Timothy J. Bechen

Timothy J. Bechen has extensive experience in all aspects of patent prosecution matters including patent acquisition, re-examination, and patent validity and infringement opinions. He also has expertise in patent litigation matters, including pre-litigation analysis. Mr. Bechen has experience in licensing and intellectual property due diligence related to mergers and acquisitions.

Timothy J. Bechen has extensive experience in all aspects of patent prosecution matters including patent acquisition, re-examination and patent validity and infringement opinions. He also has expertise in patent litigation matters, including pre-litigation analysis. Mr. Bechen has experience in licensing and intellectual property due diligence related to mergers and acquisitions.

His work focuses primarily on clients in the telecommunications and computer industries, including software, hardware and graphics processing environments. He also has extensive experience in business-based methodology matters.

Mr. Bechen is an active member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Mr. Bechen was the first graduate of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, focusing on high technology start-up companies. Prior to law school, Mr. Bechen began his own not-for-profit company entitled Cancer Research Network, which worked to provide computers and web-based content to cancer patients and their families.

Mr. Bechen received a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa in 1997, concurrent with his Certificate of Technical Entrepreneurship from the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center in the Tippee School of Business at the University of Iowa. Mr. Bechen received a masters of intellectual property from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2000, concurrent with his juris doctor degree.