Thomas Cole is a partner at Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole.

Areas of Practice: Patent, Trademarks, Copyrights, Unfair Competition.

Thomas Cole 's credentials include extensive experience in litigation as well as patent prosecution. He has prosecuted numerous mechanical and electrical patent applications over a broad range of technologies including automotive safety systems, photonics and fiber optics, nuclear power generation, semiconductor manufacture, transmission belts, steel manufacturing, welding devices, radar systems, fuel cells, catalytic converters, retro reflective sheet materials and software and business methods.

Mr. Cole has also rendered numerous validity and infringement opinions and conducted both bench and jury trials for patent infringement and unfair competition and trademark opposition and cancellation matters. He has participated in licensing projects such as the licensing of seatbelt patents, electronic timepieces, modem technology (both software and patents), and highway lighting safety systems.

Education: Carnegie Mellon University (B.S. 1971); Wake Forest University (J.D., 1975). Tau Beta Pi; Phi Alpha Delta.

Admitted: to bar, 1975, North Carolina ; 1977, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ; 1982, Virginia , (admission limited to Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competition); registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Member: North Carolina State Bar; The District of Columbia Bar; The Virginia Bar

Tomas Cole may be reached by email at tcole@rmsclaw.com or by telephone at (703) 677-3001.