Admitted to the bar in Michigan
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
University of Iowa, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2002
University of Iowa, M.S. Electrical Engineering, 2004
Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis, J.D., 2008
• Francis, T. L.; Mermer, Ö.; Veeraraghavan, G.; Wohlgenannt, M.. New Journal of Physics 6, 185 (2004). “Large magnetoresistance at room temperature in semiconducting polymer sandwich devices,” available at www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/6/1/185/njp4_1_185.pdf
• Mermer, Ö.; Veeraraghavan, G.; Francis, T. L.; Wohlgenannt, M.. Solid State Communications 134, 631-636 (2005). “Large magnetoresistance at room temperature in small-molecular-weight organic semiconductor sandwich devices”
• Mermer, Ö.; Veeraraghavan, G.; Francis, T. L.; Sheng, Y.; Nguyen, D. T.; Wohlgenannt, M.; Köhler, A.; Al-Suti, M.K.; Khan, M.S.. Physical Review B 72, 205202 (2005). “Large magnetoresistance in nonmagnetic π-conjugated semiconductor thin film devices”
Thomas is a registered patent attorney specializing in patent prosecution in the medical device, electronics, electro-mechanical, and semiconductor arts. Prior to law school, Thomas was a graduate research assistant studying magnetic field effects in organic semiconductors. His research involved fabrication and testing of thin film devices including organic light emitting diodes, organic field effect transistors, and organic magnetoresistive devices. His research also involved embedded system design and computer aided drafting. He practiced as an associate at Harness, Dickey & Pierce prior to joining Shumaker & Sieffert.