects,” Opt. Mat., 10, pp. 79-83, April 1998.
- Y. Sidorin, P. Karioja and D. Howe, in Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices V (Eds. M. Osinski and W. W. Chow), Proc. SPIE, v.2994, pp. 772-779, 1997.
- Y. Sidorin and D. Howe, “Laser diode wavelength tuning based on butt-coupling into an optical fiber,” Opt. Lett., 22, pp. 802-804, June 1997.
- Y. Sidorin and D. Howe, in Optical Data Storage (Eds. H. Birecki and J. Z. Kwiecien), Proc. SPIE, v.3109, pp. 133-141, 1997.
- E. V. Anoikin, V.M. Mashinsky, V.B. Neustruev and Y. S. Sidorin, “Effects of exposure to photons of various energies on transmission of germanosilicate optical fiber in the visible to near IR spectral range,” J. Non-Crystalline Solids, v. 179, pp. 243-253, 1994.
- E. M. Dianov, V. M. Mashinsky, V. A. Myzina, Y. S. Sidorin, A. M. Streltsov and A. V. Chickolini, “Change of refractive index profile in the process of laser-induced fibre damage,” Sov. Lightwave Commun., 2, pp. 293-299, 1992.
- E. M. Dianov, V.M. Mashinsky, Y. S. Sidorin, A.M. Streltsov and A. V. Chickolini, “Modification of refractive index profile as a result of laser-induced fibre damage,” in Solid-State Optical Materials (Eds. A. J. Bruce and B. V. Hiremath), Ceramic Transactions, v. 28, The Amer. Ceram. Soc., Westerville, OH, 1992.
- Y. S. Sidorin, A. M. Streltsov and A.V. Tarasov, “Active mode locking in a continuously pumped YA1O3: Nd 3+ laser (λ = 1.34μm),” Kvantovaya Elektronika, 7, pp. 1575-6, 1990.
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