Greg Evans is an experienced patent agent with an extensive industry background in electrical engineering. Greg’s unique combination of intellectual property experience and technical background (including being an inventor on ninety-plus patents) allows Greg to efficiently connect with a client, understand their invention, and give recommendations for meeting their intellectual property goals.
Greg’s practice primarily focuses on drafting and prosecuting patent applications in electronics, semiconductors, RF and optical wireless communication, computer hardware and software, power conversion, solar technologies, wind turbines, battery systems, associated green technologies, and mechanical innovations.
Additionally, Greg’s experience includes patent applications involving the training, implementation, and application of neural networks, large-language models (LLMs), machine learning, and other quickly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, along with the underlying hardware and software that allow these technologies to scale.
Greg further supports his clients with patent strategies, disclosure analysis, valuation, invalidity and infringement analysis, and litigation/licensing support.
Before becoming a patent agent, Greg spent twenty years managing new product development and government-funded research for military, telecommunications, and consumer products/systems. Greg began his career with ITT Telecom in fiber optic system development. Greg has held various R&D positions, including principal engineer, hardware manager, engineering director, CTO, and principal scientist for such companies as Broadband Technologies (founder through going public), ECI Telecom, MCNC, and Research Triangle Institute (RTI).
Greg is also a licensed professional engineer in the state of North Carolina. As needed, Greg conducts electronic circuit analyses for investigative research, consults on fire investigations, and provides A/V engineering support for small venues. Greg is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is one of the manuscript reviewers for the “Journal of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.”
- North Carolina State University, BS Electrical Engineering
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member
- Journal of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Manuscript Reviewer
- Secured design patents for an EV technology company covering charging station enclosures and GUI elements critical to the consumer experience.
- Assisted a semiconductor company with building a significant patent portfolio covering numerous innovations in free-space-optical (FSO) communications.
- Assisted a green energy company with building a significant patent portfolio covering numerous innovations in electric vehicle (EV) charging systems.
- Assisted a technology company in obtaining numerous patents related to managing and optimizing mobile traffic for wireless carriers.
- Assisted a product-based company specializing in large uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems in obtaining numerous patents related to battery backup and battery monitoring.
- Assisted a product-based company specializing in camera-based quality control systems in obtaining numerous issued patents related to automated inspection of manufacturing processes.
- Assisted a product-based company specializing in automated cleaning systems in obtaining multiple patents related to automated ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection for industrial facilities.
- Assisted a green energy company in obtaining multiple patents relating to environmental monitoring for large cold storage facilities.
- Assisted a research-based company in obtaining multiple patents related to precision global positioning systems.
- Assisted a large international company in obtaining multiple patents related to machine sensor technologies.
- Assisted a software company in obtaining multiple patents for medical diagnostics relating to dementia.
- Assisted a start-up company in obtaining multiple patents for medical imaging processing and storage.
- Assisted a start-up company in obtaining multiple patents related to kiosks for automated check-in.
- Assisted an inventor in obtaining multiple patents for hardware-based cloud security.
- Assisted an inventor in obtaining multiple patents for improved user interfaces.
- Assisted multiple research-based universities in continuing to build their patent portfolios in technologies related to electrical engineering, including semiconductor, medical diagnostics, innovative displays, linear accelerators, and clean energy technologies.
- Assisted multiple foreign agents on obtaining US patents for their international clients.
- Successfully appealed multiple patent applications before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
- United States Patent & Trademark Office