Contact Mark R. Myers
Phone: 860-838-8748
Mark is an intellectual property attorney licensed in Connecticut and New York. For over a decade, he has served as counsel to small and medium size technology companies providing patent, trademark and copyright prosecution and portfolio development together with contract negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganization, and business strategy services.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Dr. Myers served as Vice President, Research & Advisory Services at NERAC, Inc., an intellectual property and business competitive intelligence consultancy firm based in Connecticut. Before joining NERAC, Mark was a business development manager for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), leading product and technology merger and acquisition strategy and due diligence teams. Mark was part of the post-acquisition integration team following UTC’s acquisition of Chubb Ltd. in 2004 and joined the newly formed UTC Fire & Security Business Development and Strategy group to lead technology acquisition strategy efforts. Before joining UTC Fire and Security, Mark was the Technical Fellow for Dynamics and Controls at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), a Group Leader in UTRC’s Systems Engineering Department and software engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Myers holds a doctorate degree from Cornell University in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, emphasizing dynamics and control. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California.
Education
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (Minor, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics), Cornell University
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
B.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Admissions
Connecticut
New York
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
U.S. District Court, Northern District Of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Publications and Speaking Engagements
Guckenheimer, J., Myers, M. and B. Sturmfels, ‘Computing Hopf Bifurcations I’, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 1, February 1997, pps. 1-21.
Guckenheimer, J. and M. Myers, ‘Computing Hopf Bifurcations II: Three Examples from Neurophysiology,’ SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol. 17, September, 1996.
Gysling, D.L. and M. Myers, ‘A Framework for Analyzing the Dynamics of Flexibly-Bladed Turbomachines,’ Presented at the ASME Turbo Expo Congress, Birmingham, UK, June 1996.
Myers, M., Holmes, P., Berkooz, G. and J. Elezaray, ‘Wavelet Projections of the Kuramoto-Shivashinsky Equation I: Heteroclinic Cycles and Modulated Traveling Waves for Short Systems,’ Physica D, Vol. 86, 1995, pp. 396.
Back., A., Guckenheimer, J., Myers, M. , Wicklin, F. and P. Worfolk, ‘dstool: Computer Assisted Exploration of Dynamical Systems,’ AMS Notices, April 1992, pps. 303-309. Diehl, R.,
Belbruno, E., Bender, D.F., Myers, M. and D.S. Stetson, ‘Low Launch-Energy Trajectories to the Outer Solar System Via Venus and Earth Gravity Assist Flybys,’ AAS Paper 87-419, Presented at the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Kalispell, Montana, August 1987.
Miller, S.L., Bender, D., Stetson, D. and M. Myers, ‘Trajectory Options for the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission,’ AIAA Paper 87-0641, Presented at the IAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, January 1987.
Book Chapters
Back, A., Guckenheimer, J. and M. Myers, ‘A Dynamical Simulation Facility for Hybrid Systems,’ Hybrid Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 736, Edited by R.L. Grossman, et al., Springer-Verlag, 1993.
Myers, M. and D.S. Stetson, ‘Interplanetary Trajectory Design for the Mariner Mark II Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby Mission,’ Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Edited by B. Kaufman, Vol. 58, Part II, 1985.
Selected Seminars and Presentations
Invited Speaker, “May It Please the Court: The Use of Mathematical Reasoning in the Courtroom,” Fall 2011 Speaker Series in Mathematical Education, University of Connecticut Department of Mathematics, November 16, 2011.
Invited Speaker, “Beyond Mere Invention: Lawyering and the Creation of Wealth from Intellectual Property”, IP Seminar, University of Connecticut School of Law, October 15, 2010.
Organizer, Valuation of Intellectual Property, Nerac Industry Roundtable Series (Palo Alto, CA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, England), May 2009.
Invited Speaker, “Assessing the Vulnerability of Electronic Security Systems,” Briefing at the Information & Decision Analysis Systems Engineering Workshop, Stanford University, 2004.
