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Bradley K. Lortz
Partner

Mr. Lortz has lived in Southern California since beginning an undergraduate engineering program at Loyola Marymount University in 1984. Prior to graduation, he began working at Hughes Space and Communications (HSC) where he spent his entire technical career in the design, development and production of satellites. After completing his law degree at the University of Southern California, while maintaining a working relationship with Hughes as a contract engineer, Mr. Lortz was granted the opportunity to learn patent prosecution in the Hughes Corporate Legal Department. With the subsequent sale of HSC to Boeing, Mr. Lortz continued his practical education in intellectual property and patent prosecution at a small Los Angeles firm where he acquired a solid grounding in the essential processes and strategies for securing and evaluating patent rights. Following this, he established his own practice as a partner with Patent Venture Group out of which Origin Law was founded and later merged with Karen Canady's practice to become canady + lortz LLP.


Education

J.D., 1997, University of Southern California
B.S.M.E., 1989, Loyola Marymount University (Magna Cum Laude)
M.S.M.E. coursework completed, University of California Los Angeles, Manufacturing emphasis

 

Experience

Over ten years of intellectual property law experience emphasizing patent prosecution. Seven years of spacecraft design and development experience on various government and commercial programs.


Technical Emphasis

Aerospace mechanisms and structures, control and communication systems, semiconductor and MEMS devices and fabrication and computer hardware and software.


Registrations

California State Bar
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

District Court for the Central District of California

 

 


Professional Affiliations

Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association

 


Representative Patents 

  • 8,054,092: Corrosion detecting structural health sensor
  • 8,040,243: RFID-based corrosion and moisture detection
  • 7,955,349: Body piercing instrument
  • 7,948,443: Structural feed aperture for space based phased array antennas
  • 7,941,404: Coordinated federated backup of a distributed application environment
  • 7,931,237: Universal launch vehicle payload adapter
  • 7,922,124: Power optimized system for electric propulsion stationkeeping geosynchronous spacecraft
  • 7,917,705: Scalable performance-based volume allocation in large storage controller collections
  • 7,871,042: Hydrogen fueled blended wing body ring tank
  • 7,836,765: Disc resonator integral inertial measurement unit
  • 7,809,915: Handling multi-rank pools and varying degrees of control in volume allocation on storage controllers
  • 7,793,541: Planar resonator gyroscope central die attachment
  • 7,773,205: High-resolution three-dimensional imaging radar
  • 7,765,519: Efficient builds for installation software
  • 7,725,555: Detecting missing elements in a storage area network with multiple sources of information
  • 7,716,433: Dynamically determining and managing a set of target volumes for snapshot operation
  • 7,647,527: Apparatus and method for collecting and displaying data for remote diagnostics
  • 7,644,891: Spacecraft low tumble linear release system
  • 7,633,203: Damping and support in high-temperature superconducting levitation systems
  • 7,633,202: Damping in high-temperature superconducting levitation systems
  • 7,624,494: Method of fabricating a mesoscaled resonator
  • 7,621,193: Fracture detecting structural health sensor
  • 7,617,560: Compact collapsible squeegee
  • 7,581,443: Disc resonator gyroscopes
  • 7,568,352: Thermally coupled liquid oxygen and liquid methane storage vessel
  • 7,547,870: Precision spacecraft payload platforms
  • 7,538,876: Efficient and accurate alignment of stereoscopic displays
  • 7,532,326: Multiple-label fluorescence imaging using excitation-emission matrices
  • 7,524,214: Electrical quick lock interconnect
  • 7,519,871: Plug-in problem relief actuators
  • 7,515,013: Rectangular waveguide cavity launch
  • 7,493,814: Vibratory gyroscope with parasitic mode damping
  • 7,475,358: Alternate progress indicator displays
  • 7,447,868: Using vector processors to accelerate cache lookups
  • 7,437,253: Parametrically disciplined operation of a vibratory gyroscope
  • 7,437,222: Gimbal disturbance calibration and compenstion
  • 7,413,148: Remotely located cryocooler
  • 7,405,814: Frequency multiplexed, multiple channel heterodyne interferometer
  • 7,401,397: Method of producing an inertial sensor
  • 7,396,478: Multiple internal seal ring micro-electro-mechanical system vacuum packaging method
  • 7,395,656: Dual mode hybrid electric thruster
  • 7,347,095: Integral Resonator Gyroscope
  • 7,345,653: Shaped Reflector Reoptimization
  • 7,304,443: Remote Activation of an Automotive Window Washing System
  • 7,285,844: Multiple Internal Seal Right Micro-electro-mechanical System Vacuum Package
  • 7,275,059: Methods and Apparatus For High-Speed Access To and Sharing of Storage Devices On a Networked Digital Data Processing System
  • 7,199,344: Active Camouflage Using Real-Time Spectral Matching
  • 7,170,368: Phase Matching Using a High Thermal Expansion Waveguide
  • 7,168,318: Isolated Planar Mesogyroscope
  • 7,151,876: Optical Resonator
  • 7,136,014: System and Method For Estimating the Azimuth Pointing Angle of a Moving Monopulse Antenna 

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