Wesley L. Strickland

Associate, Stockwell & Smedley, PSC
Of Counsel, Stevens and Showalter, LLP

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Professional Experience

Wesley L. Strickland is an associate at Stockwell & Smedley, PSC, in Lexington, Kentucky, and is of counsel to Stevens and Showalter, LLP. Wes concentrates his practice on patent matters. He has substantial experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in technologies such as networking hardware, cryptography, storage area networks, software applications, CDMA communications networks, speech recognition, and RFID tags and readers. He also has experience in preparing reexamination requests and providing patentability, infringement, clearance and validity analyses and opinions. Prior to working as a patent attorney, he was an engineer in the United States Air Force and a network and system administrator for various companies.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1989
• J.D., University of Wyoming, College of Law, 1995

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1998
• District of Columbia, 2002
• Kentucky, 2008
• Registered to Practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Professional Associations

• Kentucky State Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Association for Computing Machinery