Professional experience
Denis Maloney is a Principal in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson P.C. His practice concentrates on high technology intellectual property with special emphasis on computer technology, networks, and software. It also includes appeals, including Federal Circuit appeals, opinions, licensing, and transactions. Mr. Maloney's prior legal experience included five years as Patent Law Group Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and eleven years at Raytheon Company as Supervisory Patent Attorney. His prior technical experience included seven years as a Senior Digital Systems Engineer at Norden Systems.

Representative examples
Practice includes general IP management, supervision of domestic and foreign patent application programs, complex prosecution, reexamination, appeal, licensing, and opinion work. Areas of technical expertise include computer architecture, networks, circuits, microwave, radar systems, semiconductors, sonar, computer software, signal processing, database management systems, operating systems, translation software, communications protocols, optical networking. Additional areas of expertise include financial systems and software, security trading and methods of doing business. Other areas include industrial control systems, semiconductor fabrication equipment, manufacturing, and general mechanical and medical device technology. Broad experience in strategic acquisition, enforcement, and management of intellectual property assets.

Appeals example
Co-counsel for appellant Digital Equipment Corp. in an appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals from the U.S.P.T.O. Resulted in precedent setting patenting of a data structure on a computer readable medium. In re Lowry, 32 F.3d 1579; 1994; 32 U.S.P.Q.2d 1031, (Fed. Cir. 1994) Rehearing Denied and In Banc Suggestion Declined December 19, 1994, Reported at: 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 36805.

Bar admissions
Admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.