Top Intellectual Property Lawyers in ZIP 22314 | 19 available

Michael Leonard is the president and co-founder of LeonardPatel. His practice is focused primarily on intellectual property matters, including patent and trademark prosecution, drafting opinions, and litigation support. Mr. Leonard also counsels small businesses on business issues and strategy. Mr. Leonard has assisted clients with procuring patents in numerous fields, including aerospace, complex software technologies such as operating systems and modeling software, mobile telecommunications, optics, robotics, jet and rocket engines, electronics and circuit fabrication, materials, medical devices, and machine tools. Prior to his career as an intellectual property attorney, Mr. Leonard was a software engineer and a consultant. Some of the technologies he assisted in developing include a Java-based embedded operating system, client and server-side business applications, databases, and software for mobile devices.

I represent clients in matters involving intellectual property and state or federal civil litigation.  My goal is to help you understand your legal rights and your best real-world options, and to provide you with needed counsel while aggressively representing your interests.. I have over 15 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property counseling, prosecution, and litigation, including obtaining trademarks and patents for my clients, enforcing copyrights and trademarks against infringers, and drafting and negotiating representation, management, and other IP-related contracts.. I am an experienced state and federal litigator, successfully representing both plaintiffs and defendants in civil and criminal cases in Virginia.

I am a Co-Managing Partner and patent attorney at Alexandria-based IP law firm Nath, Goldberg & Meyer, who helps my clients acquire patents and trademarks quickly and successfully in the US and around the world to protect products and build company value. I was inspired to become a patent attorney to help inventors and companies protect their technologies and bring new innovative products to market, thereby continuing to help people live in the future.. If you are looking to protect your products and innovations and build company value, let's chat. Whether or not we decide to do business together, I am confident that our discussion will be full of insights and actionable steps that can help you.

CHARLES (CHICO) L. GHOLZ is a partner in the Litigation and Patent Interferences practice groups, specializing in patent interferences. In addition to general patent litigation, he is particularly skilled at handling patent interferences under 35 USC § 135 before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) and court review of decisions by the BPAI in interferences. He handles both appeals to the Federal Circuit under 35 USC § 141 and civil actions in district courts under 35 USC § 146.. Mr. Gholz represents a wide variety of domestic and foreign clients across a range of technologies including biotech, chemical, electronics, computers and lasers. He regularly appears before the BPAI, the Federal Circuit, and various district courts. He also counsels on patent validity and patentability, and he has appeared as an expert witness on patent issues.. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gholz served as an assistant technical advisor to the Honorable Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1970-1972).  A former Lecturer in Law at George Mason University School of Law, he has written and lectured widely on patent law.  In addition, he co-authored “Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Practice and Procedure,” LexisNexis, and “Patent Practice,” Patent Resources Institute.

Brian Alexander represents businesses and individuals in technology, corporate and real-estate law matters. He has represented clients in intellectual property, environmental, zoning and litigation matters before state and federal administrative agencies and courts.

Attorney Timothy J. Maier is Principal at the Virginia legal office, Maier & Maier PLLC. Mr. Maier handles a variety of intellectual property matters including patent preparation and prosecution, patent and trademark litigation, design patents, trademark oppositions, patent reissue and reexamination proceedings, and much more. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Licensing Executives Society and the American Intellectual Property Association. If you would like to find out about the services Attorney Maier may be able to provide you with, do not hesitate to contact his firm today.