Shannon Lewis is a patent agent in Pillsbury’s intellectual property practice.

Shannon has experience drafting and prosecuting patents both domestically and internationally in a wide variety of fields across engineering, technology, software and life sciences sectors.

Prior to entering the legal field, Shannon was a researcher for The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the U.S. Army Night Vision Lab and the California Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical Engineering.

Shannon is not a lawyer.

Professional Highlights

  • Recipient, Ben Streetman Prize for Early Research Excellence (2007)
  • Chemical Vapor Sensing with Novel Coupled-Channel Field-Effect Transistors [Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin] (2018) University of Texas Thesis and Dissertations
  • Co-Author, “Hybrid organic/inorganic ambipolar thin film transistor chemical sensor,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 2011, 98, 213504

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  • External Publications
    • Co-Author, “Realization of dual-channel organic field-effect transistors and their applications to chemical sensing,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 2008, 93, 133304
    • Co-Author, “Molecular-Beam epitaxy growth of device-compatible GaAs on silicon substrates with thin (~80 nm) Si1xGex step-graded buffer layers for high-K III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor applications,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 2007, 25, 1098-1102
    • Co-Author, “Unintentional calcium incorporation in Ga(Al, In, N)As,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 2007, 25, 1058-1062

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2018
    (Solid State Electronics)

    M.S.E., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007

    B.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2005
    (Materials)

Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office