Top best Intellectual Property Lawyers Near me in ZIP 78704

Tim Krieger focuses on complex intellectual property matters in both state and federal courts throughout the United States.  He is also experienced in handling commercial and contract disputes.. Tim prosecutes and defends claims of patent, copyright, and trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation for individuals and private and public companies involving a wide array of products. Products defended and intellectual property protected includes watercraft, pipeline rehabilitation technology, LED warning signal lights, Telecom expense management software, gaming machines, cable video-on-demand, computer hardware and software, and private label food.. Much of Tim’s work includes counseling clients in business transactions that involve intellectual property rights, including software and patent licensing agreements, non-compete agreements, and mergers and acquisitions due diligence.. Tim has two Bachelor of Science degrees, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics from Saint Louis University.  He earned his law degree at Washington University School of Law.  While in law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Judge Kathy Surratt-States in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He also worked for five years as an electrical engineer in automobile manufacturing plants and electrical power plants after receiving his undergraduate degrees.. He is admitted to practice in the following U.S. District Courts:  Eastern District of Missouri, Southern District of Illinois and Eastern District of Texas.  He is also admitted in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.. Tim was named a "Rising Star" by Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers® (2011-2012 and is a winner of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement in association with The Library of Congress (2007).. Tim is the Co-Author, "Liability of Computer Maintenance Providers under Copyright Law: Storage Tech. Corp. v. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, Inc.," Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal (May 2006).

Nelson is experienced in matters of litigation, business law and intellectual property law including agreements, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and domain name disputes.  His technical expertise within patent law is electrical, mechanical, and computer software inventions.. Before joining Polster Lieder in 2001, he was an associate at Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd. in Chicago, Illinois.  He also has experience in tool design and computerized numerical control programming with Owens-Brockway Glass, Inc., and with the manufacture of semiconductor spin-coat processing equipment.. Nelson has substantial expertise in successfully representing clients’ interests in federal courts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. Copyright Office.

Ms. Swiezynski's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, with special emphasis in preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patents relating to electronics, computer systems, software systems and business methods.

Mr. Wegman's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, with emphasis on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical arts in the United States and abroad. Representative areas include agricultural chemicals, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and the processes and apparatus utilized to produce these chemicals.

Mr. Tietz’s practice is devoted primarily to the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical and environmental fields in the United States and abroad. His experience includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications relating to agricultural technology as well as innovative processes for manufacturing products from bio-renewable materials.

Mr. Roedel engages in a wide ranging intellectual property practice, including litigation, chemical patent preparation and prosecution, and antitrust cases. He has developed substantial expertise in chemical and chemical engineering patent matters, both organic and inorganic. His prosecution, counseling and litigation practice has ranged over an exceptional wide range of chemical and chemical engineering subject matter including organic synthesis, catalysis, electrochemistry, polymers, protein chemistry, immunoassays, chromatography, sulfuric acid technology, chemical engineering separations and process design, process control, photochemistry and lithography.

Mr. O'Neill's practice concentrates on counseling and litigation in the areas of trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law. His trademark counseling provides recommendations on trademark selection, usage, and protection.. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. O'Neill worked in the advertising agency business, first with J. Walter Thompson Company in Chicago and later as a Vice President of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles in St. Louis. He helped develop and execute advertising and marketing strategies for a large number of brand names belonging to a diverse group of clients, including Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Brown Shoe Company, ConAgra Foods, Enterprise-Rent-A-Car, Kal Kan Pet Foods, Kraft Foods, M&M/Mars, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Pillsbury, Procter & Gamble and Trans World Airlines.

Mr. McBride's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, including preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and abroad. His work focuses primarily upon biotechnology and biochemical patent preparation and prosecution, including patents directed to transgenic plants and bacteria and to novel DNA and protein sequences, chemical and pharmaceutical patent preparation and prosecution, validity/invalidity and infringement opinions, and counseling related to patentability and freedom to operate.

Mr. Keil's practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical, life sciences and related fields, both in the United States and abroad. His client counseling responsibilities regularly require him to render assessments regarding patentability, patent enforcement, freedom-to-operate and other intellectual property issues.  His experience includes obtaining patent protection for innovations in chemical engineering process design and control, catalysis, material separation, energy recovery, waste treatment, pharmaceutical synthesis and agricultural chemicals and methods.

Mr. Jordan's practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, with special emphasis in preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the U.S. and abroad. His work focuses primarily upon mechanical patent preparation and prosecution.

Mr. Hartley focuses his practice on litigating intellectual property disputes, including patent infringement, trademark and trade dress infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract. He has successfully litigated complex patent disputes in district courts throughout the United States. Mr. Hartley also has experience litigating other types of commercial disputes in federal court, including antitrust cases.  He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Harlan is a trial and appellate attorney with extensive experience in the federal and state courts. He has brought and defended civil actions on behalf of entities and individuals in a broad range of business disputes involving, for example, patent infringement, trademark infringement, control disputes, breaches of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, RICO, lender's liability, insurance coverage and employment issues. He also has counseled clients and litigated matters involving issues of antitrust law, including representation of a manufacturing company in a 56-day jury trial in which, as lead trial counsel, he secured a $105 million judgment.  He also served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney of St. Louis and was responsible for prosecution of major federal criminal cases. Capitalizing on this experience, Mr. Harlan has defended corporations, their officers and employees from criminal charges involving business matters such as price fixing, environmental pollution, government program fraud, mail fraud, false statements and other business-related criminal charges.

Mr. Everding's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law. His primary emphasis is preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patents relating to the mechanical arts. Mr. Everding is also involved in opinion work regarding patentability, freedom to operate, and other intellectual property issues.

Mr. Bain's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law. In addition to preparing and prosecuting U.S. and international patents in electrical, computer and related fields, Mr. Bain counsels clients on freedom-to-operate, infringement, due diligence, licensing, and other intellectual property issues.

Mike Kella is focused on obtaining intellectual property protection for his clients. He also has significant experience litigating complex patent, copyright, and trademark disputes on behalf of clients, ranging from individual inventors to publicly traded companies—and has helped his clients recover significant licensing revenue in the process.. Mike has successfully led briefing on complex patent claim construction issues, argued numerous Markman hearings, led infringement contention development, and defended invalidity assertions related to a variety of technologies in district courts and at the International Trade Commission.  Such technologies include power management, distributed computing, smartphone, LED display, flash memory, automotive, e-commerce, virtual private networking, video conferencing, home automation, and wireless communication technologies.. Prior to entering the legal field, Mike gained experience developing software for a Fortune 500 telecommunications company and for one of the largest privately held companies in the automotive industry.. In law school, he was Lead Articles Editor for the Saint Louis University Public Law Review, served as a judicial extern to the Honorable G. Patrick Murphy for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, and participated in moot court and trial advocacy.

Lynn Lehnert applies her extensive scientific background to the practice areas of intellectual property and toxic torts. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with experience prosecuting both patent and trademark applications. She is also a seasoned intellectual property and toxic tort litigator.. Lynn’s intellectual property practice focuses on prosecuting patent applications involving software, semiconductors, and e-commerce. Her toxic tort and environmental experience includes working on complex federal-state herbicide class actions, as well as asbestos matters.. Lynn is trained in biology, chemistry, and physics. While in law school, Lynn focused her studies on energy law, patent law, and the emerging issue of gene patents. She had the unique experience of working on the Human Genome Project for two years as a laboratory assistant. Her knowledge and technical skill bring a distinct advantage to clients in disputes involving complex scientific disputes, and enable her to communicate these issues effectively to clients and the court.. Lynn also frequently writes about asbestos litigation for Goldberg Segalla's award-winning Asbestos Case Tracker, which was recently named to the ABA Journal's prestigious Blawg 100 and named the Best Litigation Blog for 2016 by the Expert Institute in its annual legal blog contest.. As a law student intern, Lynn served as a Prosecutor for the City of Chicago Department of Law. She also held an externship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she worked on matters involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act (CERCLA); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Clean Water Act (CWA); and various federal regulations. Before entering private practice, she served as an Assistant Missouri Public Defender, handling a full caseload of felony, misdemeanor, and juvenile matters.

Kathleen Petrillo's practice is devoted to intellectual property law and, more specifically, to patent related issues, including the development, management and enforcement of worldwide patent portfolios. Ms. Petrillo has extensive experience in counseling pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and food science companies, including Fortune 500 companies as well as start-up and emerging growth companies, universities, and venture capital firms. She works closely with her clients to protect their commercially important products and achieve their business objectives while helping them avoid infringement of competitors' patents.  She frequently prepares opinions relating to infringement and validity of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, herbicide formulations and generics, and advises her clients with respect to freedom to operate involving products with multi billion dollar annual sales. Ms. Petrillo also evaluates intellectual property portfolios in connection with venture capital and private equity financings, acquisitions and joint development initiatives by her clients. Ms. Petrillo has handled re-examination and reissue matters, and regularly works with foreign counsel in developing worldwide intellectual property protection and devising strategies for patent oppositions in foreign jurisdictions. Ms. Petrillo has also acted as in-house patent counsel for clients and has negotiated their license agreements and drafted other technology related agreements.  Ms. Petrillo represents clients including Monsanto Company, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, The Solae Company, Ilypsa, Relypsa, Allied Minds, Hemoshear, Theralogics, the University of Missouri, St. Louis University, and Washington University of St. Louis.

Jim Harper's practice focuses on patent application preparation and prosecution worldwide, intellectual property counseling, patent portfolio management, product design counseling for maximizing intellectual property value and protection, agreements, patent oppositions, and patentability, infringement and freedom to operate analyses and preparation of associated opinions.

I'm an experienced US trademark and copyright attorney living in St. Louis, Missouri.  Since graduating from law school in 2005, I have helped hundreds of individuals, businesses, organizations, associations, and educational institutons avoid the devastating and disastrous effects of being sued for intellectual property infrngement by making sure they take all the legal steps necessary to protect themselves.  I take this responsibility very seriously because I have seen first-hand what can happen when someone fails to seek the advice and guidance of a trusted intellectual property attorney.. When I'm not wearing my attorney hat, I enjoy weightlifting, running, playing softball and volleyball, following current events, trying new restaurants, and watching baseball (especially the St. Louis Cardinals).  I am also an instructor at a local community college where I teach a continuing education course on trademark and copyright.

Dr. Millard's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law. Her work focuses primarily upon technologies in the biotechnology, biochemical, and pharmaceutical areas, and involves patent preparation and prosecution, invalidity and infringement opinions, and counseling related to patentability and freedom to operate.

Dr. Hendrickson's practice specializes in patent related issues, including the development, management, and enforcement of worldwide patent portfolios. She has experience in counseling pharmaceutical, chemical, and food science companies, including Fortune 500 companies as well as start-up companies and universities. She works closely with her clients to protect their commercially important products and to help them achieve their business goals while avoiding infringement of competitors' patents.  Before attending law school, Dr. Hendrickson taught Organic and Inorganic Chemistry at the College of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas, where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. Prior to teaching, she worked as an analytical chemist in the agricultural products division of DuPont Company.

Bob is a biologist with undergraduate and graduate training in endocrinology from Virginia Tech. Bob spent over 10 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries working with respiratory drugs, in-vitro diagnostics, and associated methods and instrumentation.  Earlier this decade, while working with business development on matters related to acquisition of new IP as well as protection of existing IP, Bob became very interested to pursue intellectual property law in a personal and intimate capacity.  Bob graduated from SLU Law in May 2016 and was sworn in to the Missouri Bar on September 30th, 2016.

An experienced litigator and registered patent attorney, Richard Juang draws on a varied background spanning pharmaceuticals, life sciences, software, and emerging technologies to help clients navigate and litigate complex intellectual property issues.. As a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, Richard regularly assists clients with patent, trademark, and copyright matters, as well as all types of intellectual property also handles Hatch-Watchman litigation, drawing on a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering to translate sophisticated medical and chemical concepts into winning legal strategies. His experience includes pre-trial preparation, drafting direct examination outlines for expert witnesses, handling Markman hearings, and trial assistance.. After earning his B.S. at Washington University in St. Louis, Richard continued at the University’s Law School and earned his J.D., serving with the Global Studies Law Review and being inducted into the Order of the Barristers upon graduation. He went on to earn his L.L.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Richard earned additional experience as a legal intern with the Illinois Third Judicial Circuit, where he focused on asbestos-related matters, and as a legal intern with the United States Attorney’s Office. During law school, he also interned for the Hon. E. Richard Webber in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, where he focused on patent law, licensing, and infringement matters.

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