Ragi A.I. Elias is a registered patent attorney who concentrates his practice on patent procurement and counseling, including representing clients and managing their global patent portfolios before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the International Bureau and foreign patent offices. His practice focuses primarily on counseling clients, patentability and freedom to operate opinion work, as well as the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the mechanical and medical device arts.
Prior to joining Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, LLP, Ragi practiced intellectual property law with McCarter & English, LLP. He is deeply knowledgeable about the U.S. patent system, having previously served as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
A member of the New York and New Jersey bars, he also is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court in the District of New Jersey. Ragi has lectured on design patents, prosecution history estoppel and the doctrine of equivalents, and served as faculty for a CLE that reviewed the second anniversary of the America Invents Act of 2011, the most sweeping change to the U.S. patent system in decades.
Ragi earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University and his law degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law. While a graduate student at Rutgers, he co-authored “Mechanical Properties of Dura Mater from the Rat Brain and Spinal Cord” published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, and “Probing the influence of Myelin and Glia on the Tensile Properties of the Spinal Cord,” published in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Memberships
- New Jersey Bar Association, 2018 — Present
