Warren Smith

About Warren Smith

Having passed the bar exam in 2023, I practice patent law with Maine Cernota & Curran, where I am also the Director of Business Development: Far East Asia Almost certainly the Japanese to English patent translator with the greatest cumulative work product of any translator in the industry, combining 35 years of translation experience with a deep understanding of technology (having been a semiconductor engineer in both the US and Japan, and a doctorate in technology strategy from Harvard). • Doctorate in Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Technology Strategy Department. Fulbright Scholar. Engineering at MIT through cross-registration. • Proven track record in international consulting. Built relationships with Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Cable, Fujikura Cable, Matsushita Electric, etc. Proven ability to work independently in foreign environments. • Strong quantitative analytical skills (statistical testing, etc.) Created Internet verbal data scraping/analysis tool to predict stock market changes, etc. • Strong linguistic skills (Bilingual Japanese. Proven ability to quickly learn other languages as needed.) • CEO and Founder, JapanesePatentTranslation.com. Built industry leader in Japanese-English patent translation with multimillion-dollar cumulative earnings, winning 30 law firms (including the largest IP law firms in the US) as clients, as well as essentially all major Japanese-English intellectual property translation firms. • Strong background in technology (semiconductor engineer; doctoral work in mechanical engineering at MIT; successfully navigated a broad range of technologies in translating several thousand patents; patent applicant for personal inventions in optoelectronics; university physics and electronics instructor). • Multiple entrepreneurial business strategy studies focusing on creatively matching existing technological/business resources with existing (or potential) market needs. • Adjunct professor of business strategy/policy. • Strong presentation skills (invited speaker at multiple universities, conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia, a global conference of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) VPs, Mitsubishi Electric Board of Directors (in Japanese), etc.).

Experience

1. Patent Agent Director of Business Development Far East Asia

   Maine Cernota & Curran

   Jul 2023 — Present · Nashua, NH, US

   Preparing and filing patents on behalf of inventors worldwide, focusing on semiconductor and electronics technologies. New clients welcome.

Education

• Harvard Business School

  Doctor, Business Administration/Technology Management

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Engineering Management

  1991 — 1996

• Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business

  MBA