Education
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2005
Rochester Institute of Technology, B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Concentration), 1997
Biography
Mr. Torrente joined Ostrolenk in July of 2006. His practice includes crafting, securing and defending intellectual property rights. He has prepared and prosecuted patent applications before the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, and has appeared before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. He has advised and represented clients in litigation involving patent and trademark issues at the trial and appellate levels.
Before entering the field of intellectual property, Mr. Torrente was an Applications Engineer with Vickers-Warnick, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., from 1997-1999. There he gained invaluable practical experience in the field of industrial automation, including PLC’s and sensors, electric and pneumatic motion control, and machine vision. He then served as a Patent Examiner with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1999-2001, examining patents relating to power plants, particularly gas turbines and jet propulsion, pumps, expansible chamber motors and fluid diffusing nozzles. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in patent cases since 2001, he entered private practice that year as a Patent Agent with the firm of Scully, Scott, Murphy and Presser, PC, Garden City, NY. There his experience expanded to include medical devices, image processing, cellular communications, and autonomous computer-based aircraft command and control, among other diverse mechanical and electro-mechanical technologies.
Admissions
New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern & Eastern Districts of New York
Professional Affiliations
Member, New York Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Skills
Conversant in American Sign Language (ASL)
Private Pilot
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