Biographies of Our Firm

John is a registered patent agent with experience drafting, filing, and prosecuting United States patents.  Prior to this, John worked for twenty two years at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in various manufacturing engineering and management positions providing support for commercial and military jet engine programs. John is also the founder and owner of NCP, and for fifteen years he has assisted clients in developing and deploying relational database systems.  John has written software to create, import, export, and process databases across a variety of hardware and software platforms, including Foxpro, Fortran, Pascal, Visual Basic, and C#.  John also has training and design experience in a wide array of technologies including, most recently, the development of a Personal Digital Assistant for communication impaired individuals.  John has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and graduate-level training in Computer Science.

jnortrup@strategic-patents.com, (207) 985-2126