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René A. Vazquez

René Vazquez is the founder of Sinergia Technology Law Group. René has over twenty years of experience advising clients on intellectual property matters, particularly in the areas of patent prosecution, patent licensing, post grant proceedings, and patent litigation. René has represented clients in a broad spectrum of technological fields, including computer software, cloud-based systems for detecting cyber threats, cloud-based context aware intrusion detection systems, computer networking systems and devices, authentication and encryption systems, flow-based systems for detection of cyber-attacks, secure quantum communication systems, telecommunications, optical communication systems, information distribution systems for digital networks, video-on-demand systems, semiconductor fabrication, medical devices, physiological simulation devices, bioreactor systems, electro-optics, imaging systems, fiber optics, liquid crystal displays, micro-electro-mechanical devices, fuel cells, neural networks and others. René also has extensive experience assisting early stage/start-up companies in the development of their intellectual property portfolios and in the formulation of strategies for leveraging intellectual property assets. Prior to starting his legal career, René accumulated seven years of industry experience in nonlinear optics, including material studies of photorefractive, organic and Kerr nonlinear media, while employed as a Senior Technical Associate at Rockwell International Science Center (now Teledyne Scientific and Imaging). During an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, René developed computer codes for plasma simulations. He is also a co-inventor of a patented system for achieving polarization independent energy exchange between optical beams (U.S. Patent No. 5,170,268), and is the co-author of five peer reviewed scientific articles in the area of nonlinear optics. René attended the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1982 to 1983, and graduated in 1986 from Millsaps College in Jackson, MS with a B.S. in Physics. In 1995, René earned his J.D. from Whittier College School of Law. While in law school, René served as Lead Articles Editor for the Whittier Law Review.