Matthew Lestina
Of Counsel / Washington, D.C. Metro Office
Matthew Lestina is a patent attorney with 30 years of experience in patent prosecution, with a concentration in display technology, electrical engineering, and consumer electronics. He represents major technology clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and brings practical experience managing patent matters from application review and filing through Office Action responses, examiner interviews, petitions, appeals, and allowance.
Matthew has prosecuted patent applications for Samsung Display Co., Samsung Electronics, and Samsung SDI across technologies including display technology, inkjet printing, secondary batteries, sheet feeding, and telecommunications. His work includes drafting substantive amendments, preparing written analyses of USPTO correspondence, counseling clients on strategic response options, and collaborating directly with inventors to ensure technical accuracy and completeness in new patent applications.
His technical foundation includes graduate-level electrical engineering training, with a master’s thesis focused on process development for semiconductor lasers. He is registered to practice before the USPTO and is admitted to the New York State Bar.
Highlights & Representative Results
Prosecuted patent applications for Samsung Display Co., Samsung Electronics, and Samsung SDI before the USPTO.
- Managed full-cycle patent prosecution, including application review, Office Action responses, examiner interviews, petitions, appeals, and allowance.
- Drafted substantive amendments and conducted examiner interviews to overcome USPTO rejections across display technology matters.
- Drafted new patent applications from invention disclosures and collaborated directly with inventors to support technical accuracy and completeness.
- Developed significant experience in display technology prosecution over a 23-year tenure with R.E. Bushnell Law Firm.
PREVIOUS/ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
- Patent Prosecutor, F. Chau & Associates, June 2025-May 2026.
- Patent Prosecutor, Kile Park Reed & Houtteman, September 2022-June 2025.
- Patent Prosecutor / Application Drafter, Independent Contractor – Patent Law, September 2018-August 2022.
- Patent Prosecutor, R.E. Bushnell Law Firm, November 1995-August 2018.
Education
- J.D., SUNY at Buffalo Law School
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University – Thesis: Process Development for Semiconductor Lasers
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, SUNY at Buffalo
Bar & Court Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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