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Grant Houston is a registered patent attorney and
founder of the firm.
Previously, he was a shareholder at Hamilton, Brook,
Smith & Reynolds, where he was a member of the finance
and compensation committees. Before starting at
Hamilton, Brook in 1993, Grant worked at Wegner &
Bretschneider in Washington, D.C. and Morgan and
Finnegan in New York. Between Hamilton, Brook and
starting Houston Eliseeva LLP, he was the General Counsel
and Vice President of AxsunTechnologies, Inc., a venture-
backed technology company, which raised over $140MM.
Presently, Grant is involved in another startup company,
MESA Imaging AG, a spin out of CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de
Microtechnique SA.
Grant has been the Co-Chairperson of the Patent Office Practice Committee and is
currently on the Board of Governors of the Boston Patent Law Association and was
previously an Adjunct Professor of Advance Patent Prosecution at Franklin Pierce Law
Center in Concord, New Hampshire.
Fields of technical specialty include software systems, including network, database,
security, and image and print processing, semiconductor and medical lasers,
therapeutic and diagnostic systems, MEMS, and X-ray/lithography/metrology systems.
He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the George
Washington University.
Grant specializes in formulating and executing on US and international intellectual
property protection strategies.
grant.houston@ghme.com
Maria Eliseeva is a registered patent attorney and
founder of the firm. She is admitted to practice in
Massachusetts, New York, the District of Columbia
and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is also
a member of the Boston Patent Law Association and
American Intellectual Property Law Association, where she
serves as a chairperson of the Electronic Business,
Automation and Harmonization of Standards Committee.
Maria has two Master's Degrees in science and engineering
(Physics and Material Science and Engineering).
Maria also has a number of publications including an article in Intellectual Property
Today entitled Ariadne’s Thread in the AIPA Labyrinth: Finding a Winning Path Through
The 102(e)/374/PCT Maze and a chapter on intellectual property enforcement for
Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace: Electronic Commerce, Valuation, and
Protection (John Wiley & Sons), ISBN: 0471351083.
maria.eliseeva@ghme.com
Cristina Taylor is a registered patent attorney. She is admitted to practice in New
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut only.
Cristina holds a B.S. degree, magna cum laude, in chemistry from City College of New
York, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale University and a J.D., cum laude, from
New York Law School. Cristina conducted post doctoral research in the laboratory of
Dr. R. E. Smalley, at Rice University where she studied metal clusters and
intramolecular vibrational relaxation mechanisms of small organic molecules.
For several years, Cristina was patent liaison consultant for the Tarrytown, New York
R&D center of Praxair, Inc. After moving to Massachusetts in 1998, Cristina joined
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
Cristina practices in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
and material science. She is fluent in the Romanian, French and Spanish languages.
see Cristina's publications
cristina.taylor@ghme.com
Ilya R. Lapshin
Education.
1984-87 Physics Department, Gorky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
1987-92 MIT, Cambridge, MA. B.S. Physics with Electrical Engineering; B.S.
Mathematics
1999-2002 Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Professional Experience: 2002-04 Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, Concord, MA.
founder of the firm.
Previously, he was a shareholder at Hamilton, Brook,
Smith & Reynolds, where he was a member of the finance
and compensation committees. Before starting at
Hamilton, Brook in 1993, Grant worked at Wegner &
Bretschneider in Washington, D.C. and Morgan and
Finnegan in New York. Between Hamilton, Brook and
starting Houston Eliseeva LLP, he was the General Counsel
and Vice President of AxsunTechnologies, Inc., a venture-
backed technology company, which raised over $140MM.
Presently, Grant is involved in another startup company,
MESA Imaging AG, a spin out of CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de
Microtechnique SA.
Grant has been the Co-Chairperson of the Patent Office Practice Committee and is
currently on the Board of Governors of the Boston Patent Law Association and was
previously an Adjunct Professor of Advance Patent Prosecution at Franklin Pierce Law
Center in Concord, New Hampshire.
Fields of technical specialty include software systems, including network, database,
security, and image and print processing, semiconductor and medical lasers,
therapeutic and diagnostic systems, MEMS, and X-ray/lithography/metrology systems.
He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the George
Washington University.
Grant specializes in formulating and executing on US and international intellectual
property protection strategies.
grant.houston@ghme.com
Maria Eliseeva is a registered patent attorney and
founder of the firm. She is admitted to practice in
Massachusetts, New York, the District of Columbia
and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is also
a member of the Boston Patent Law Association and
American Intellectual Property Law Association, where she
serves as a chairperson of the Electronic Business,
Automation and Harmonization of Standards Committee.
Maria has two Master's Degrees in science and engineering
(Physics and Material Science and Engineering).
Maria also has a number of publications including an article in Intellectual Property
Today entitled Ariadne’s Thread in the AIPA Labyrinth: Finding a Winning Path Through
The 102(e)/374/PCT Maze and a chapter on intellectual property enforcement for
Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace: Electronic Commerce, Valuation, and
Protection (John Wiley & Sons), ISBN: 0471351083.
maria.eliseeva@ghme.com
Cristina Taylor is a registered patent attorney. She is admitted to practice in New
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut only.
Cristina holds a B.S. degree, magna cum laude, in chemistry from City College of New
York, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale University and a J.D., cum laude, from
New York Law School. Cristina conducted post doctoral research in the laboratory of
Dr. R. E. Smalley, at Rice University where she studied metal clusters and
intramolecular vibrational relaxation mechanisms of small organic molecules.
For several years, Cristina was patent liaison consultant for the Tarrytown, New York
R&D center of Praxair, Inc. After moving to Massachusetts in 1998, Cristina joined
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
Cristina practices in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
and material science. She is fluent in the Romanian, French and Spanish languages.
see Cristina's publications
cristina.taylor@ghme.com
Ilya R. Lapshin
Education.
1984-87 Physics Department, Gorky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
1987-92 MIT, Cambridge, MA. B.S. Physics with Electrical Engineering; B.S.
Mathematics
1999-2002 Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Professional Experience: 2002-04 Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, Concord, MA.
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