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  • Private: John M. Schafer Richard A. Machonkin
  • Spring 2012 (snippets)
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About the Authors

Private: John M. Schafer

Richard A. Machonkin

Richard A. Machonkin is Chair of MBHB’s Telecommunications Practice Group and the firm’s Education Committee. Clients in the optical technology, mechanical and diagnostics industries seek his counsel as they work to build their patent portfolios. His patent prosecution experience includes numerous successful appeals to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences).  
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