John M. Fleming, an attorney at Banner Witcoff in Washington D.C., concentrates on preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications in a variety of technical fields while participating in litigation matters, client counseling, and a wide variety of opinion work. His technical areas include telecommunications, internet-related and private network technology, semiconductors, e-commerce, digital/electronic handwriting, color management, graphical user interface systems, financial security and authentication, application programming interfaces, and computer-relation technologies involving hardware, software, and firmware. Mr. Fleming has an extensive amount of design prosecution experience and development, including various hardware in addition to computer interfaces and icons. He has filed and prosecuted hundreds of design applications from initial prototypes to commercially available products. With a practical background in electrical engineering, he has experience in all phases of writing and prosecuting complex patent applications in a variety of technical fields. Mr. Fleming also serves as Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department (MAE) at The George Washington University, teaching patent law for engineers.