Usman A. Mughal | Associate

Office: Portland
Phone: 503-439-8778
Fax: 503-439-6073
usman_mughal@bstz.com

Usman joined BSTZ after working at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro Oregon as a Design Engineer for nearly nine years in microprocessor design. He holds over ten U.S. Patents and has co-authored over fifteen technical papers. Before joining Intel, he interned at Cadence Design System and Nortel Networks in Cary and Research Triangle Park in North Carolina respectively.
 
His practice focuses on patent prosecution of electrical, computer, and software related inventions. He also provides litigation support for non-infringement and validity opinions of third party patents.
 
He has a rich and broad practical background in technologies such as: telecommunications, semiconductors, thermal sensors, high speed I/Os, PLLs, DLLs, amplifiers, platform design, Verilog based design validation, CAD tool design, wireless, antennas, microwave circuits, and software design including object oriented programming.
 
Usman is active in the local community. He co-founded a safety-net non-profit clinic in SW Portland called South West Community Health Center. The Center provides health care services to uninsured and underinsured clients.  He currently serves as a board member for the Center.
 
Before joining BSTZ, Usman clerked the summer of 2007 at Marger Johnson & McCollom, P.C. in Portland, Oregon.