Bruce Stuckman

Bruce Stuckman, Affiliated Attorney with Garlick, Harrison & Markison

Bruce Stuckman is an engineer with over 60 patents and a patent attorney whose current practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting patents in high-tech electrical and computer-related inventions; training inventors on IP issues; identifying and analyzing patents for acquisition, licensing and assertion; and preparing non-infringement and invalidity opinions.
He has served as Chief Patent Counsel to SBC Communications (now AT&T) and Vice President & General Counsel of SBC Knowledge Ventures, SBC’s IP management and licensing subsidiary. Prior to practicing law, Dr. Stuckman served on the engineering faculties at Oakland University and the University of Louisville/Bell South Telecommunications Research Center. He has also been a guest lecturer for the business schools of the University of Michigan and the University of Texas relating to intellectual property and innovation and has served as a consultant to Gulf & Western, General Motors, General Electric, Atlantic Richfield (now British Petroleum), the U.S. Navy and the Central Intelligence Agency, among others.

Dr. Stuckman is co-author of Business Power: Creating New Wealth from IP Assets, John Wiley & Sons, 2007 and has published over seventy articles. He has lectured countless times at professional symposia and was honored as a 2005 Fellow of the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Taskforce. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Louisville, and his PhD, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oakland University.