A virtual professional development webinar co-hosted with the Graduate Association of Latinx, Native American & Caribbean Students.
Join the OTM for a virtual Case Study in Patenting, as Director of Patent Management, Mike McCay, PhD, and WashU inventor Matthew Lew, PhD, provide a real-life overview of the patent process. Based on their success in obtaining patents for Dr. Lew’s phase mask designs, they will cover the steps beginning-to-end – from the initial invention disclosure to the final patent award — and everything in between. Don’t miss this discussion and the opportunity to ask your questions about patenting!
Contact Sarah Goode, goodes@wustl.edu if questions.
Speaker Bios
Matthew Lew, PhD
Matthew Lew joined the ESE department in July 2015. Before arriving in St. Louis, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the de la Zerda Group in Structural Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering working in the laboratory of W. E. Moerner, a WashU alumnus and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”
Professor Lew was an invited speaker at the 25th Solvay Conference on Chemistry, the Gordon Research Conference “Single-Molecule Approaches to Biology,” the 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2020), and the 5th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada. He is a recipient of a 2017 NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled “CAREER: Nanoscale sensing and imaging using computational single-molecule nanoscopy.” He has also received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Emerson Electric Co. and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering.
Professor Lew is a senior member of Optica (formerly OSA) and a member of the American Chemical Society, Tau Beta Pi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports. He is the faculty advisor of Washington University SPECTRA and was co-president of the Stanford Optical Society in 2013-14.
Dr. Lew’s patent portfolio includes:
1. M. D. Lew and T. Wu, inventors. “Pixel-Wise Point Spread Function Engineering Systems And Methods,” United States Patent 11994470 B2 (2024). [USPTO PDF, Global Dossier]
2. M. D. Lew, A. Nehorai, and H. Mazidisharfabadi, inventors. Washington University, assignee. “Methods for Quantifying and Enhancing Accuracy in Microscopy Using Measures of Localization Confidence,” United States Patent 11300515 B2 (2022). [USPTO PDF, Global Dossier]
3. M. D. Lew and O. Zhang, inventors. “Multi-View Reflector Microscope,” International Patent Application PCT/US2021/063071. [USPTO PDF, WIPO PATENTSCOPE, Global Dossier]
4. M. D. Lew, T. Wu, and T. Ding, inventors. “Systems and Methods for Performing Optical Imaging Using Duo-Spot Point Spread Functions,” International Patent Application PCT/US2021/018235. [USPTO PDF, WIPO PATENTSCOPE, Global Dossier]
5. O. Zhang and M. D. Lew, inventors. Washington University, assignee. “Systems and methods for performing optical imaging using a tri-spot point spread function (PSF),” United States Patent 10761419 B2 (2020). [USPTO PDF, Global Dossier]
Mike McCay, PhD
Mike McCay, PhD, is the Director of Patent Management at Washington University’s Office of Technology Management (OTM) and is a USPTO-licensed patent agent. OTM’s Patent Management group prepares and prosecutes patent applications directed to a variety of technologies developed by Washington University creators. Mike has worked as a patent practitioner for over fifteen years at the intellectual property practices of two St. Louis law firms as well as at OTM. Previously, Mike worked as a biosimulation engineer at Entelos, a biotech start-up in the San Francisco Bay area, where he helped develop predictive computational models of diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and exercise-induced fatigue used by pharmaceutical industry clients for the identification of potential drug targets as well as the design of clinical trials. In addition, Mike worked as an aeronautical engineer at McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Company (now Boeing), where he developed computer simulations of the flight dynamics of various fighter aircraft and assessed aircraft stability and control characteristics based on wind tunnel testing of scaled models, manned flight simulator evaluations, and flight testing of prototype fighter aircraft.
