Top best Intellectual Property Lawyers in Scottsdale | 72 available

Starting her first business at age 16, Ms. Delgado quickly found success within the entertainment field competing in Miss America pageants, modeling, as well as creating and releasing music under her stage name, Miss Krystle. Now with over 20 years’ experience in business and the entertainment fields, Ms. Delgado has applied her innovative approaches to her client brand strategies, negotiates high-stake deals, and successfully represents her clients in Court. As an entertainment attorney, Ms. Delgado combines her knowledge of business and branding, with the essentials of intellectual property, including but not limited to copyright and trademark law.. For clients, enthusiasts, creators in the music business, Ms. Delgado started the Top Music Attorney channel on YouTube. The channel helps music artists, producers, record label owners, managers, and others pursuing music business opportunity with free legal tips and insights. Ms. Delgado is live on Top Music Attorney YouTube every Thursday on Youtube.

Sandra Etherton is a registered patent attorney and the principal of Etherton Law Group, LLC. Her primary practice includes the preparation of US and foreign patent and trademark applications, licenses, and infringement opinions. Her areas of technical expertise include medical devices, software development, diagnostic and manufacturing equipment, and business methods.

Mr. Noblitt is a licensed patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has been practicing intellectual property law for over twenty-five years. Before forming The Noblitt Group, Mr. Noblitt practiced at some of the most prestigious law firms in Texas and the southwest, and was a partner with the largest law firm in Arizona.  He is experienced in the acquisition, protection, and enforcement of intellectual property rights domestically and internationally, and served five months in Japan as a liaison to a Japanese firm. Mr. Noblitt also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Arizona State University College of Law.. Mr. Noblitt’s background includes broad-based intellectual property counseling, patent preparation and prosecution, trademark and copyright registration, trade secret and trade dress protection, technology transfer, and related litigation, licensing, and counseling.  Mr. Noblitt also regularly provides support for corporate transactions, such as financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and perfection of security interests.. Mr. Noblitt received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. The following areas are representative of Mr. Noblitt’s particular technological expertise: electronics, communications, acoustics, semiconductor manufacturing and testing, medical devices, mechanical systems, optics, optoelectronics, imaging systems, data processing and storage, amplifiers, display systems, RF devices, signal processing, networking, wireless coomunications, digital and analog filters, memory systems, and computer hardware and software.. Mr. Noblitt also plays beer league hockey. Poorly. But it's fun.

Leia is an Arizona native who grew up in north Phoenix and attended Shadow Mountain High School. Pursuing her passion for science, she earned a bachelors degree in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry from the University of San Diego. During this time, she spent a semester studying in Cork, Ireland, at University College Cork. Prior to law school, Leia worked as a research assistant for several months before becoming a clinical laboratory specialist at Creative Testing Solutions where she conducted high complexity biochemical testing of blood samples. Leia earned her juris doctorate from Arizona Summit Law School, cum laude. During law school, Leia was president of the Intellectual Property Student Association and earned four CALI awards including one in legal research and writing and one in patent law and drafting. During this time, Leia worked as a law clerk for an Arizona boutique intellectual property firm during her second year and became a patent agent during her third year. Leia is currently an associate with the firm and drafts and prosecutes patent application in the chemical, mechanical, semiconductor, electromechanical, biochemical, and software technologies.

Kirk Howell has played the roles of business person and business lawyer for two decades. Kirk was a management and technology consultant for a decade before becoming an attorney. Kirk worked with clients from start-ups to the Fortune 500 on strategy, process, technology, and change management projects. Kirk enjoyed all that business and consulting had to offer, so he doubled-down by going to law school to become a business attorney. After law school, Kirk practiced law in the Business and Finance department of Greenberg Traurig. He represented borrowers and lenders in financing matters and licensors and licensees in technology and intellectual property matters, among other general transactional matters. He left Greenberg Traurig in 2011 to become Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of an e-commerce company. Kirk is now an Of Counsel with Warshawsky Seltzer concentrating on technology, business, franchise, and intellectual property law.

Ken is an intellectual property (IP) attorney and a registered patent attorney. He has practiced in large firms, mid-sized firms, and an IP boutique firm. His practice spans all areas of IP (licensing, trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret, and litigation related to these), as well as general commercial litigation. He was named a Rising Star for IP in the southwest by Super Lawyers, a peer-nominated and reviewed classification of lawyers. He’s also on the Board of Directors of Arizona Myeloma Network (AzMN), and is a member of the Arizona Technology Council, Los Abogados, and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  He is Lead Counsel rated.. To Read more about my background as an IP attorney, please check out my IP - Law Experts Profile:

Jeff Weiss, a U.S. Registered Patent Attorney based in the firm's
Washington, D.C. office and a partner in the firm, has been practicing
law since 1987. Mr. Weiss has primary responsibility for the firm's
patent and intellectual property litigation. Prior to joining the firm,
he practiced commercial litigation with Irell & Manella in Los
Angeles and Ross, Dixon and Masback (now Ross, Dixon and Bell) in
Washington, D.C.. In addition to appearances in
District Courts throughout the country (including Arizona, California,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Texas and
Washington), Mr. Weiss's substantial litigation experience includes
five infringement appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, one of which remains pending.. Mr. Weiss's recent IP litigation accomplishments include:. Represented
the defendant in a patent infringement case in Nevada District Court
involving two patents relating to gaming technology. Obtained favorable
Markman ruling and summary judgment of non-infringement with respect to
both patents.. Represented the plaintiff in a
lawsuit in Nevada district court against a former employee alleging
copyright infringement and breach of employment agreements relating to
product designs and confidential manufacturing information. Obtained
preliminary injunction, leading to settlement of all pending claims.. Served
as co-counsel in highly complex trademark ownership and infringement
dispute, involving litigation in state, federal and bankruptcy courts
in Arizona and California. Case culminated in full vindication of
clients' positions with respect to ownership and infringement issues,
following lengthy trial and post-trial and plan confirmation
proceedings.. Represented the defendant in a
trademark infringement action in Arizona District Court involving
claims relating to the name of an NBA arena. Confidential settlement
achieved following representation at evidentiary hearing in connection
with plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction.. Obtained
reversal of summary judgment in favor of an infringement defendant,
with the Federal Circuit holding that there was a material factual
issue with respect to infringement under the doctrine of equivalents
(1998 U.S. App. Lexis 10416 (Fed. Cir. 1998)). Obtained
reversal of summary judgment of patent invalidity, based on the alleged
failure to name an inventor (216 F.3d 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2000)). The
Federal Circuit's decision in this appeal interpreted the second
paragraph of Section 112 of the Patent Act, one of the basic laws
governing the validity of issued patents. Irah Donner, the author of
Patent Prosecution: Practice and Procedure Before the U.S. Patent
Office, has called it a "key" Federal Circuit decision. It has also
been the subject of at least one law review note. See Janet S.
Hendrickson, Solomon v. Kimberly-Clark Corp.: The Federal Circuit
Throws Out the § 112 2 "Regards" Clause with Inventor Litigation
Testimony, 32 Univ. Tol. L. Rev. 407 (2001).. Represented
plaintiff in a patent infringement action in Maryland District Court,
culminating in a withdrawal of the accused infringing product from the
market.. Represented defendant in patent infringement
action in Eastern District of Texas relating to telecommunications
equipment and involving multiple defendants. Case resulted in pre-trial
settlement.. Represented defendant in patent
infringement action in Eastern District of Texas relating to wireless
location technology. Case resulted in pre-trial settlement.. Represented
defendant in patent infringement action in Northern District of
California relating to harvesting technology. Case resulted in
pre-trial settlement.. In addition to his litigation
practice, Mr. Weiss prosecutes patent applications for a wide variety
of products, components and technologies, and has particular expertise
in the medical device, mechanical, and business method areas. In 1992,
he appeared before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, and persuaded the Court to reverse a unanimous decision of the
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, denying patent protection to
a football shoe having break-away cleats. (26 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1885 (Fed.
Cir. 1993)). The New York Times profiled that patent, U.S. 5,255,453, as one of its patents of the week. He has also argued before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.. Mr. Weiss also conducts infringement studies, issues patentability opinions, and negotiates licensing agreements.. Mr. Weiss is also the co-inventor of a utility patent directed to a bench press shoulder protection method (U.S. Patent 6,224,518).

I'm a 22-year lawyer, practicing in the areas of complex family law and civil litigation.  Most of my cases are high-conflict.  I am acutely aware that my job is not to make my clients' relationship with their (soon-to-be) ex worse.  Years after you forget my name, you'll have to deal with the person with whom you're fighting now.  I am a results-driven, solution-oriented lawyer.  My job is to work myself out of a job.  Each of my clients has my cell phone number.  I am never, ever, out-of-touch.  In addition to my practice, I'm an adjunct professor, teaching family law at Arizona Summit Law School.. I'm 47, originally from New York City, but lost the accent years ago.  I'm married with two teenaged boys.  In my spare time, I write fiction, articles, and collect pinball machines.

I focus my legal practice on intellectual property litigation and pre-litigation disputes, intellectual property transactions, and the prosecution of trademark and copyright applications. I regularly counsel clients in a wide range of industries on all aspects of trademark, copyright, trade secret, advertising, and internet law and have represented them in courts throughout the United States and in the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Before joining RM Warner, PLC, I was a partner at several Phoenix area law firms and was an associate attorney at an Am Law 200 law firm prior to that. Before attending law school, I was a television producer in Los Angeles.

I am a registered patent attorney who employs a seamless approach to protecting clients' technology and intellectual property to allow clients' businesses to thrive.  I offer a diverse array of intellectual property services including patent prosecution and procurement, patentability searches and opinions, foreign patenting services, invalidity and infringement analysis and opinions, and transactional trademark and copyright services to clients in a variety of industries including electronics, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, optics, data encryption, signal processing, medical devices, and renewable energy sources.. In addition to my private practice, I believe in the importance of education and am also a Professor of Practice at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where I serve as Director of the Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic and the Masters of Legal Studies, Patent Practice Program.  My instructional focus is on training students in the practical applications of laws and rules pertaining to transactional intellectual property practice, namely the practical aspects of patent and trademark drafting and prosecution. I have developed curriculum for and teach courses in Comprehensive Patent Practice, Patent Drafting, Patent Law, and Patent Licensing & Enforcement.

I am a registered patent attorney licensed to practice law in Arizona and before the U.S. Patent Office.. I joined the Hoffman Patent Firm in 2007, while still in law school. The Hoffman Patent Firm is a boutique-type Intellectual property firm specializing in intellectual property monetization through patent sales and litigation. Our firm also excels at improving patent protection through patent filing and continuation practice.. Our firm's small size allows us the flexibility to focus on our clients’ needs. However, we have strong international experience and have access to a network of international contacts to service our clients’ intellectual property needs around the world.. I graduated from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2008. Before attending law school I worked in the field of computer network administration. I attended the University of California at Berkeley, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Geophysics.. My wife and I live in Phoenix, Arizona with our two children.

Grant H. Frazier represents clients in business and complex litigation and arbitration matters involving commercial contracts, securities, corporate governance, real estate, construction, partnership disputes, trademark protection, and trusts and estates. He has tried civil matters before numerous Arizona superior courts, the Arizona Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as arbitration matters before the AAA and FINRA.. He also has experience drafting a range of commercial, corporate, real estate, employment, and estate documents.. Grant leverages his experience in both litigation and transactional matters in the provision of outside general counsel services. To sharpen his understanding of the intersection of economics, law, and public policy, he completed the highly-competitive Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship. Grant applies his value-added mindset to help clients with strategic planning, corporate governance, protection of intellectual property rights, positioning of businesses for acquisition, and leveraging emerging technologies in business operations.. Since his second year of practice, Grant has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Southwest Super Lawyers® Rising Star in the area of Closely Held Business Law and by Martindale-Hubbell® as a Platinum Client Champion.. His scholarly works have been, or will soon be, published by Harvard, Georgetown, University of Southern California, Arizona State University, and UC Hastings law schools, as well as by Dartmouth and Pomona Colleges. His scholarship addresses a range of novel legal and ethical approaches to topics including non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), Arizona’s Regulatory Sandbox, the implementation of serum-based genetic tests related to diagnosing and treating traumatic brain injury as part of employer-sponsored wellness programs, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing treatment, international economic espionage and U.S. intergovernmental debt, heuristic methods for assessing liability frameworks to optimize policymaking for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the Senate confirmation process for U.S. Supreme Court nominees.. Demand for Grant's counsel transcends the law. His passion for making a positive impact on his community is evident from his various leadership posts. He was elected by ASU Law's Board of Directors to ASU Law's Advisory Council in 2020 and appointed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to Arizona's Civil Rights Advisory Board (ACRAB) in 2021. Grant also serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Center for Law and Military Policy (CLMP), Chairman of the Claremont Colleges Rugby Board of Directors, Attorney Editor for the Journal of Law, Policy & Military Affairs, and an alumni admissions interviewer for Pomona College. He is also an active member of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations (PCFR) and the Federalist Society.. In addition, Grant spearheaded the creation and endowment of the James Madison Scholarship – the first student-led endowed scholarship in ASU’s history – which seeks to promote student leadership and extracurricular intellectual programming. Grant also leads development efforts for the Claremont Colleges Rugby Program and writes grant applications for the Center for Law and Military Policy.. Grant earned his law degree from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 2019 with a Law, Science, and Technology certificate. He externed with the Hon. Bridget E. Bade, now of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Hon. David A. Thompson of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three; and the Arizona Attorney General’s Civil Litigation Division. Grant also worked as a Policy Analyst for a member of the Arizona House of Representatives; as a consultant determining the applicability of special privileges as part of a U.S. Congressional investigation; and on the Advisory Council of an education technology company.. While in law school, Grant served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association’s science and technology journal – Jurimetrics Journal ; Visiting Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy ; and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Policy & Military Affairs. He also served as President of the ASU Law Federalist Society; Vice President of Law Students for Veterans Legal Issues; Symposium Chair for the 2019 Federalist Society National Student Symposium – the largest law student conference in the U.S.; ASU Law’s Student Senator to the ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA); and logged the second most pro bono hours in his graduating class.. He graduated from Pomona College in 2016 with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. While at Pomona College, Grant captained his football and rugby teams – earning All-League and All-American honors in both sports.. Grant enjoys spending time with his family and is passionate about mentorship, fitness, educational travel, military history, geopolitics, and exploring the great outdoors.

Gordon Dudley provides both litigation and transactional representation for his clients.  He has over 25 years of civil litigation experience in state and federal courts.  He concentrates his practice primarily on commercial litigation matters, from the simple to the complex.  Mr. Dudley’s areas of practice have included intellectual property, real estate and construction law, unfair business practices, and securities litigation.  Additionally, he provides transactional assistance for clients, including business entity formation, as well as contract preparation and review in a broad variety of commercial areas.. Mr. Dudley is a member of the Arizona History Convention Board and a member of the VistaCare Hospice Foundation Board of Directors.. Mr. Dudley received his undergraduate degree, with distinction, from Arizona State University.  His Juris Doctorate, also acknowledge with distinction, is from the University of Arizona, where he was an associate editor of the Arizona Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.  He served as a Judge Advocate in the United States Marine Corps from 1974 to 1978.

Douglas Behm helps his clients achieve the best possible results in their most difficult legal problems. He practices civil litigation and white collar criminal defense, conducts corporate internal investigations, and provides mediation services. The unusual breadth of his experience gives him exceptional insight into complex civil litigation, regulatory investigations, and criminal matters. Mr. Behm began his career as an assistant district attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York in 1974. He then served as senior trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice Organized Crime and Racketeering Section in New York City from 1977 until 1987, where he prosecuted high profile criminal RICO, labor racketeering, tax evasion, narcotics trafficking, securities fraud, and official corruption cases. Since leaving the government he has worked both as a partner in large firms, serving as chairman of the litigation department of a major Phoenix firm, and as a solo practitioner. By engaging additional legal and support personnel when needed for a particular matter he combines the service capabilities and experience of a large firm with the efficiency of a solo attorney. Clients benefit from his personal attention to every detail of their cases. He has defended major corporations and their directors, officers and employees, public officials, physicians, high ranking military officers, and individuals in white collar criminal cases. He has defended and prosecuted civil cases involving breach of contract, securities fraud, civil RICO, breach of fiduciary duty, Medicare billing, the federal False Claims Act, and intellectual property cases, among others. By successfully mediating cases, he has helped many individuals and companies resolve their disputes efficiently and privately.

Craig Weiss, a U.S. Registered Patent Attorney and partner with the firm of Weiss & Moy, P.C., specializes in patent application preparation and patent prosecution. Based in the firm's Scottsdale office, Mr. Weiss prosecutes patent applications for a wide variety of products, components and technologies, and has particular expertise in the gaming, medical device, mechanical, ecommerce and business method areas. Mr. Weiss has a technical background in the area of biology. Mr. Weiss focuses on international patent law issues, and in 2000 and 2001 practiced in Israel. He is also the sole or co-inventor of three U.S. Patents (5,984,951, 5,117,823 and 4,834,377).

Brad Hartman is an intellectual property and corporate lawyer with experience litigating intellectual property cases and business disputes in state and federal courts.Brad has extensive experience counseling clients holding a broad spectrum of technologies and intellectual property rights. He helps clients of all shapes and sizes protect, license, transfer, and enforce their trademarks, patents, copyright-protected materials, Internet domain names and trade secrets. Brad clears, registers, and enforces trademarks in the U.S. and internationally, including litigation in federal courts and in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Brad helps clients pinpoint, protect, and generate profit from their intellectual property rights.Brad is involved in drafting and negotiating complex agreements involving the acquisition, protection and licensing of intellectual property rights, as well as confidentiality, invention assignment and nondisclosure agreements. He also works with clients in recovering pirated domain names and halting the infringement of intellectual property rights on the Internet.Brad’s clients look to him as their “outside general counsel,” seeking his advice and assistance on a variety of legal matters, from corporate to complex commercial litigation to employment.Before founding his own intellectual property law firm in 2010, Brad was a Member of one of the oldest law firms in Phoenix, with 80 attorneys in four offices. Previously, Brad was a Partner in the Phoenix office of a 370-attorney national law firm, with offices in eight cities. Brad chaired the firm’s Phoenix office business department. Brad was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® 2011 in the area of Intellectual Property Law and is included in Best Lawyers in America® 2012 in the areas of Copyright Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent, and Trademark Law.Prior to his work in private practice, Brad served as a legal intern for the United States Supreme Court and a law clerk at the United States Department of Justice. He obtained his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and his B.B.A. in Economics and Public Policy Administration from The George Washington University.