Karuna Ojanen
Associate Attorney
Patent Agent
612-455-3836
kojanen@hsml.com

Education
New Mexico State University
    B.S., Physics, 1978
University of New Mexico School of Law
    J.D., 1985
        Lead Articles Editor, Natural Resources Journal
Yoga Research and Education Center, 2002
    YREC Yoga Teacher 700 hours; IAYT RYT 500 hours.

 
Bar Admissions
State of Minnesota, 1996
U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1986
State of New Mexico (Inactive), 1985

Relevant Experience
More than twenty years as patent attorney. Twelve years in private practice including eight years with the IBM Virtual Law Firm; over three years as in-house patent counsel with IBM Rochester; over five years as patent attorney with U.S. Department of Energy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Negotiated intellectual property rights and Technology Transfer agreements with U.S. government laboratories, including Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Development of hardware and software of optoelectronic shock physics measurement systems. Biochemical research: vaccine development, protein polysaccharide reactions; statistical analysis of cell morphology, purification and characterization of proteins, optical studies of bioactive compounds, isolation of and testing of macrophage. Open-hole oil well logging.

Practice Areas
Has written over 200 patents in subject matter involving computer software including enterprise software, systems, and services, information technology, computer hardware and architecture, semiconductor product design environments circuit technology, optical devices, mechanical systems, biochemical, digital signal processing, synthetic aperture radar, high energy physics, semiconductor optical and electronic devices, fabrication and processing, lasers. Copyrights, art and entertainment law.

• Intellectual Property Considerations for Computer Software; 17 Barrister 49-51 (Iwo. 1, Spring 1990).
• Patenting Computer Software; Guest Lecturer, Computer Law Class, University of New Mexico, 1988, 1991.
• Ethical Considerations of Patenting Biotechnology; New Mexico Network of Women in Science and Technology, 1987.
• Note, Preemption-Atomic Energy; Pacific Gas and Electric v. State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, 24 NAT. RES. J. 761 (1984).

Professional Affiliations
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Minnesota State Bar Association
State Bar of New Mexico