Patent Application lawyers in California

Firm: Thomas Coester Intellectual Property

PO Box 5876 , Santa Monica , California 90409

Practice Areas: General Practice, Patent Application, Patent Application, Patent Application

I am a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in a broad range of intellectual property matters including acquisition, protection and monetization. With a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa, I have an ideal background to handle a wide range of intellectual property matters.. I have successfully prosecuted hundreds of patents and trademarks in more than forty-five jurisdictions including throughout the European Community and Asia. He has counseled large corporations, start-up companies, and individuals on developing, building, and maintaining intellectual property portfolios, both domestically and internationally.. I have negotiated and drafted licensing agreements between rights holders and fortune 500 companies. Tom has also facilitated the sale of various intellectual property assets.. I have conducted proactive threat analyses to protect companies from infringement claims and piracy. He has counseled clients on effective risk mitigation; both offensive and defensive. I have also conducted trademark cancellation and opposition proceedings in multiple jurisdictions.. I have conducted domestic and international seminars in the areas of claims drafting practice, patent prosecution, trademark usage and licensing.

Firm: Travers Morgan, APC

3419 Via Lido #278 , Newport Beach , California 92663

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Travers is a transactional attorney with substantial experience negotiating commercial agreements of all kinds and advising on privacy compliance and intellectual property licensing and protection.. Travers represents entrepreneurs, business owners, growth startups, and venture capital investors. His experience also includes representing clients in connection with numerous M&A transactions.. Clients come to Travers when there is a need to prevent or remediate issues relating to the development, ownership, protection, licensing, commercialization, and theft of material proprietary assets. Additionally, such clients work with Travers to prevent issues regarding compliance with laws and regulations effecting technology centric companies.

Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson, LLP

12400 Wilshire Blvd ste 600 , Los Angeles , California 90025

Practice Areas: Patent Application, Intellectual Property

Hoofe IP Law PC , Orange County , California

Practice Areas: Patent Application

William J. Hoofe IV is an intellectual property attorney. Mr. Hoofe's practice focuses on patent application preparation and prosecution, patent opinion matters, and patent-related counseling to clients in a broad range of technology fields, with emphasis on securing domestic and international patent protection for inventions in the medical, aerospace and defense, electronics, computer, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries.. As a registered patent attorney, Mr. Hoofe has handled patent-related matters for clients ranging from large international and national corporations to small and medium-sized closely held companies, innovative start-ups, software developers, and individual inventors and innovators. His extensive experience involving innovative and cutting-edge technologies includes the preparation or prosecution of patent applications for Apple, Applied Materials, Covidien, IBM, Intel, Northrop Grumman, Samsung, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, United Microelectronics, United States Surgical, Valleylab Division of Tyco Healthcare, and more.. Hoofe IP Law PC is an intellectual property (IP) law firm founded in 2020. Previously associated with premier IP law firms, Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP and Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker PC, in California, and New York-based IP law firm, Carter Deluca Farrell & Schmidt LLP on Long Island.. William brings a broad spectrum of knowledge in technical disciplines, including computer science and electrical engineering, coupled with aerospace and defense industry experience in the fields of systems engineering, software engineering, and manufacturing engineering.. Professional work history includes 9½ years in the aerospace and defense industry at Northrop B-2 Division (Northrop Grumman Military Aircraft Systems Division, as of January 1, 1996) as an avionics systems engineer on the U.S. Air Force/Northrop B-2 Bomber program and Advanced Projects programs, 1990-1999.  Exercised technical control for the analysis and solution of various engineering problems.

Firm: Shay Glenn LLP

2755 Campus Drive, Ste. 210 , San Mateo , California 94403

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Yi Wilkinson is an associate at Shay Glenn LLP, where she focuses on patent drafting and prosecution, strategic patent counseling and IP due diligence investigations. Yi has relevant experience in patent prosecution in many diverse technologies including optics, medical devices, electronics, MEMS and nanotechnology, biochemistry and green technologies.. Prior to joining Shay Glenn, Yi was a patent agent at Stevens Law Group LLP and then at a medical device company in San Jose. Yi was also a summer associate at Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear LLP. Before entering the legal profession, Yi worked as an optical engineer for KLA-Tencor, Inc., Applied Biosystems, Inc. and New Focus, Inc. in the fields of optics, medical devices and semiconductor metrology equipment. She was also a research staff member at the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Texas A&M University.. Yi received her J.D. from University of California Hastings College of Law, where she was the recipient of Witkin and Cali Excellence Awards in “Law and Bioscience Seminar” and “Bioentrepreneurship Clinic”. In the Clinic, Yi worked with partners at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP and DLA Piper LLP to conduct freedom-to-operate analyses for startup companies in the Bay Area. She was also a staff editor of Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal.. Yi received a B.S. in Optical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, graduating the first in the class. She also received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. As a result of her doctoral work, Yi is the inventor of one patent and the author of several scientific publications.. Yi is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.