Doug Pinnow, Ph.D.
Doug graduated with distinction from Cornell University as a Bachelor of Engineering Physics. While serving as a Naval Officer and Nuclear Engineer on Admiral Rickover’s staff in Washington, DC, he continued his studies in physics as a NASA Fellow and received a Ph.D.
Doug went on to become a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey where he served as Supervisor of the Quantum Electronics Group in the Solid State Device Development Laboratory.
After eight years at Bell Labs, Doug became Assistant Manager of the Chemical-Physics Department at the Hughes Research Laboratory in Malibu, California. Four years later, he returned to the East Coast to become Director of R&D at Times Fiber Communications in Wallingford, Connecticut. Subsequently, he joined the Newport Corporation of Costa Mesa, California, as Vice President. He then went on to become the founder and Chief Technical Officer Electronic Monitoring Systems in Laguna Hills. California.
Now, in semi-retirement, Doug continues to enjoy working with students who would like to become patent practitioners and with inventors who require patent preparaton and prosecution servics. Further information on his patent practice may be found on his web site www.PatentsForPhotonics.com.
In his free time Doug enjoys ocean sailing and racing. He has participated in the annual Newport-to Ensenada race for nearly two decades. He and his wife, Joan, serve as foster parents, often for premature babies with special problems such as prenatal drug exposure and have cared for over 150 foster children after raising their three sons.