Joseph R. Carvalko

Joseph R. Carvalko is an American attorney, author, and technologist born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. As a part-time adjunct professor, he teaches a course called "Law, Science and Technology" at Quinnipiac University.
Author
Carvalko has paid for publication through AuthorHouse.
His poem "The Road Home" was a 2012 finalist in the Esurance Poems of the Road.
Carvalko’s academic papers are "Introduction to an Ontology of Intellectual Property", and "Intellectual Property Issues in the Financial & Banking Industries", as well as "On Determining Optimum Simple Golay Marking Transforms For Binary Image Processing".
Attorney
Carvalko is a practicing attorney representing clients before courts, arbitrations, and the US Patent Office, where he is admitted to practice. In addition to his trial litigation, Carvalko has a 20 year history with the American Bar Association (ABA) as Chairman of the Behavioral Sciences Committee of the ABA’s Section on Science and Technology from 1989 to 1996 and Assistant Editor of SciTech Lawyer, ABA’s Section on Science and Technology from 2005-2008.
Korean War POWs
Carvalko has worked on issues relating to American Korean War POWs detained in North Korea. As a trial lawyer in the 1980s, Carvalko tried the controversial Dumas Case, in which the US government was forced to reclassify Pvt. Roger Dumas, a US Korean war soldier from Missing In Action to Prisoner of War. Carvalko has written about this issue and, along with Ed Asner, featured (as Joe Carvalko) in the Award Winning 2005 documentary "Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs", which covers the controversial subject of American POWs said to have been left in North Korea by the US Government after the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Shared patents
Along with other individuals, Carvalko shares some U.S. patents in fuel purification, risk assessment, and financial systems. The patents include a system for the acquisition of technology risk mitigation information associated with insurance; Purifier for separating liquids and solids; and a urinary retention catheter.

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