Professional experience
Mark Kirkland is a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Mr. Kirkland’s practice emphasizes general client counseling and patent prosecution with special expertise in Internet-related technologies, computer software, communications, and electronics. Internet and software experience includes e-commerce applications, enterprise software systems, middle ware, computer graphics, CAD, electronic imaging, user-interfaces, electronic messaging, methods of doing business, digital rights protection, database technology and computer networking. Other experience includes medical device technology, telecommunications, and WI-FI .

Mr. Kirkland's prior experience includes three years as a law clerk and as an associate of Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert, and nine years with Lockheed Missile and Space Co. as an electrical design engineer.

Prosecution examples
Experienced in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the areas of asynchronous transfer mode communications; Ethernet, switches, routers, firewalls and security devices for networking; IC processing; computer software including computer graphics, computer architecture, data structure, and business software; wireless communications; disc drive; sensor technologies; microprocessor, memory design and circuit design; semiconductor processing, fabrication and design; guidance, navigation, and control technologies (including GPS systems); optical components; business methods; internet and telecommunications technologies.  

Bar admissions
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Admitted to the bar in California.