Partner, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7463
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: rrudich@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Rebecca Goldman Rudich practices in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1989, obtained her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1994, and received her J.D. degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1996. While in Law school, she was Senior Editor for IDEA, Licensing Executives Society Student Committee Co-Founder, and Student Intellectual Property Law Association President to name a few.

Rebecca has experience in patent infringement litigation in the areas of optical discs, microprocessors, memory devices, and computer hard disks. She also has assisted in administrative hearings before the United States International Trade Commission regarding alleged infringement of patents relating to computer SIMM connectors. In addition, Rebecca has prosecuted patent applications in the electrical arts, including liquid crystal display devices, software inventions, Internet systems, semiconductor devices, cellular telephone systems, cable television systems, audio amplifiers, computer memory devices and laser devices. She has prepared infringement and validity opinions regarding existing patents in the areas of optical inspection systems, liquid crystal display devices, cable manufacturing systems, and satellite cellular telephone systems. Rebecca is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

Prior to attending law school, Rebecca served in the United States Air Force as a satellite systems engineer in the Follow-On Early Warning System ballistic missile detection program. While assigned to the Follow-On Early Warning System Program Office, she supervised design of the satellite system's communication architecture, working with design contractors to develop a laser satellite communications crosslink and a radio frequency (RF) crosslink for communicating between orbiting satellites and space to ground RF communications up and down links. In addition, she directed design of spacecraft attitude control, navigation, electrical power and communication subsystems; evaluated integration of satellite system components, including fixed ground segment, mobile ground segment, spacecraft, payload and telemetry; and directed integration of the satellite processing and communication subsystems.

While in the Air Force, Rebecca actively sponsored satellite technology development by acquiring funding for technology development programs in solar cell manufacturing, space-based batteries, travelling wave tube amplifiers, laser diodes and radiation hardening of components. In addition, she helped to develop the system communications security requirements for the Follow-On Early Warning System by serving as liaison to the National Security Agency.

While in the Air Force, Rebecca earned a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, with a concentration in satellite and optical communication systems. Her Masters thesis discussed the feasibility of a coherent space-based laser communication system.