Carlos R. Villamar is a Partner at Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole.

Areas of Practice:
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licensing.
Mr. Villamar is a patent attorney with broad experience assisting clients with foreign and domestic patent application preparation and prosecution, opinion work, litigation, and IP counseling. Mr. Villamar's expertise covers a wide variety of technologies, including wired, wireless, optical, terrestrial broadcast and satellite communications, neural networks, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, encryption, digital signal processing, speech recognition and language understanding, sound and image processing, video processing, medical imaging, video games, on-line gaming, gaming engines, physics engines, 3D graphics, virtual worlds, Digital Rights Management, e-commerce, military technologies, radar, sonar, fighter aircraft, missiles, ground guidance, heads-up displays, computers and architectures, computer networks and security, semiconductors, device manufacturing, nanotechnology, oil and gas exploration, renewable energy, electrical, solar, thermal and wind power, automotive technologies, and electromechanical technologies.

Prior to joining Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, Mr. Villamar gained extensive experience in numerous aspects of intellectual property law as an attorney in large, national general practice and IP boutique law firms and as a patent examiner in the Speech Signal Processing Group of the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.

As an electrical engineer, Mr. Villamar has over nine years of commercial experience, including production design and testing for the Standard Missile Program at the General Dynamics Corporation Missile Systems Group, high-speed digital logic and computer design for the Advanced Tactical Fighter Program at the Hughes Aircraft Company Radar Systems Group, and IR&D and design of high-speed digital signal processing and communications systems at the
Hughes Aircraft Company Advanced Circuits Technology Center.

Education:
J.D., The George Washington University Law School (1998); M.S.E.E., California State University, Long Beach, (1992); and B.S.E.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, (1987).

Admitted:
Virginia, the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Virginia Supreme Court, and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Publications:
Real IP in a virtual world: IP issues arising out of virtual characters and scenes in online video games," Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law, International Bar Association Annual Conference, Singapore (2007); "Missing the boat on IP protection," Tech Valley Times, Issue 34 (February 2006); "Legal Issues With Respect To Video Gaming Technologies," Federal Circuit Association Bench and Bar Conference (June 2005); Tadayon and Villamar, "Business Methods Patent Prosecution and Strategies," Business Methods Partnership Meeting (May 2005); and Chit-Sang and Villamar, "Performance of a Backpropagation Neural Network in Diagnostic Rhyme Test Word Recognition," The Society for Computer Simulation International, Vol. 70, No. 3 (March 1998 and Master's Thesis 1992).

Carlos R. Villamar may be reached by email at cvillamar@rmsclaw.com or by telephone at (703) 584-3267.