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Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

I am a civil litigator, focusing on:  patent infringement, business litigation, critical motions practice, and general commercial litigation.

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.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Brian oversees the firm’s Online Brand Protection and Anti-Counterfeiting department. He also counsels clients on patent, trademark, and copyright matters. He represents clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has prosecuted trademark and patent applications from filing to registration. He regularly handles trademark opposition litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board as well as trademark filing and prosecution.. For over 30 years, Brian has been involved in all types of litigation as lead counsel. He has handled discovery, motions practice, and appellate practice. His cases have included insurance defense, employment disputes, complex business litigation and intellectual property disputes. He has tried cases in federal and state court and represents individuals and large companies, before judges and juries. He also represents clients before Arbitrators and Mediators. Since 2019 Brian has been a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer® in Intellectual Property Litigation in Pennsylvania. He has a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV®Preeminent for the highest level of professional excellence. He has also been awarded a Client Gold Champion rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He also has an AVVO rating of 10 out of 10.. As a law student, Brian clerked for Yablonski Costello Leckie & Chaban, in Washington County. Before moving to private practice, Brian began his legal career with the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Bureau and with Judge Rosalia Parker as a judicial law clerk.. In December of 2005 and 2006, Brian was chosen as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® Rising Star as one of the Best Young Lawyers Under 40 in Workers’ Compensation. This distinction is awarded to less than 3% of all lawyers in Pennsylvania.. Brian has served multiple times on the Election Board and as Judge of Elections in Franklin Park. Brian is past Chair of the Franklin Park Environmental Advisory Council and the Franklin Park Zoning Board. Brian currently serves as a Franklin Park Councilman.. Brian regularly contributes his time to Pro Bono employment and housing matters and is past Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section Council.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

I am a licensed specialist in preparing and prosecuting domestic as well as international patent applications (both utility and design), trademarks, and copyrights.  I have served as General Counsel to several early stage companies.  Part of my expertise involves developing and executing strategies for securing the various aspects of company intellectual property, including portfolio development and maintenance, as well as negotiating and preparing licenses to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.. Notable Clientele:. I have played a lead role in securing several high level patent portfolios for large corporations, including Microsoft, Cisco, and Cox.  In addition, I have prosecuted patents for other large corporate clients, including educational institutions Georgia Tech, ATT, General Electric, Coca-Cola, Halliburton, and many others.. Educational Background:. My area of expertise includes, but is not limited to, the Electrical, Computer, Software, Telecommunications, Optics, Digital Signal Processing, Medical-Devices, Industrial, and Mechanical arts.. National Sponsorships:. I sponsor the nation’s largest business incubators and accelerators, including MassChallange, Future Boston, HealthBox, Mosiac Hub, Bolt, and Running Start.  Complete listing at:

David C. Deal was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from T.C. Williams High School in 1988, where he captained the varsity rowing team. David earned a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) from the University of Virginia in 1993, and a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 2013.. David Deal is the founder of and principal attorney at The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. David is a nationally-recognized intellectual property attorney, specializing in copyright infringement matters on behalf of photographers and businesses throughout the United States and Europe. David has successfully litigated cases of all sizes and complexities in a majority of Federal jurisdictions.. David has worked extensively on the case of Vivian Maier. At the time of her death in 2009, Ms. Maier had captured hundreds of thousands of captivating images documenting city life in New York and Chicago, almost all of which had never been seen or appreciated by the public during her lifetime. David researched and wrote about the legal and moral issues involved when Ms. Maier’s work was exploited by individuals and organizations which did not possess copyright to Ms. Maier’s images (Moral Rights, Copyrights, and the Case of Vivian Maier, Villanova Law School, February 2013). David performed exhaustive genealogical research on Ms. Maier’s extended family, which led to discovery of Ms. Maier’s heirs and the creation of the Estate of Vivian Maier by the Cook County (IL) Probate Court.. Prior to founding The Law Office of David C. Deal, David worked for nearly twenty years as a free-lance documentary and portrait photographer. He traveled the United States and Europe on assignment, and his work was featured in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. He photographed well-known athletes, politicians, and businesspeople, as well as individuals outside the public view. In 2001, Alter Books published Prospects: A Portrait of Minor League Baseball, a collection of David’s photographs and short essays. His fine art photographs are included in the permanent collections of major museums and private collectors in the United States.. David is an avid runner, cyclist, and triathlete, and has competed in numerous long-distance road and trail races, as well as Ironman-distance triathlons.

With over 20 years of legal experience, Karen Schuller Boardman co-founded Alignment Legal, offering proactive, strategic, and client-centered legal services to ensure the stability of our clients’ most valued assets, business, and personal interests.. Karen graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science. After undergraduate studies, Karen spent eight years working as an intellectual property paralegal, continuing to work full-time while attending law school in the evening at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Karen is licensed to practice in Tennessee and North Carolina.. Karen advises both emerging and established business and creative clients in protecting their intellectual property through trademarks and copyrights, with a registration rate over 90%. Karen counsels businesses on entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, sales transactions, and other day-to-day operational matters. Karen assists nonprofits with organization and tax-exempt status applications, as well as their intellectual property and business needs. Karen works with clients on estate planning, as well as handing administration of estates in probate.. Originally from New Jersey, Karen attended Providence Senior High School in Charlotte. After living in the Triangle area of North Carolina for 24 years, Karen recently moved back to the Queen City in 2018. She and her husband Adam live with their dog Abigail in South Charlotte.

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).

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

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Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

I specialize in the domestic and foreign prosecution of computer software and Internet-related patents, and also provide services in strategic planning and analysis of patent portfolios, and patent validity and infringement opinions. I have prepared and filed hundreds of software-related patent applications in a wide variety of technical areas, including machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques, data mining, blockchain, cryptocurrency and other cryptography, augmented and virtual reality, smart home and Internet-Of-Things (IoT), e-commerce, networking, digital rights management, communications technology and services, operating systems, decision theory, etc.. I received my J.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where I was appointed to the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  Prior to working as a software patent attorney, I worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley for over six years. My technical degrees are from Stanford University, and include an M.S. in Computer Science (1991) and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence (1989).. I have spoken on and am the co-author of the publication, "Software Patents: Procuring and Enforcing," The Patent Resources Group, and have authored several other software-related legal publications. Other representative speaking engagements include the following:- "Layering Big Data, Machine Learning, And AI Onto Existing Law For Software And Business Method Patents", Technology Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference, December 2018- "The Seemingly Inconsistent Decisions On Section 101 Regarding Statutory Subject Matter For Software And Business Method Patents", Technology Law conference, December 2013. Specialties: computer software patent preparation / prosecution / enforcement, internet patent preparation / prosecution / enforcement

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Audrey’s passion for helping people protect themselves with trademarks came from adversity when she learned that three different organizations were fraudulently using the name of her nonprofit organization, Revolution Leadership, Inc. (), in two different states and overseas without authorization.. Her firm has a 100% success rate with 501c3 tax-exempt nonprofit filings and federal trademark filings to date (Disclaimer: Past results do not determine future outcomes).. As an attorney, she has handled transactions with a combined value of several millions. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to start-up companies. She is the author of two #1 bestselling books on Amazon.. She has been nominated for the Florida Legal Elite award, which recognizes the state's top lawyers as selected by their peers. She was a speaker at the White House Summit on Hispanic Leadership hosted by the Obama administration and served on a televised panel with Senator Hillary Clinton discussing the real estate lending crisis. She was nominated for the Presidential Citizens Medal awarded by President Obama and was featured in Black Enterprise Magazine.. She is happily married to financial author Juan P. Chisholm, J.D. and is the mother of two gorgeous girls.

Patent & Trademark attorney with substantial in-house management and outside counsel legal experience. Focus on domestic and international patent and trademark procurement, licensing, due diligence, opinions, and counseling.Registered US Patent & Trademark Attorney since 1988, Reg. No. 32952. Member of the Board of Directors, 2012-18, President 2015-17National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP). AIPLA (Patent Law Committee, Chemical Practice Committee, Trademark Committee). Specialties:. Energy (conventional and renewable). Oil & gas exploration, completion, and production tools. Artificial lift. Fracing, frac-hit avoidance. Separations technology. Adhesives. Abrasives (coated, nonwoven, bonded, diamond). Combustion technology. Glass and glass production. Catalytic polymerization and catalysts, polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene). Elastomers. Materials science. Medical devices. Computer-aided cinematography. Trademarks (common law and registered). Trade secrets. Design patents (covering ornamental shape of objects)