Kinard, Murry

Vishal Khatri counsels domestic and international corporations in developing, maintaining, and enforcing their strategic intellectual property portfolios.

Vishal has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications related to advanced technological developments such as cellular communications, memory devices, LEDs, plasma displays, LCD displays, general ASIC fabrication and packaging, computer networking, medical devices, consumer electronics, and financial methods. Vishal has drafted several patentability, noninfringement, validity/invalidity, and freedom-to-operate/clearance opinions. He also has been involved in numerous patent litigations, including Section 337 cases before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Vishal has substantial experience in wireless communications, including analog and digital cellular telephone technologies and third-generation wireless technologies, wired and wireless networking technologies, GPS, and software design and implementation. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications primarily in the electrical and computer science disciplines but also has substantial experience in procuring business/financial method patents.

Prior to beginning his legal career, Vishal worked at engineering/consulting firms, where he designed power plants for customers around the world and designed and implemented software solutions for the federal government. He also was a radio frequency (RF) engineer and worked on optimization of TDMA wireless networks for various clients. Through his work with optimization he has gained experience with GSM, TDMA, and CDMA and with third-generation technologies, including WCDMA and CDMA2000. Vishal also has extensive course work in the fields of control systems and digital circuitry at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Vishal is coauthor of Chapter 5 — "Protecting Intellectual Property in E-Commerce Software Patents" in E-Commerce Financial Products and Services, published by Smith and the Law Journal Press (2005).