Jose Alconchel Ungria

Maria Holtmann

Rinaldi Rada

Jose Alconchel Ungria

Founding partner specializing in EPO examination practices. Former director of Classification and Documentation at the EPO. Mr. Alconchel Ungria was involved in CPC since it’s creation in 2013. He was responsible for the CPC cooperation with the USPTO, and the CPC implementation in more that 35 patent offices around the world. He has deep experience in dealing with the IP5 offices and WIPO. From 2004 to 2017 Mr. Alconchel Ungria was director of the patent examination department of Vehicles and General Technology at the EPO. He worked 35 years at the EPO starting as a patent examiner. He worked for the EPO’s international cooperation as project manager for Latin America. He had also been a consultant for WIPO providing patent training in many Latin America offices. Me. Alconchel Ungria is a Spanish national, with a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering. He lives in the Netherlands.

Maria Holtmann

Founding partner specializing in establishing work sharing programs between global IP offices. Former Associate Commissioner for International Patent Cooperation at the USPTO. Ms. Holtmann led USPTO’s CPC development teams, the launch of Global Dossier, expansion of the Patent Prosecution Highway program, and managed the office’s patent pendency and quality initiative. She led the creation of the Office of International Patent Cooperation, charged with improving efficiencies and reducing costs for IP offices and stakeholders. Prior to joining USTPO, Ms. Holtmann was a program manager at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She led large-scale IT and business process improvement projects for Fortune 100 clients at Ernest & Young. Ms. Holtmann started her career at AT&T designing software products and serving as a technical expert for international mergers and acquisitions. She lives in the United States.

Rinaldi Rada

Founding partner specializing in USPTO examination practices. Former Technology Center Group Director at the USPTO. Mr. Rada was responsible for the management of patent examining groups in the fields of transportation, construction, electronic commerce, and agriculture. Mr. Rada led USPTO’s transition from the US Patent Classification System to CPC, including the training of Patent examiners and the development of related IT examination, search, and classification tools. He also led teams in the formation of the Search and Classification Examiner position and the USPTO’s transfer and search assistance and classification quality assurance programs. Mr. Rada has experience collaborating with other intellectual property offices in achieving common goals, improving processes, and IT tools related to classification scheme management, quality, and examiner collaboration. He worked 32 years at the USPTO where he started as a patent examiner and then as a supervisory patent examiner in mechanical and manufacturing technologies before becoming group director. Mr. Rada lives in the United States.