Ellis, Whitney

E. Marcie Emas is a senior attorney in the Washington office of Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP.

Marcie focuses her practice on patent prosecution in a wide array of technical fields. She has experience in many phases of drafting and prosecuting patent applications and reissue applications, and has presented many oral arguments before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

Marcie has technical experience with electrical, mechanical, optical and computer-related subject matters, including semiconductors, semiconductor fabrication, communication systems, software relating to a variety of technologies, electrical conductors, automotive technology, noise filters, computer circuits, laser diodes, positioning devices, collision-avoidance systems, brake systems, fuel control systems, transmission power control systems, lens systems, ultrasonic inspection devices, speaker systems, read only memories, sense amplifiers, parts assembly systems, wiring boards, antennas, phase-locked loop circuits and power steering systems.

Marcie was counsel to Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, one of the oldest and largest law firms in the United States focusing exclusively on intellectual property, unitl its lawyers and other professionals joined Buchanan in 2005. Prior to that, she worked in private industry in a number of different technical areas. She was a program manager for a government contractor that developed an Atlas compiler used by the Navy to run automatic test equipment. Marcie has also worked as a program scientist providing support for anti-submarine warfare.

Having worked as a major systems analyst developing software for flight simulators for EA-6B and A-6 aircraft for the Navy, Marcie gained knowledge of fuel, hydraulic and brakes systems, as well as automatic landing systems. She also served as a systems engineer with the research and development division of Eastman Kodak Company.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Maryland Patent Law Association and the International Intellectual Property Association.

Marcie received her J.D. degree in 1985 from the Geroge Washington University National Law Center. She earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1973 from Pennsylvania State University.

She is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.