Bell Manning LLC: Attorneys: Callie M. Bell,

Callie M. Bell, J.D.

Retired

Callie has over 20 years of experience as a patent attorney. Prior to forming Bell & Manning, LLC, Callie was a Senior Counsel with Foley & Lardner, LLP, where she worked for six and a half years.

Callie was named a Top Rated Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell® with an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating (2015-2024).

Callie was named as one of America's Most Honored Lawyers - Top 1% (2016-2023)

Education

Baylor Law School, J.D., 2003: Executive editor, Baylor Law Review

University of Alabama in Huntsville, Graduate Coursework in Electrical Engineering: 27 hours completed

Clemson University, B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1985: Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

Admissions

Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
State Bar of Wisconsin

Legal Experience

Callie has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in a wide variety of engineering and software areas, including those related to medical devices such as surgical robotic systems and imaging systems (CT, MRI, Microwave, Ultrasound), laboratory instrumentation (chromatography systems, spectrometry systems, assay analysis devices, electronic pipettes), software (control algorithms, image processing, signal processing, data processing), communication systems, power systems, antennas, and mechanical devices such as peristaltic pumps and pipettes. As examples, Callie wrote and prosecuted the applications/patents listed below by general technical area:

Software

U.S. Pat. No. 7,570,063, Space-Time Microwave Imaging For Cancer Detection.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,647,089, Surface Identification Using Microwave Signals For Microwave-Based Detection Of Cancer.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,809,427, Time Domain Inverse Scattering Techniques For Use In Microwave Imaging.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,840,045, Method And System For Parallel Reconstruction In The K-Space Domain For Application In Imaging Systems.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,155,389, Method And System For Motion Correction In Imaging Systems.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,320,489, Determining Channel Coefficients in a Multipath Channel.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,412,651, Characterizing Datasets Using Sampling, Weighting, and Approximation of an Eigendecomposition.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,525,832, Mesh Formation For Multi-Element Volumes.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,836,714, Rapid, Interactive Editing Of Massive Imagery Data.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,890,894, Seam Processing for Panorama Weaving.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,400,944, Space Dilating Two-way Variable Selection.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,110,994, Perturbation of a Shared, Distributed Cube.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,122,651, Computer System to Support Failover in an Event Stream Processing System.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,202,178, Computerized Cluster Analysis Framework for Decorrelated Cluster Identification fn Datasets.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,424,337, Number of Clusters Estimation.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,536,208, Kernel Parameter Selection in Support Vector Data Description for Outlier Identification.

Antenna Systems

U.S. Pat. No. 7,881,671, Method And System For Retrieving Information From Wireless Sensor Nodes.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,000,730, Method And System For Improving Performance In A Sparse Multi-Path Environment Using Reconfigurable Arrays.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,228,251, Ultra-Wideband, Low Profile Antenna.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,362,956, Electrically Small, Source Direction Resolving Antennas.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,811,511, Hybrid Analog-Digital Phased MIMO Transceiver System.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,849,229, Electrically Small, Super Directive Antennas.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,406,477, Traveling Wave Tube Loaded by a Material having Negative Permittivity and Positive Permeability.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,444,532, Wideband Transceiver for Antenna Array.

Electro-mechanical systems

U.S. Pat. No. 7,715,950, Non-inverter based distributed energy resource for use in a dynamic distribution system.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,787,272, Inverter Based Storage In Dynamic Distribution Systems Including Distributed Energy Resources.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,920,942, Control of combined storage and generation in distributed energy resources.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,450,963, Brushless Synchronous Machine Utilizing Third Harmonic Excitation.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,483,018, Braille Watch.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,464,603, Parallelogram Based Actuating Device.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,664,497, Double Keyboard Piano System.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,379,657, Unity Power Factor Induction Machine.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,595,858, Double Air Gap, Spoke Type Vernier Machine.

Electrical systems

U.S. Pat. No. 7,345,610, High Speed Digital-To-Analog Converter.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,140,292, Method And System For Controlling A Voltage Waveform.
U.S. Pub. No. 2014/0015524, Integrated Interconnect and Magnetic-Field Detector for Current Sensing.

Mechanical Systems

U.S. Pat. No. 8,572,808, Controlled Closure System for a Hinge.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,578,558, Hinge Support.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,844,097, Soft Opening for a Hinge.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,887,552, Ultrasound Phantom Having a Curved Surface.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,944,530, Door Balancing System for an Appliance.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,959,943, Ice Agitator.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,084,527, Door for an Appliance.

In addition to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, Callie has extensive experience in the following areas:

Preparation of appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. For example, Callie prepared an appeal brief in a case filed under accelerated examination in which the Examiner rejected the independent claims. The Board's decision reversed all of the Examiner's rejections.
Conduct of freedom-to-operate analyses. For example, Callie has conducted freedom-to-operate analyses resulting in product design recommendations.
Preparation of invalidity and non-infringement opinions. For example, Callie prepared over a dozen opinions related to patents in the area of robotic surgical devices as part of a new product development process.
Conduct of patent mining analysis. For example, Callie analyzed a diverse portfolio of patents related to various aspects of web based systems to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each patent prior to licensing discussions.
Resolution of inventorship disputes. For example, Callie assisted in the resolution of an inventorship dispute that arose between a client and a university professor.
Provision of technical and legal consultation in patent infringement litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. For example, in analyzing the patents asserted in one case, Callie identified issues related to inequitable conduct, indefiniteness, and joint infringement, which facilitated settlement negotiations.

Publications and Presentations as an Attorney

Intellectual Property Overview, Make Mine a Million $ Business, Madison, WI (June 2007).

Protecting Your Market Share Using Intellectual Property, Software & Information Industry Association Webinar, Madison, WI (June 2007).

Technical Experience

Callie's technical expertise includes 16 years as a software developer. As a lead developer and Project Manager, she designed the Advanced Subsystem, Element, and System Simulation (ASESS), a simulation of ground, space, and air based sensors and weapons. ASESS utilizes many of the latest simulation development technologies such as object oriented C++, a reusable, highly modular framework, the High Level Architecture, and XML.

In addition to being the project lead, Callie developed the radar models including the pulse schedulers, data and signal processing algorithms, and resource management algorithms. Callie also developed the satellite orbital element set flight models and the 3-degree of freedom (DoF), and 6-DoF missile flight models for thrusting and non-thrusting bodies as well as the earth atmosphere, terrain, gravitation, and rotation models used to simulate the sensor and flight model dynamics. Callie also developed the math library including coordinate system transformation functions and integration algorithms.

Callie also conducted numerous performance analyses of various radar and missile systems using simulations such as ASESS.

Callie also assisted in the development of an International emergency management planning exercise consisting of emergency responder teams from Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia as part of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. Callie assisted the Slovakian responder team during the exercise conducted in L'Viv Ukraine using geographic information system software.

Callie designed and developed a software configuration management system for a Test Engineering Department to conform with ISO standards using the Perl, KSH, C, and C++ languages. The software placed under configuration management tested the hardware and software components of the high-end graphics computers that the company manufactured.

Publications and Presentations as an Engineer

C3 (Command, Control, and Communications) and ISR Modeling in ASESS, Fall SIW Conference, Orlando, FL (Sept. 2000).

An Architecture to Support an Extensible and Scalable Simulation, Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada (July 2000).

HLA Implementation to Support FOM Independence, PHALANX - MORS Quarterly Journal (Dec. 1999).

Invited Speaker, HLA User's Group Kick-off Meeting, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL (Sept. 1999).

ASESS HLA Interface Implementation to Support Execution in Multiple Federations, MORS Symposium, West Point Military Academy, NY (June 1999).

HLA Implementation to Support Multiple FOMs, Spring SIW Conference, Orlando, FL (Mar. 1999) (selected by the Conference Committee as one of the "Top Ten" papers).

Benefits of Elevated Sensors to Cruise Missile Defense, MAS Conference, Huntsville, AL (May 1998).

Simulation Framework to Support the Broad Spectrum of Systems Analysis, Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Washington, DC (July 1997).

ASESS, MORS Symposium, Quantico, VA (June 1997).

IBIS Tool Set Implementation of BM/C3 Processing, ADPA BM/C3 Conference, US Air Force Academy, CO (Mar. 1994).

Professional Associations

American Bar Association
Wisconsin Bar Association