Thomas W. Humphrey

• Affiliate Attorney/Litigator

• Attorney at Law, OH

• US Patent Attorney

Thomas W. Humphrey is a Partner with Wood, Herron & Evans, and is an Affiliate Attorney/Litigator with Bridgeway IP Law Group, PLLC. Tom is involved in all phases of patent practice, with concentration on electronic, software and computer technologies. He has served as Chairman of the Cincinnati Bar Association's Computer and High Technology Law Committee. Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1993 and to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio in 1994, Tom is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tom received both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989, and he was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He then graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University.

Tom is an active member of the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association. He has lectured on patent, copyright and trade secret law at Xavier University's College of Business Administration, at Northern Kentucky University's Salmon P. Chase College of Law and at various legal education seminars. Tom was named as one of the Ohio Super Lawyers - 2006 Rising Stars by Law and Politics Media. He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® since 2014 He resides in Glendale, Ohio with his wife Susan and their two children.

Classes/Seminars

• Guest Lecturer, Xavier University Entrepreneurship Program

• Intellectual Property, Lecturer, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, N. Kentucky University

• Lecturer, The Circuit, IT trade association of Cincinnati

• C-Cap

• American Dreamers Radio Show, April 2013

• Queen City Angels Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, 2005 to Present

• Benefits, Risks & Considerations in Using Open Licensed Software, American Intellectual Property Law

• Association, 2002 to Present

• Discovery Issues Related to Electronic Mail, 1995 to Present

• Implications of, and Suggested Strategies for Dealing with, Key Patent Law Provisions of U.S. GATT Implementing Legislation, 1995 to Present

• Software Patents, Cinti. Bar Assoc. Computer Law Seminar, 1994 to Present

• Copyright for Non-literal Aspects of Functional Software, Harvard Law School, 1993