Bryan Santarelli is an AV® rated registered patent attorney and Partner of FisherBroyles, LLP. Bryan has an active intellectual property practice focusing on domestic and foreign representation in computer, electrical, electronic, semiconductor, software, wireless/cellular, and mechanical patent matters, in trademark matters, in licensing matters, in due-diligence matters, in tax and business matters, and in trust and estate matters (planning, probate, administration). His patent work includes analog and digital circuits, 3D printers, analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) converters, antennas, audio electronics, defibrillators, disk drives, FPGAs, microprocessors, memories (e.g., DRAM, EPROM, EEPROM, ferro-magnetic, RAM, and SRAM), power management (e.g., battery management), semiconductor processing, system simulators, video compression and decompression (e.g., MPEG), and wireless communications (e.g., OFDM, MIMO-OFDM, 802.11, 3GPP, 5G).

Prior to joining FisherBroyles, Bryan was associated with Volpe Koenig PC (Philadelphia), Of Counsel with Fogg and Powers, LLC (Minneapolis), Of Counsel with Brown & Sterling P.S., Counsel to the Firm at Lane Powell PC (Seattle), Partner at Graybeal Jackson PLLC (Bellevue, WA), Associate at Seed & Berry (now Seed IP) (Seattle), Associate at Baker & Botts (Dallas), and a Law Clerk in the patent department of Raytheon Company.

Prior to beginning his legal career, Bryan designed analog and digital circuits for the industrial products group of Polaroid Corporation, where he co-invented and patented a high-speed laser driver for medical printer applications (U.S. Patent No. 5,123,023 Laser Driver With Plural Feedback Loops).

Bryan earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, his law degree from Suffolk University Law School, cum laude (2nd in class), and a master-of-laws degree in taxation from New York University. He is admitted to practice law in Washington, Massachusetts (inactive), Texas (inactive), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, as well as before the U.S. patent and Trademark Office.

As an attorney, Bryan has performed patent and other IP work for many small, emerging, and large companies, including Agilent Technologies, Aquor Water Systems, BAE Systems, Boeing, Coffee Equipment Company (acquired by Starbucks), Curvafix, Echodyne, Equator Technologies, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard, Intellectual Ventures, Interdigital, Intersil, Lockheed-Martin, Micron Technologies, Microscan, Microsoft, Microvision, Opticyte, Philips, Real Networks, Square One, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Vispera.

Bryan also has performed tax (including preparation of 1040, 1041, 706, 709, and 1120S tax returns), business, estate, and probate work for individuals and small businesses.

Bryan is involved with many professional organizations, including IEEE, SWAN II & III (angel-investor funds), and Washington State Patent Law Association (past president).