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Patent law first intrigued me while working on a boat in the Caribbean on crystal clear, blue waters. I was a photographer with an assignment to help with a pending patent infringement lawsuit by taking pictures of fishing lines with various color treatments to determine the accuracy and enablement of whether fluorescent dyes in fishing lines are activated underwater in fishing lines.. I became a patent lawyer in large measure due to that early project. I have an undergraduate degree from Iowa State University in Chemical Engineering and my law degree from The George Washington University.. I have been a patent examiner, and now my practice involves most aspects of matters that involve a patent, a trademark, a copyright and the asociated business interests around these topics.. I offer an extended consultation to better gauge whether you need help and, if so, just how I can help.

Clifford D. Hyra is the Founder of Fresh IP PLC and an intellectual property attorney with broad experience handling domestic and international patents and trademarks and related matters. Cliff works with a global client base including multinationals, universities, overseas IP firms, and SMEs all over the country and around the world. He provides his clients with extraordinary service and personal attention wedded with cost-effective representation.. Cliff files and/or prosecutes well over one hundred patent applications each year, working mainly in the technical fields of electrical and mechanical devices, computer software and hardware, telecommunications, medical devices, material science and aerospace, as well as industrial designs. He is a master of compact patent prosecution, utilizing regular in-person, video, and telephonic Examiner interviews. He has extensive experience handling appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and beyond and rendering patentability, clearance, freedom-to-operate, and validity opinions.. Cliff also files and/or prosecutes approximately one hundred trademark applications each year. He has extensive experience handling appeals and contentious proceedings (including oppositions and cancellations) before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) as well as litigation, and trademark enforcement, conducting UDRP domain name dispute resolution campaigns and proceedings, rendering trademark registerability opinions, and handling applications for copyright registration.. Specialties: Patent and trademark preparation and prosecution, patent opinion letters, international IP protection, TTAB and UDRP proceedings, patent and trademark appeals. Bar AdmissionsVirginia State BarSupreme Court of VirginiaDistrict of Columbia Court of AppealsCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit AffiliationsIntellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). Areas of Practice. EducationJ.D., magna cum laude, George Mason University School of LawB.S. Aerospace Engineering, magna cum laude, Virginia TechRegistered Patent Attorney

Paul Ratcliffe is a registered patent attorney, a former patent examiner, and led patent activities for clients including Black & Decker and Northrop Grumman. He handles all intellectual property and technology matters with significant experience in licensing, agreements, patents, and internet/software related matters. Paul is an adjunct professor at Columbus School of Law/Catholic University and is registered in VA, MD, DC and at the USPTO.

Patrick Stanzione has over 30 years of experience protecting the intellectual property of corporate (large and small entity) clients, as well as start-up businesses and independent inventors. Stanzione & Associates, PLLC separates itself from other Intellectual Property law firms in that we pay attention to, and focus on every detail of our clients’ concerns, and we learn great strategies for these clients.  As a result, we provide 100% satisfaction for our clients, and the highest quality results. Stanzione & Associates, PLLC is conveniently based in the Washington DC metro area, providing us with great accessibility to The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Patent and Trademark Board of Appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Washington DC Airports, all within minutes.. Mr. Stanzione has represented some of the largest and highest technology corporations both nationally and internationally, and has conducted strategies with the top management levels of these companies to build their patent portfolios.  In fact, Mr. Stanzione and his team almost exclusively represented one of the largest corporations in the world to build a patent portfolio in image forming technologies, which was later sold to HP for approximately 1.5 billion dollars.  This techololgy includes everything from semiconductor chips, complex electronics, mechanical systems, optics and lasers.. Stanzione & Associates currently represents corporations based in the US, Europe and Asia, and has drafted and prosecuted over 3,500 patent applications to issuance.. In addition, since Stanzione & Associates, PLLC is a small botique firm located in Virginia with low overhead, we can provide our clients with high quality support (previously recognized by the IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) magazine as being one of the top 10 patent procurement firms in the US for QUALITY) at highly competitive costs.

My practice focuses on patent procurement and counseling. I have represented a broad range of clients before the USPTO and have collaborated with associates from the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the Canadian Patent Office and others to provide a thoughtful, collaborative approach to obtaining a global patent portfolio.My primary focus has been the representation of several Fortune 500 companies in the medical device industry in connection with an array of medical devices including transcatheter heart valve replacement, embolic protection, spinal cord and deep brain stimulation, microcatheters, ultrasound transducers, pattern-recognition imaging, balloon angioplasty, drug infusion systems, microstimulators, neurovascular intervention, lead insertion methods, hemodialysis, cochlear implants, infrared thermometers, continuous positive airway pressure systems, orthodontics, radiation therapy, sterilization techniques, stents and heart valve repair. I also work on a wide range of technologies ranging from electronic hardware and software (e.g., electrochemical batteries, circuit boards, electrical connectors, wireless locators, deconvolution and web-based applications) to various mechanical devices (e.g., compressors, valves, laser welding, and appliances).

I am a registered patent attorney (Registration Number 55,670) specializing in patent preparation and prosecution in a wide variety of technical areas, including: telecommunications, computer networking, computer gaming, semiconductors, fiber optics, aerospace, homeland security, medical systems and devices, and software.. My clients include large, mid-size, and small corporations, and many individual inventors.. I received my J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2004, where I served as Managing Editor of the University of Richmond Law Review and was a member of the McNeill Law Honor Society.  I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Biomedical Engineering, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1987.  I am admitted to practice in Virginia and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.. Prior to law school, I worked for GE for 13 years in the areas of computer numerical control, drives systems, and factory automation.  While at GE, I was trained as a Black Belt in GE's renowned Six Sigma quality initiative, a data-driven methodology for eliminating defects in any process. I was a nationally registered Paramedic, with over 15 years experience as an emergency medical service volunteer.

Terry M. Sanks, a registered patent attorney, is a founding member of the firm.  In guiding clients with developing strategies to best utilize and protect their intellectual property (“IP”), he provides representation in all areas of IP law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, litigation, and licensing and transactions.  Terry’s diverse practice also includes managing patent portfolios and trademark portfolios for Fortune 500 companies and regional companies.  Terry’s noteworthy legal abilities have resulted in him being recognized and honored at the state level and nationally.Terry has prepared and prosecuted patents in the U.S. and worldwide in numerous technologies including various aspects of electrical, electromechanical and mechanical technologies, software-based, and business methods. He also counsels clients on the patentability of inventions and provides patent infringement and validity opinions. With respect to trademarks, Terry counsels clients on the selection, availability for use, and the preparation and prosecution of trademarks with state agencies and the USPTO, including opposition and cancellation practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Terry also addresses client matters related to copyrights as well as prepares registration of copyrights filed with the United States Copyright Office. He is also litigates various matters involving intellectual property law.Terry has been an adjunct professor of law at the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University College of Law and at the Barry University School of Law. He has also volunteered his time, primarily to civic and church-based organizations, lecturing on various areas of intellectual property law.  He has also been known to mentor law students with an interest in IP law and attorneys starting their legal careers.In addition to his involvement in national bar associations, Terry is active in the Florida Bar and the Orange County Bar Association.  He was selected as member of the Federal Bar Committee and is the Chair of 7th Annual IP Symposium.Terry is a decorated officer who served in the United States Air Force. Several of his recognized accomplishments include being the first program manager of a one-of-its-kind electric propulsion space experiment, authoring several articles about electric propulsion including being published in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, and representing the Air Force at national and international conferences. He also worked as an electronic combat systems engineer, directly supporting the war-fighting mission of combat fighter pilots in both the Air Force and Navy. He later continued to serve his country as an Air Force reservist.In the community, Terry served twelve years on the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of Central Florida, three years as Board President. He also was the band booster president and vice president at a local middle school. For over a decade he was a member of various school advisory councils. Terry has also previously volunteered as the varsity girls' and junior varsity girls' basketball and volleyball coach at Teague Middle School for several years. He has also coached several community basketball teams including both boys' and girls' traveling basketball teams.  An activity which continues to exemplify his commitment to helping children is his longstanding service as a Guardian Ad Litem, representing children in child abuse and neglect cases.

I am a patent attorney in Denver and Boulder, Colorado where I provide patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright, publicity rights, advertising, entertainment law, FDA, FTC, corporate, business, settlement negotiation, litigation, and any other legal services you may require.If you want a lawyer who answers your calls personally and charges a reasonable rate, then you have found your man. I pride myself on the fact that each and every one of my clients gets the same zealous advocacy they can come to rely on again and again.Specialties: Patent, trade secret, trademark, and copyright searching, licensing, registration, prosecution, and litigation.

Scott Hilton is a partner at Kunzler Bean & Adamson, PC. Scott helps clients of all sizes acquire patent, trademark, and copyright protection for their intellectual property and helps them enforce that intellectual property. Scott is a go-to for corporate counsel at large software and hardware companies that need help with patent or trademark prosecution, and also enjoys helping new startups build valuable patent and trademark portfolios.. Scott joined the firm in February of 2006 after studying electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University. He attended law school at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. During law school, local patent attorneys selected Scott as the “Best Oralist” in the Giles Sutherland Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court competition between local law schools. Scott’s paper entitled, “Free and Open Source Software: How Free are the Nonliteral Elements?” was selected as a local winner in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition on copyright law. Scott finished his final year of law school at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he researched the subject of Internet regulation and worked to introduce a CyberSafety Constituency within ICANN, the Internet governing body.. Prior to joining the firm, Scott spent two years performing patent research and analysis on the 3GPP wireless standard for Coltera Intellectual Property. While at Coltera, Scott worked with and trained attorneys and engineers from many of the largest wireless companies in the world on intellectual property and technical matters. He later worked in-house for Fujifilm Microdisks, where he drafted core patent applications and screened patents in the disk drive industry in preparation for a new product release.

I am a U.S. patent attorney in Palo Alto, California. I specialize in helping startups and multinational companies protect inventions in the Internet, software, electrical, mechanical, and medical device arts. I am a founding Partner of the law firm of LegalForce RAPC Worldwide.. I enjoy being a patent attorney because it gives me the opportunity to work with entrepreneurial and creative people. I take pride in my work, and enjoy helping my clients build and grow their companies. I care deeply about the success of my clients and I take a personal interest in companies that I represent. I offer them direct access to my phone and a timely response within one business day or less. For this reason, I have dozens of inventors and clients who can serve as references for my legal aptitude and counsel.. I have written patent applications for a number of leading companies including Apple, Hewlett Packard, eBay, Intel, NVIDIA, VMWare, NetApp, SAP, and Adobe. In addition, I have built numerous U.S. and international patent portfolios of growing businesses including Gracenote (sold to Sony Music), Aster Data Systems (sold to TeraData), and Silver Springs Networks. Today, my clients include multinational companies, venture backed companies, and creative individuals.. Prior to starting my own law firm, I was a patent attorney at large patent law firms in the United States, including Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman and at Schwegman Lundberg. Before that, I was an electrical and software engineer at Juniper Networks, Hewlett Packard, and at Lockheed Martin for more than 5 years. I bring my deep knowledge of engineering and business to help my clients protect and enforce their most prized inventions.. Like many of my clients, I am an engineer and entrepreneur myself. This helps me uniquely understand and relate to clients and their perspectives in helping them grow their businesses. I am a co-founder and CEO of the website LegalForce Trademarkia (attracting more than 1.5 million unique visitors every month), and the website the DealMap (formerly Fatdoor, now Google Offers), which was sold to Google, Inc. in 2011. Because of the sale to Google, Inc., I am the lead inventor of valuable issued patents owned by Google including issued U.S. Patent Nos. 8,204,776; 8,064,590; 8,190,357; 8,095,430; and 7,966,567.. I hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors recognition, and a MBA/JD from Arizona State University. In addition, I studied in the graduate school of engineering at Stanford University. I have superior English analytical writing skills, having obtained a 99% rank on the GMAT analytical writing section. My writing skills earned me a full tuition with a living stipend scholarship from the Pepsi Cola Company for graduate school.. I am a licensed attorney in the state of California, and am licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office as a patent attorney.. If you have any questions about how I might be of assistance to you in protecting your intellectual property, please email me at:

Daniel's practice focuses primarily on domestic and foreign patent drafting and prosecution, trademark prosecution, online privacy policies and terms of use agreements, confidential information and intellectual property assignment agreements, and intellectual property due diligence associated with mergers and acquisition and investment transactions.. Daniel has drafted and prosecuted patent applications for start-ups of all stages and multinational corporations including NVIDIA Corporation and Samsung Electronics. Daniel was previously an associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Morrison & Foerster. In addition to his practice, Daniel also teaches a course in patent prosecution and intellectual property law at the extension program of the University of California, Berkeley.. Daniel holds an M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a law degree from Duke University Law School where he was on the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal. Daniel is a member of the state bar of California and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Dr. Jill Jacobson is an intellectual property attorney specializing in patent strategy and procurement for biotechnology, life sciences, and clean technology companies. She assists clients with obtaining patent protection for their innovations and developing an IP strategy that aligns with their business interests. She also advises clients on freedom to operate and design around options in view of competitors’ patent portfolios, due diligence in patent acquisitions, and patent licensing issues, and provides assistance with trademark registrations.  Prior to her legal career, Dr. Jacobson obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from UCLA and worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and in the biotechnology industry. She has both large law firm and in house legal experience.  She combines her scientific and legal skills to develop innovative solutions to her clients' intellectual property challenges and to provide strong protection for their innovative technologies.

MIT and Stanford Educated Patent Attorney with over 20 years of experience.. Mr. de la Cerra has worked as an attorney at major law firms known for their specialty in intellectual property, including Lyon & Lyon, LLP and Paul Hasting Janofsky & Walker, LLP, both in San Diego. He also has in-house experience, heading the intellectual property litigation section of a $1.4 Billion electronics corporation, Kyocera Wireless Corporation in San Diego. Mr. de la Cerra has also worked as general counsel for a start-up charged with developing and enforcing an intellectual property portfolio. Since 2005, he has worked as a sole practitioner helping several start-ups and established companies alike, in intellectual property procurement, strategy and assertion.. Mr. de la Cerra earned three engineering degrees in addition to his law degree. He graduated in 1993 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering. There he was recognized on the Dean’s List, and graduated fourth in his class in three years at the age of 20. He then attended the University of Southern California Law School on a full scholarship, graduating in 1996 as the youngest in his class. In 1997, Mr. de la Cerra graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, attending Stanford on a full tuition fellowship. Then in 2003, while working full-time, Mr. de la Cerra earned his master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. With over 20 years of experience applying his deeply technical education, Mr. de la Cerra understands highly sophisticated intellectual property and provides his clients with the highest level of representation.

Reasonable fees for unmatched representation. Joshua is exceptionally smart and talented. He is the top Patent lawyer in San Diego County with experience in business, law, aND sciences/engineering.