Strategic patent counsel and team player

Tom Krumenacher advises clients on U.S. and foreign patents. He has extensive experience preparing, prosecuting and evaluating patents for electromechanical, electrical, mechanical and software inventions. The technologies with which Tom has worked include:

• Machine vision systems, methods and related software control algorithms
• Lift truck systems and related controls
• LED lighting for OEM and aftermarket applications
• Printing equipment, including web-based and hand-held printers and related software control algorithms
• Neurostimulation systems, methods and software controls for a variety of therapeutic treatments, including implantable and non-implantable systems
• Industrial automation controls
• Pneumatic valves and pneumatic systems
• Medical benefits software
• Microfiche viewers and associated software
• Video projector systems and related controls
• Aircraft wing configurations
• Water treatment systems and methods
• Modular rock-climbing walls and related accessories
• Woodworking equipment and tools
• Consumer goods

Tom collaborates closely with clients, acting as a member of their intellectual property (IP) team and working to get a precise understanding of how they drive business growth and value through their patent and other IP assets. With this in mind, he develops patent filing, defense and management strategies to align with a client’s business goals.

Tom is the Milwaukee and Minneapolis office chair for the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2004)
  • Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, lead articles editor
  • Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, member
  • Intellectual Property Law Society, member
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award, recipient for highest score in Patent Litigation

• Milwaukee School of Engineering (M.S.E.M., with honors, 1998)

• Milwaukee School of Engineering (B.S.E.T.E., 1990)
  • With honors

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2016)

• Waukesha County Technical College (A.A.S.E.T., 1987)

• “Patent Law Basics and Patent Reform”