G. Marlin Knight

Marlin is admitted to the California Bar and is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He has over 15 years experience in intellectual property law and currently specializes in patent drafting and prosecution in technology related areas. The subject matter areas of his practice include a variety of disk drive related technologies such as thin film materials science, error correction methods, read heads and write heads. Other fields in which he has written patents include database and compiler software and radio-frequency identification and tracking.

Before going into private practice in 2000, he worked as an in-house attorney for IBM in various subject matter areas, including disk drives and computer software. He also worked in a technical capacity for IBM in China and Japan for several years. Marlin graduated from Vanderbilt School of Law in 1976 and has undergraduate degrees from the University of Tennessee (with highest honors) and the University of North Florida in mathematics with a specialty in computer science. After graduating from law school, Marlin served as an FBI Special Agent for three years.

Samples of patents Marlin has written and prosecuted are listed below. For more information on any of them, please click on the appropriate link.

• 6,614,519 Surface inspection tool using a parabolic mirror
  
• 6,567,236 Antiferromagnetically coupled thin films for magnetic recording
  
• 6,513,227 Method for measuring fine structure dimensions during manufacturing of magnetic transducers
  
• 6,357,030 ECC block format for storage device
  
• 6,246,553 Shielded magnetoresistive head with charge clamp
  
• 6,621,081 Method of pole tip sample preparation using FIB
  
• 5,854,754 Scheduling computerized backup services
  
• 5,421,003 Disk storage system with fault tolerant media maintenance
  
• 5,375,239 Use of build status indicators in connection with building of complex computer programs from source code parts
  
• 5,155,678 Data availability in restartable data base system
  
• 5,212,791 Dynamic scheduling
  

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