Tony Onello is a Founding Partner at Onello & Mello LLP an Intellectual Property Law Firm in Burlington, MA, 10 miles north of Boston. After graduating from RIT in 1990 with a BS in electrical engineering, Tony worked as a digital hardware design engineer in industry for several years while attending Suffolk University Law School – Evening Division, Boston (JD, 1994). Tony's law practice focuses on Patent Prosecution and related strategies, US and international, serving corporate and university clients in the electrical, mechanical, and software arts, and, in particular, in areas such as medical devices and sensors, semiconductor devices, microprocessor architectures, robotics, optical systems, laser systems, micro-precision pumps, dust control systems, and the like.

Tony and his wife Jennifer (IPKG '90) met at RIT and live in a town north of Boston where they raised their two children.