Bradley Forrest is a shareholder of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. His practice is focused on patent prosecution for complex technologies, IP counseling and IP strategy formation, and opinion work and licensing. Brad received his B.S.E.E. in 1978 from the University of Minnesota, and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., 1981). During engineering and law school, Brad worked part-time for Honeywell International, Inc. creating computer simulations. From 1984-1993, Brad was with IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, as Counsel and Manager of the Intellectual Property Law Department where he identified several key inventions and wrote many important patents, including the RAID V patent, magneto-optic recording patents, networking patents, and basic patents covering server driven work processing, known as IPC. From 1994-1995 Brad was a Division Counsel and the Copyright and Trademark Counsel for IBM worldwide in New York. Recently, Brad was named by the American Intellectual Property Law Association {AIPLA) board as an AIPLA Fellow. Brad is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and has served on its Board of Governors. He was President (2001-2002) of the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association and past Committee Chair of the AIPLA Electronics and Computer Law Committee, and Emerging Technologies Committee of the AIPLA. Brad is an active international speaker and publisher on all areas of intellectual property protection.
