Etan S. Chatlynne

Areas of Concentration

Patent preparation and prosecution in the technological areas of medical devices.

IP Litigation including misappropriation of trade secrets and patent litigation.
 

Professional Summary

Etan Chatlynne recently graduated Cum Laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. While in Law School, Mr. Chatlynne was a Registered Patent Agent for Hughes Hubbard and Reed.

Before Law School, Mr. Chatlynne was a Senior Engineer for Ethicon, a Johnson and Johnson Company. There, he invented, designed and developed implantable medical devices for heart surgery, pain abatement, hernia repair, and breast reconstruction. He also created manufacturing processes and sought FDA approvals. Notably, he helped develop a partially-absorbable tissue-separating hernia mesh product that is a market place success, and he served as a technical leader on a pain-abatement pump device that passed Operations and Process Qualifications, for which he earned his Black Belt in Design Excellence.

As a Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Chatlynne developed a novel form of active flow control for an air-foil dubbed “Virtual-Aero Shaping.” His research included Particle Imaging Velocimetry wind-tunnel experiments, from which he developed significant hands-on experience in the fields of fluid dynamics, laser optics, laboratory electronics, and computer programming. Mr. Chatlynne began his undergraduate studies as a Mechanical Engineer, but majored in Physics as well to ensure his education was well-rounded with theory and application. . Chatlynne’s graduate and undergraduate studies included classes in electrodynamics, microfabrication, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrical systems, electrical instrumentation, control systems, alternative energies, and computer programming.

Mr. Chatlynne is a member of the Patents Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the William C. Conner Inn of Court.

Previous Experience

• Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, Washington D.C. Summer Intern, June 2009 – August 2009
• Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Court, S.D.N.Y., Judicial Intern, January 2009 – May 2009
• Morgan & Finnegan, New York, NY, Summer Associate, May 2008 – August 2008
• Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson Company, Somerville, NJ, Senior Engineer/Engineer, July 2001 – April 2007 

Mr. Chatlynne’s Patents

• U.S. Patent No. 7,704,230 entitled Pressurized fluid reservoir for an infusion system, (Ethicon); co-inventor
• U.S. Patent No. 7,371,244 entitled Deployment apparatus for suture anchoring device (Ethicon); co-inventor
• U.S. Patent No. 7,361,179 entitled Sternal closure device and method (Ethicon); co-inventor
• U.S. Patent No. 7,335,221 entitled Suture anchoring and tensioning device and method of using same (Ethicon); co-inventor
• U.S. Patent No. 7,300,451 entitled Suture anchoring device (Ethicon); co-inventor
• U.S. Patent No. 6,652,562 entitled Suture anchoring and tensioning device (Ethicon); co-inventor

Court Admissions

• Southern District of New York
• Eastern District of New York
• District of New Jersey