Colin Wier
About Colin Wier
I am a licensed Ohio attorney practicing primarily in the field of Intellectual Property. I am also a licensed Patent attorney. I have direct experience with legal matters related to IP matters (including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets), product development (including market research, freedom to operate opinions, due diligence investigations, and innovation matters related thereto), open source software (both clearing open source for use, scanning technologies related thereto, and providing software to open source projects), training, contracts (including contract drafting, management, and negotiations), data (including data residency concerns, private data concerns, and general data compliance), and cloud (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS). My technological background is in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have technical experience with the following: Electrical Engineering - Including digital and analog circuitry, circuit fabrication, circuit design, power generation systems, medical devices, and general circuit based control systems. Software - Including 2D, 3D, and 4D reservoir simulation, production modeling and simulation, database-related applications, mobile-device related software, distributed software systems, cloud software, consumer software, hardware platform specific software, database operations, and control system software. Telecommunications - Including MIMO based telecommunication systems . Computing System Hardware - Including standard computer architecture systems as well as NUMA systems, multi-node systems (BlueGene and RoadRunner type systems), hybrid architecture systems, microprocessor design, and specialized microprocessor architecture. Specialties: Data, Cloud, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Contracts