Noel C. Gillespie

Noel Gillespie is the chair of Procopio’s Wireless Health Care and Medical Device Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Clean Tech, Energy and Climate Change Practice Group. Mr. Gillespie regularly assists clients with strategic patent portfolio development and implementation so as to protect their technology and help them achieve their business objectives. This process includes developing claim strategies that create market barriers and protect or create revenue streams, as well as preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign Patent Applications. Mr. Gillespie has extensive experience in dealing with telecommunications companies, including those involved with wireless, wired, and optical communications technology, medical device companies, semiconductor companies and software/Internet companies. For example, Mr. Gillespie has helped clients build portfolios and protect or build market positions in the areas of wireless sensors for health applications, smart grids, semiconductor memories, lab and chip technology and energy efficient data storage.

In addition to his extensive legal experience, Mr. Gillespie has also served as Senior Design Engineer and Product Team leader for Sony Digital Telecommunications of America in San Diego, where he was responsible for the comprehensive baseband design for several CDMA handsets that used the latest Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets. He received extensive training in CDMA and wireless communication technology and his design responsibilities fell under the areas of microprocessor circuits, audio circuits, power management circuits, and user interfaces such as keypads and LCDs. Prior to this, he was a Design Engineer and Product Team Leader at Cubic Defense Systems in San Diego, where he was responsible for the design and testing of several portable electronic systems. Mr. Gillespie successfully managed a team of engineers in the completion of Cubic’s Manworn Laser Detection System, which was part of the MILES 2000 product line, an optical communication system. Mr. Gillespie’s design responsibilities on the product included the areas of optical communications, ASICs, microprocessor circuits, user interfaces, and power management.

Mr. Gillespie received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Mr. Gillespie is a member of the California State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Mr. Gillespie is a co-chair of the Biocom Medical Device Group and a co-chair of the CommNexus Wireless Healthcare SIG. He also serves as the liaison to the Clean Tech sub group of the ACC-SD, which is sponsored by Procopio. Additionally, Mr. Gillespie regularly volunteers at the San Diego Volunteer Law Program’s HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic.

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Semi-finalist for The Daily Transcript’s Top Attorneys in the category of IP Transactional, 2009 and 2010

Sherwin, Doug. "Gillespie joins Procopio's IP team," San Diego Daily Transcript, March 18, 2009