Chad A. Kamler provides clients – ranging from individual inventors to Fortune 100 companies – a combination of intellectual property law expertise and technical knowledge developed from his hands-on engineering experience. He prepares and prosecutes U.S. and foreign patent applications in a variety of technical fields, including:

• Image processing
• Artificial intelligence/machine learning
• Materials formation and characterization
• Semiconductors
• Photovoltaic, magnetic, and piezoelectric materials
• Quantum devices
• Medical devices
• Renewable energy systems
• Aerospace
• Wearable computing devices
• Signal processing
• Software
• Home audio systems
• Robotics
• Power systems
• Automotive technologies
• Fire suppression systems
• Building materials and methods
• Telecommunication
• Shape memory alloys

In addition to helping clients prosecute patents and manage intellectual property portfolios, Mr. Kamler prepares validity, infringement, and patentability analyses to guide his clients’ business decisions.

Prior to joining MBHB, Mr. Kamler served as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied thin film photovoltaic materials deposited in high-vacuum environments. Mr. Kamler was also a systems engineer at Continental Fire Sprinkler Company where he used drafting and hydraulic calculation software to design fire sprinkler systems that met customer and regulatory requirements.

Outside of work, Mr. Kamler is a devoted, albeit suffering, Nebraska Cornhuskers fan and loyal supporter of his children’s sports teams.

• Prepared and prosecuted U.S. patent applications for a Fortune 100 aerospace company.
• Prepared and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications and managed patent portfolios directed to medical devices, image processing, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and renewable energy systems for a tier I research university.
• Prepared and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications and managed patent portfolios for a medical device startup company.
• Prepared and prosecuted U.S. patent applications directed to semiconductors and materials formation and characterization for an international research and development organization.
• Prepared and prosecuted U.S. patent applications directed to image and/or audio processing for a globally recognized marketing research firm.

• Order of the Coif
• Nebraska Law Review, Executive Editor
• CALI Awards in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Accounting for Lawyers
• McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Excellence in Legal Writing Award

C.A. Kamler, R.J. Soukup, N.J. Ianno, J.L. Huguenin-Love, J. Olejnicek, S.A. Darveau, C.L. Exstrom, “Thin Films Formed by Selenization of CuIn_xB_1-x Precursors in Se Vapor,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 93, 45-50 (2008).

J. Olejnicek, C.A. Kamler, S.A. Darveau, C.L. Exstrom, L.E. Slaymaker, A.R. Vandeventer, N.J. Ianno, R.J. Soukup, “Formation of CuIn_1-x Al_xSe2 thin films studied by Raman scattering,” Thin Solid Films 519 (2011) 5329-5334.

J. Olejnicek, C.A. Kamler, A. Mirasano, A.L. Martinez-Skinner, M.A. Ingersoll, C.L. Exstrom, S.A. Darveau, J.L. Huguenin-Love, M. Diaz, N.J. Ianno, R.J. Soukup, “A non-Vacuum Process for Preparing Nanocrystalline CuIn_1-xGa_xSe₂ Materials Involving an Open-air Solvothermal Reaction,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94, 8-11 (2010).

R.J. Soukup, P. Prabukanthan, N.J. Ianno, A. Sarkar, C.A. Kamler, and D.G. Sekora, “Formation of Pyrite (FeS₂) Thin Films by Thermal Sulfurization of DC Magnetron Sputtered Iron,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 29, No. 1, (2011).

C.A. Zuhlke, D.R. Alexander, John C. Bruce III, N.J. Ianno, C.A. Kamler, and W. Yang, “Self Assembled Nanoparticle Aggregates from Line Focused Femtosecond Laser Ablation,” Optics Express 18, 4329-4339 (2010).

J. Olejnicek, S.A. Darveau, C.L. Exstrom, R.J. Soukup, N.J. Ianno, C.A. Kamler and J.L. Huguenin-Love, “Problems with synthesis of chalcopyrite CuIn_1-xB_xSe₂,” Materials Science Forum 609, 33-36 (2009).