Thomas J. Krumenacher, Associate
Prior to becoming a registered patent attorney, Thomas was employed at Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley for close to ten years and held a variety of engineering and marketing positions. His work focused on custom controls, power products, programmable logic controllers, and automation systems. Thomas also spent a year at Consolidated Electrical Distributors dba Lappin Electric learning the management and sales aspects of a full service electrical products distributor. Thomas draws upon these prior experiences daily in his practice of law.
While at Marquette University Law School, Thomas was involved with the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review; one year as a member and one year as the Lead Articles Editor. Thomas also was the recipient of the CALI Excellence For The Future Award in his Patent Litigation course. The award is presented to the student who both the Professor and peers select as showing the best achievement in the course. Thomas also clerked for a semester for the Honorable Richard S. Brown of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II. In addition, Thomas was a law clerk here at Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.C. for two years while attending law school.
| Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Unfair Competition, and Patent Litigation. |
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1966. |
| Admitted to Wisconsin Bar, 2004, also admitted to practice before U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin. Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering, B.S. E.E.T., with honors, 1990; M.S.E.M., 1998; Marquette University, J.D., cum laude, 2004. |
| Intellectual Property Law Review, Member, 2002-2003; Lead Articles Editor, 2003-2004; State Bar of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Intellectual Property Law Association, Waukesha County Bar Association, American Bar Association. Author: “Protection for Indigenous Peoples and Their Traditional Knowledge: Would a Registry System Reduce the Misappropriation of Traditional Knowledge?", 8 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 143 (2004). |
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