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Mr. Kitchura is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a registered Patent Agent. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2006 from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is presently attending Suffolk University Law School, where he is a 2011 J.D. candidate.

As a law student, Mr. Kitchura has studied various topics in Intellectual Property Law, including Patent Law and Licensing of Intellectual Property. In addition to his legal studies, Mr. Kitchura earned an Honorable Mention for his Legal Brief in the First Year Legal Practice Program at Suffolk University Law School.

While a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Mr. Kitchura designed physical implementations of various CMOS logic circuits, which were fabricated by the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service (MOSIS) at the University of Southern California. In addition, Mr. Kitchura was a member of a Multidisciplinary Senior Design Team, which designed and built electronic testing equipment for BorgWarner Inc.

Prior to joining Mills & Onello LLP, Mr. Kitchura worked as an electrical engineer in the Research and Development division at Bose Corporation, an international consumer electronics corporation. While at Bose, he conducted research on resonant amplification circuits and non-contact methods of temperature sensing using variable permeability materials. As an electrical engineer, Mr. Kitchura also designed, built, and tested high-power amplifiers, embedded processing systems, software control algorithms, and haptic devices. As a result of his work, Mr. Kitchura is a named inventor to a United States Patent Application.

Since joining Mills & Onello LLP, Mr. Kitchura has been involved in the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications. Mr. Kitchura has experience in drafting U.S. and foreign patent applications, preparing responses to office actions, and preparing pre-appeal and appeal briefs. In addition, Mr. Kitchura assists clients in developing and implementing patent prosecution strategies to protect core technologies. His areas of technical concentration include semiconductor devices, semiconductor fabrication, digital and analog circuits, embedded hardware and software, analog power amplification, internet technologies, social media networking, graphical user interfaces, haptic devices and technology, medical devices and mechanical devices and systems.

Mr. Kitchura is also a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).