Dr. Ben Hudson is an experienced Patent Agent with knowledge of mechanical, software, and medical device patents. He has prosecuted both U.S. patent applications and their foreign counterparts.

Ben has technical experience in the design and construction of mechanical and electrical components for physics experiments, including analog circuit design, analog to digital conversion, spectroscopy, lasers and optical systems, familiarity with electrical and mechanical schematics, and construction and operation of plasma sources, vacuum systems, and high-voltage systems. He has also performed computational physics simulations in several high-level languages such as IDL, MATLAB and Mathematica. Ben is not a lawyer.

Representative Experience

  • Prosecuting medical device patent applications
  • Prosecuting mechanical patent applications
  • Prosecuting electrical/software patent applications

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  • Medical device patent prosecution: MRI, linear accelerators for radiation therapy, and drug delivery devices.
  • Mechanical patent prosecution: engine control systems, laser cutting/etching systems, simple mechanical devices.
  • Electrical/software patent prosecution: database management software, business application software, document analysis software, and cloud-based control systems for laser fabrication.

Professional Highlights

  • Ben has co-authored numerous published articles appearing in Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments.

Associations

  • Member, American Physical Society

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006

    B.S., Physics, University of Nebraska, 1999

Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office