Professional Experience

Robert J. Czarnecki, Jr. is engaged in all aspects of the firms' patent practice, with a focus on complex patent litigation. Mr. Czarnecki's experience spans a wide variety of technologies, including computer software, pharmaceuticals, mobile electronic devices, electronic facsimile technology. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in multi-defendant litigations and has experience litigating cases arising under the Hatch-Waxman Act. Mr. Czarnecki also has experience with pre-suit investigations, non-infringement and invalidity opinions and intellectual property due diligence. 

Mr. Czarnecki’s undergraduate research focused on wireless interference suppression and he published a thesis entitled Adaptive Interference Suppression in M-QAM OFDM Wireless Systems in the Presence of a Non-Linear Amplifier and Phase Noise using Antenna Arrays. 

While in law school, Mr. Czarnecki worked as a scientific advisor and gained experience prosecuting domestic and international patent applications, drafting right to use and non-infringement opinions and litigating chemical and design patents, trademarks and copyrights. 

Mr. Czarnecki is a member of the Advisory Board for the Patent Law Program at New York Law School.

Education

J.D., New York Law School, 2006
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lafayette College, 2003

Bar Admissions

State of New York, 2010; State of New Jersey, 2007; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; United States District Court for the Northern District of New York; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; United States District Court for the Western District of New York; United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Professional Activities

American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; New York Intellectual Property Law Association; New York State Bar Association