Dana Paxson

Current

Freelance Patent Clerk at Self
Inventor at Self
Patent Clerk at Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

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Past

Online Instructor at Element K
Engineering Advisor at Nortel Networks
Engineering Advisor at Nortel Networks

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Education

State University of New York College at Brockport
State University of New York Empire State College
University of Michigan

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

My Website

Dana Paxson’s Summary

EXPERIENCE: Author, patent clerk, mentor, teacher, inventor: author of science fiction, fantasy, essays on diverse topics, and articles on technology; mentor and teacher for students of art, literature, English language, and self-development; inventor of telecommunications and publishing systems and software. B.A and M.A. in mathematics, B.S in art. Lifelong career in computer systems and software design and implementation.

GOALS: Developing and offering written, spoken, graphic, and audio communications that advance human knowledge, character, and society, including but not restricted to online instruction and mentoring, electronic textbook development and publishing, essays, articles, and other formats as needed.

Dana Paxson’s Specialties:

Inventing; technical writing; patent application drafting; mentoring in technical, literary, artistic, and scientific fields; graphic design.

Dana Paxson’s Experience

Freelance Patent Clerk

Self

(Writing and Editing industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

I provide services as a patent clerk to firms (and their legal support systems) seeking to develop intellectual property. I specialize in software intellectual property development, although I provide the same services as a writer and editor of patent application drafts to a wide range of technological disciplines. My work includes the preparation of drafts of specifications, claims, and drawings.
Inventor

Self

(Publishing industry)

March 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

I invent and build software to provide electronic publishing methods for authors and publishers. Currently several patent applications are on file for my work:

US 20070204211, Apparatus and method for creating literary macrames

WO 2007/101151, The Knowledge Transfer Tool: an Apparatus and Method for Knowledge Transfer

US 20080025559, Method and Apparatus for Digital Watermarking for the Electronic Literary Macrame

US 20080027822, Method and Apparatus for Electronic Literary Macrame Business Development

US 20080028297, Method and Apparatus for Presenting Electronic Literary Macrames on Handheld Computer Systems

US 20080037879, Method and Apparatus for Electronic Literary Macrame Component Referencing
Patent Clerk

Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

(Legal Services industry)

May 1999 — Present (10 years 8 months)

I work part-time as a patent clerk for Thomas R. FitzGerald, Patent Attorney, at Hiscock & Barclay, converting invention disclosures in a wide range of technical fields to drafts of specifications, claims, and drawings for Mr. FitzGerald and the firm. I have worked for Mr. FitzGerald since 1999.
Online Instructor

Element K

(Writing and Editing industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years )

For Element K, I taught numerous five-week online classes in three separate courses at the Barnes & Noble University Website. The courses: 1) Picasso, Braque, and the Dawn of Cubism, a course in art history; 2) The Lord of the Rings, a course on J. R. R. Tolkien's place in modern literature; 3) How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci; a course in applying ideas from Leonardo da Vinci's life toward improving one's own.
Engineering Advisor

Nortel Networks

(Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

January 1989 — January 1999 (10 years 1 month)

Designed, developed, adapted, maintained, and applied computer system configuration models to provide forecasts of product-system design, development, deployment, and configuration. The product systems in question were large-scale networks of computers giving access to directory-assistance database to telephone company operator services divisions. I created my models in various software environments including ART-IM for an expert-system model and Microsoft Excel with VBA for the more commonplace components.
Engineering Advisor

Nortel Networks

(Writing and Editing industry)

1989 — 1999 (10 years )

Dana Paxson’s Education

State University of New York College at Brockport

M.A. , Mathematics , 2004 — 2006
State University of New York Empire State College

B.A. , Mathematics , 2001 — 2005
University of Michigan

B.S. in Design , Fine Arts, Painting and Sculpture , 1960 — 1964

Activities and Societies:

Freshman Branstrom Prize