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Erik Vieira '97

Erik Vieira is Patent Counsel and Owner at Vieira and Associates, which offers patent portfolio and prototyping services based in La Jolla. Mr. Vieira has a Physics B.S. from the University of California at San Diego and worked as an Electrical Engineer for many years designing satellite communication systems (Radio Frequency Design Engineer) before going to law school and has been drafting patent applications for 16 years in a wide variety of advanced technologies, including computing devices, software, wireless, nanotechnology, and energy storage.  Mr. Vieira also supports many student startup companies, both domestic and internationally to procure a key business asset of a patent.