16 Years Building Strong IP Portfolios for Silicon Valley Companies
Defending companies from conception, through founding rounds, to IPO
Stellar Scientific Background
Postdoctoral studies at Stanford following award winning Ph.D.
Deep Knowledge Integrating Diverse Technologies
Rigorous understanding spanning large scale robotic systems and small molecule constructs
Wide Technological Understanding
- Robotics
- Control Systems
- Sensors
- Mechanical Engineering
- Lasers
- Computer Systems
- Material Science
- Nanotechnology
- Renewable Energy
- Metallurgy
- Small Molecules
- Pharmaceuticals
- Medical Devices
- Medical Kits
- Diagnostics
- Microfluidics
- Chemical Processing
- Food Industry
- Environment Conscious Living Spaces
- Building Automation
- Interactive Media Display
- Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property scope
Dr. Ronit Buller focuses on strategic intellectual property counseling in a wide range of technical fields. Her legal expertise includes patent strategy, patent prosecution, and patent due diligence including freedom-to-operate analyses, e.g., for financings, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings.
Dr. Buller has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions, including Europe, China, Japan, S. Korea, Canada and Australia. She provides legal counseling to companies at various stages of growth, from pre-financing start-ups to public companies, and has serviced companies in growing their intellectual property portfolios through these stages also as an in-house counsel.
Prior to establishing this firm, Dr. Buller worked as an in-house counsel concerning metal 3D printers, and building automation - including controlled IoT device networks, e.g., using artificial intelligence.
Highlights
Dr. Ronit Buller developed Velo3D's IP portfolio from its first patent asset. This IP portfolio received the following assessment from SmarTech industry analysts: “Velo3D and Desktop Metal have impressive patent portfolios. Some of the most impressive patent portfolios are held by smaller firms. Velo3D is currently the top assignee of patents for 3D printing metals,” a technological field in existence for more than 40 years merging material science, physics, software, mechanical engineering, sensors, and control systems, e.g., robotics.
During Dr. Buller's Ph.D. centering on organized semiconductor nanoparticles, as a side project, she unraveled the binding site of antimalarial drugs, which was an enigma for half a century.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg025550i?journalCode=cgdefu
Registrations
State Bar of California - California Attorney Since Jun. 2013
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Patent Agent/Attorney Since Feb. 2012
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Toledo college of law, Toledo, Ohio, US
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, US
Ph.D., Chemistry – Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL
M.S., Chemistry – Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL
B.S., Chemistry – Organic Chemistry and Microbiology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IL
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Insights
(Pb1–xCdx)S Nanoparticles Embedded in a Conjugated Organic Matrix, as Studied by Photoluminescence and Light-Induced X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 12, Issue 10, pages 713–718, 2002.
Authors: R. Buller, H. Cohen, E. Minkin, R. Popovitz-Biro, E. Lifshitz, M. Lahav
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1616-3028(20021016)12:10%3C713::AID-ADFM713%3E3.0.CO;2-6
Quinoline Binding Site on Malaria Pigment Crystal: A Rational Pathway for Antimalaria Drug Design
Crystal Growth & Design, volume 2, issue 6, pp 553–562, 2002
Authors: Ronit Buller, Matthew L. Peterson, Örn Almarsson, and Leslie Leiserowitz
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg025550i?journalCode=cgdefu
Crystalline self-assembly of organic molecules with metal ions at the air–aqueous solution interface. A grazing incidence X-ray scattering study
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 208, Issues 1-3, Pages 3-27, 2002
Authors: I. Weissbuch, R. Buller, K. Kjaer, J. Als-Nielsen, L. Leiserowitz, M. Lahav
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927775702001127
Magneto-Optical Measurements of Chromophore/Semiconductor Nanocrystalline Superstructures
ChemPhysChem, Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 343–349, 2002 - Cover Picture
Authors: Marina Sirota 1, Leonid Fradkin, Ronit Buller, Volker Henzel, Meir Lahav, Efrat Lifshitz
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12465513/
Crystalline Corrugation in Multilayer Films on Aqueous Subphases
Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 86, Issue 8, pages 2711–2725, 2003
Authors: R. Buller, I. Weissbuch, S. Cohen, K. Kjaer, M. Lahav, L. Leiserowitz
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hlca.200390221
Self-Assembly of Bolaamphiphiles Forming Alternating Layer Arrangements with Lead and Copper Divalent Ions
J. Phys. Chem. B, volume 105, issue 46, pp 11447–11455, 2001
Authors: R. Buller, Hagai Cohen, T. R. Jensen, K. Kjaer, M. Lahav, and L. Leiserowitz
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp0116508?journalCode=jpcbfk
Formation of Chiral Interdigitated Multilayers at the Air-Liquid Interface Through Acid-Base Interactions
Science, Volume 274 Issue 5295 pp. 2046-2049, 1996
Authors: I Kuzmenko, R Buller, WG Bouwman, K Kjaer, J Als-Nielsen, M Lahav, L Leiserowitz
REsume - Dr. Ronit Buller
WORK EXPERIENCE
R. Buller Law, Cupertino, CA December 2023 – Present
- Servicing clients in IP matters
Velo3D Inc., Publicly traded company. Fremont, CA
Vice President Intellectual Property November 2021 – November 2023
- Servicing in fields including robotics, sensors, control systems, computer systems, lasers, mechanical engineering, material science (e.g., metallurgy), 3D printing, and artificial intelligence
- Strategic IP asset generation enforcement & management, leading oppositions and appeals, prosecuting patents hands-on, drafting & filing patent applications, overseeing trademark prosecution (including opposition), drafting IP contract clauses, harvesting inventions, and performing patentability and Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis
- Conducting IP Due Diligence resulting in opinions to financial institutions, participating in IP contract negotiations
View, Inc., Mature startup to publicly trading. Milpitas, CA
Director of Intellectual Property August 2019 – October 2021
- Servicing in fields including robotics, sensors, control systems, mechanical engineering, computer systems, material science (e.g., electrochromic constructs), environment conscious living spaces, building automation, cellular communication networks (e.g., 5G), interactive media displays, and artificial intelligence
- Counseling on IP strategy of a ~1500 IP asset portfolio, hands-on prosecuting, drafting, and filing patent applications, leading opposition, performing and analyzing patentability and FTO, managing diverse US & Int’l docket, overseeing IP agreements, and harvesting inventions
Velo3D Inc., Emerging to mid-size startup. Campbell, CA
Head of Intellectual Property March 2015 – August 2019
- Creating from scratch IP portfolio of ~ 300 IP assets (mostly patent) in ~4 years at a budget of $100K/Month
- Counseling on IP strategy of a startup, hands-on prosecuting, drafting, and filing patent applications, performing patentability & FTO search and analysis, conducting IP Due Diligence, IP agreements, and invention harvesting of multidisciplinary technology in the fields recited above for Velo3D
- Creating from scratch, and managing US & int’l trademark, utility & design patent portfolio.
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati (WSGR), IP law firm. Palo Alto, CA
Patent Attorney October 2013 – March 2015
- Servicing clients in fields including medical devices, medical kits, robotics, sensors, computer systems, high powered lasers, microfluidics, chemical processing, material science, nanotechnology, small molecules, genomics, food industry, and bioinformatics
- Counseling on IP strategy, prosecuting, drafting, and filing patent applications, Opinion Letters, post grant proceedings (IPR), IP licensing agreements, performing patentability & FTO analysis, managing outside counsels
MacMillan Sobanski and Todd (MST), IP law firm. Toledo, OH
Scientific Advisor to Patent Agent December 2008 – June 2012
- Servicing clients in fields including medical devices, renewable technology, material science, small molecules, and animal models
- Prosecuted patent applications
EDUCATION
Patent Agent/Atto Since Feb. 2012 Toledo, OH
Juris Doctor, Intellectual Property certificate of concentration with distinction. September 2008 – December 2012
Honors: DeArce Koch Scholarship, U. Toledo Foundation; On Dean’s list from May 2010.
Research projects:
- “FDA Small & Bio Molecule Drug Regulation,” and
- “Isolated Human Genes” Myriad
Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford, CA
Postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering September 2004 – May 2006
Research project: Organic synthesis of conductive polymers coupled with DNA/peptides to gold nanoparticles for single molecular electronic junction
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Rehovot, Israel
Ph.D. in Chemistry June 1997 – August 2002
Honors: Holtzman Prize for Scientific Excellence
Research projects:
- Organic and inorganic synthesis & design of organo-metallic complexes forming semiconductor nanoparticle capacitor structure
- Unraveled anti-malaria drug’s binding site and mechanism of action
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Rehovot, Israel
M.Sc. in Chemistry September 1993 – August 1995
Research project: Organic synthesis & characterization of amphiphiles for chiral recognition at the air-water interface
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel
B.Sc. in Chemistry with concentration in Organic Chemistry and microbiology September 1989 – July 1992
BAR ADMISSIONS
California Attorney Since Jun. 2013
Patent Agent/Attorney Since Feb. 2012
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