Heidi Brun (Senior Patent Attorney)

An MIT graduate, Heidi has been a patent attorney in Israel and a US patent agent, for 20+ years. In 2002, she opened Heidi Brun Associates as a boutique patent firm, specializing in generating high quality patents.

Heidi has written patents in all the high tech fields and specializes in turning complicated concepts and highly mathematical ideas into readily understandable patent applications.

She is also an expert at working with inventors. Their visions are often complex, full of jargon, and poorly explained. Heidi and her team of patent writers and draftsmen can turn these sketches into elegant and defensible patent applications.

Over the years, Heidi has worked with a large segment of the Israeli high-tech field. She has written patent applications for IBM, CopperGate, Saifun Semiconductors, Given Imaging, Nuance, and dozens of other success stories, large and small. She has helped start-up companies build a patent portfolio and has advised numerous small inventors.

Larry has a BSc. in Information Science from Northeastern Illinois University (1983) and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago (1987). He has two decades of experience in technical and managerial positions with leading IT concerns including Accenture, KPMG, IBM Global Services, Malam Systems, Amdocs and Degel Software. Larry has also served since 2004 as a member of the Board of Directors of IMA Tech, the Israel Mobile Association's technology user group.

Bruce received his BSEE in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978. He has over 30 years of experience in his own US firm, regarding searching, preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications; infringement and validity opinions regarding both patents and trademarks; patent reexaminations; trademark oppositions and TTAB proceedings; litigation and dispute resolution; licensing & IP contracts; and IP strategy and planning.

From 1974 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Bruce and his father, Burton L. Lilling, were the principal U.S. patent and trademark attorneys for the Patent Department (Sojuzpatent) of the U.S.S.R. Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Bruce has also served as coordinator and principal lecturer for the IP continuing legal education courses at Pace University School of Law.

Rebecca Berkman (Patent Assistant/Office Manager)

Rebecca has a BSc. Hons in Operational Research with Computing (1990) from the University of Leeds, England and has worked over the years in the fields of data analysis, pharmaceutical quality assurance, programming and automated software testing.

Jillian Myers (Personal Assistant to Heidi)

Jillian has a Diploma from SP Secretarial College, was a manager in a retail outlet and has more than two decades of organizational experience.