PROFESSIONALS WITH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Sukovic Law is a composite organization made up of intellectual property attorneys and contract professionals. This structure provides us the flexibility to handle small to large projects. The firm is lead by Milena Sukovic with credentials and experience from working at two different large Intellectual Property boutique law firms for over seven years, and from working as an in-house telecommunications engineer at Motorola where she took it upon herself to drive a 3x increase in innovation from the system design group. She understands how technology, business, and law meet to provide success. She leads her team to provide efficient solutions to intellectual property needs.
Milena Sukovic, Esq.
milena@sukoviclaw.com
312 285-6905
Attorney at Law
United States Patent Attorney
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Boston University
Juris Doctor (JD), The John Marshall law School
Legum Magister (LLM) degree in Intellectual Property (IP) Law, magna cum laude, The John Marshall law School
Admissions:
Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Milena has counseled clients on global patent protection. Clients have ranged from start-ups to large Fortune 100 clients.
For clients developing electrical/mechanical and/or software products in a wide variety of applications, Milena Sukovic secures patent protections in the United States and abroad (e.g., Japan, China, UK, Germany, EPO, etc.) Clients find her highly trained and fluent in the area of software patent law and intellectual property law, benefiting from both her education in electrical/communications engineering and her advanced legal Masters of Laws (L.L.M.) training in intellectual property. They also rely on her insights on commercialization of the technologies, grounded in her much published work as communications systems engineer in-house for Motorola. Ms. Sukovic represents her clients’ interests with insight, intelligence and intensity, qualities demonstrated in her many school and professional achievements. With incessant drive, she finds new solutions to problems her clients face in protecting their inventions.
Milena is experienced at prosecuting diversified technologies which include: computer software, telecommunications, network architectures, e-commerce applications, food technology, vacuum products, financial services, and oil refinery process plant technologies.
RECENT WORK
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Ms. Sukovic has successfully handled patent prosecutions and reexamination arguments in a wide variety of software and systems applications, including:
BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS
In her patent prosecutions for software applications, Ms. Sukovic brings substantial experience and familiarity with both the technologies and the law. Her work has ranged from core computing and electro-mechanical technologies to leading edge software applications in fields that range from seed technologies to financial products. She directly handles the prosecutions in the United States and instructs foreign counsel in Japan, China, Germany, and other countries.
Prior to starting the firm, she was a patent prosecution attorney for over seven years at two different intellectual property boutique firms. Before working as an attorney, Ms. Sukovic served as a systems engineer for Motorola Inc. where she developed system requirements, test plans, managed engineering development, and wrote technical requirement specifications for a proprietary communication system. Prior to her professional engineering work, she attained her BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.
PUBLICATIONS
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Ms. Sukovic volunteers in her community to support public education in the sciences, especially for children and minorities by having contributed her efforts as a member of the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and most recently as a member of the University of Chicago Lab school Connections committee.
Ms. Sukovic is also involved professionally in advising others of new developments in the laws, most recently contributing to a presentation on the procedural patent rules, for use by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and organized by the Richard Linn American Inn of Court.
Ms. Sukovic has received the 2014 Techweek Chicago Women's Leadership Fellow Award for her professional and community work.
Military and Government Service
U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) while attending Boston University Electrical Engineering BS undergraduate program
EDUCATION
The John Marshall Law School, LLM in Intellectual Property Law
Order of Marshall, with highest honors
The John Marshall Law School, JD
Dean's List, Review of Intellectual Property Law, Michael Duric scholarship
Boston University, BS in Electrical Engineering
AFROTC scholarship, John Silber Engineering scholarship
LANGUAGES
Besides English, Ms. Sukovic is fluent in the common Slavic language that is spoken in the East European countries of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. She is also conversant in French.
Milena Sukovic, Esq.
milena@sukoviclaw.com
312 285-6905
Attorney at Law
United States Patent Attorney
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Boston University
Juris Doctor (JD), The John Marshall law School
Legum Magister (LLM) degree in Intellectual Property (IP) Law, magna cum laude, The John Marshall law School
Admissions:
Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Milena has counseled clients on global patent protection. Clients have ranged from start-ups to large Fortune 100 clients.
For clients developing electrical/mechanical and/or software products in a wide variety of applications, Milena Sukovic secures patent protections in the United States and abroad (e.g., Japan, China, UK, Germany, EPO, etc.) Clients find her highly trained and fluent in the area of software patent law and intellectual property law, benefiting from both her education in electrical/communications engineering and her advanced legal Masters of Laws (L.L.M.) training in intellectual property. They also rely on her insights on commercialization of the technologies, grounded in her much published work as communications systems engineer in-house for Motorola. Ms. Sukovic represents her clients’ interests with insight, intelligence and intensity, qualities demonstrated in her many school and professional achievements. With incessant drive, she finds new solutions to problems her clients face in protecting their inventions.
Milena is experienced at prosecuting diversified technologies which include: computer software, telecommunications, network architectures, e-commerce applications, food technology, vacuum products, financial services, and oil refinery process plant technologies.
RECENT WORK
- Successfully argued for patent protection in U.S., Japan, Germany and China of control system technologies for oil refinery process plants.
- Started US patent portfolio for Nordic company in area of software/network architecture/protocols
- Counseled a hedge fund investment company on the marketplace landscape of patented financial technologies for use in their contract negotiations and their patent portfolio strategy.
- Argued newly found references against a widely asserted software patent for reexamination.
- Successfully argued against new Bilski rejections for a leading global software company.
- Achieved stronger protection of clients’ patent applications through experienced patent claim drafting.
- Submitted patent applications under the latest US Green Technology Pilot Program.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Ms. Sukovic has successfully handled patent prosecutions and reexamination arguments in a wide variety of software and systems applications, including:
- Cloud computing technologies
- Oil refinery process plant systems
- User-Interface/Display technologies
- Valve controls
- Computer software products
- Finance systems/products/instruments
- Telecommunications
- Mobile communications protocols (CDMA/TDMA/IEEE 802.11 wireless, mesh networking)
- Network architectures
- E-commerce applications
- Semiconductors/fabrication
- Printing devices
- Mechanical devices
- Control systems
- Computer systems
- Mechanical/electrical/software testing methods
- Digital recording technologies
BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS
In her patent prosecutions for software applications, Ms. Sukovic brings substantial experience and familiarity with both the technologies and the law. Her work has ranged from core computing and electro-mechanical technologies to leading edge software applications in fields that range from seed technologies to financial products. She directly handles the prosecutions in the United States and instructs foreign counsel in Japan, China, Germany, and other countries.
Prior to starting the firm, she was a patent prosecution attorney for over seven years at two different intellectual property boutique firms. Before working as an attorney, Ms. Sukovic served as a systems engineer for Motorola Inc. where she developed system requirements, test plans, managed engineering development, and wrote technical requirement specifications for a proprietary communication system. Prior to her professional engineering work, she attained her BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.
PUBLICATIONS
- Ms. Sukovic presented the recently developed Local Patent rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of llinois (see http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/home/_assets/_documents/Rules/localpatentrules-preamble.pdf) at the Richard Linn Inn of Court.
- Her views on patent law practice in 2010 were summarized at http://h20cooler.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/qa-with-milena-sukovic/ Chicago Lawyer’s blog outpost, September 27, 2010.
- Milena Sukovic, Rob Biggs, George Liburd, Simplex Mobile Transmitter Roaming Indication, Motorola Technical Developments, Vol. 36, Sept. 1998, at 139.
- Milena Sukovic, Jim Edkins, Fingerprint Identification for Selection of Alias ID in Subscriber Units, 37, Motorola Technical Developments, Vol. 37, Jan. 1999, at 173.
- Milena Sukovic, Hans Sowa, Method to Patch a Non-Secure Radio to a Secure Radio and Maintain Security, Motorola Technical Developments, Vol. 38, June 1999, at 92.
- Jim Edkins, Milena Sukovic, Maher Hasan, Mode Determination for Talkgroup Services, Motorola Technical Developments, Vol. 38, June 1999, at 244
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Ms. Sukovic volunteers in her community to support public education in the sciences, especially for children and minorities by having contributed her efforts as a member of the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and most recently as a member of the University of Chicago Lab school Connections committee.
Ms. Sukovic is also involved professionally in advising others of new developments in the laws, most recently contributing to a presentation on the procedural patent rules, for use by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and organized by the Richard Linn American Inn of Court.
Ms. Sukovic has received the 2014 Techweek Chicago Women's Leadership Fellow Award for her professional and community work.
Military and Government Service
U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) while attending Boston University Electrical Engineering BS undergraduate program
EDUCATION
The John Marshall Law School, LLM in Intellectual Property Law
Order of Marshall, with highest honors
The John Marshall Law School, JD
Dean's List, Review of Intellectual Property Law, Michael Duric scholarship
Boston University, BS in Electrical Engineering
AFROTC scholarship, John Silber Engineering scholarship
LANGUAGES
Besides English, Ms. Sukovic is fluent in the common Slavic language that is spoken in the East European countries of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. She is also conversant in French.
