Patent lawyers in California

Firm: Perkins Coie

1888 Century Park E Ste 1700 , Los Angeles , California 90067

Practice Areas: Patent Infringement

Firm: Roland Tong

19800 MacArthur Blvd , Irvine , California 92612

Practice Areas: Patent,

Firm: Manning & Kass Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP

801 South Figueroa St. , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Patents, Trademarks, Patent Application, Patent Application, Patent Application

Roland Tong focuses his practice in all areas of intellectual property. He has prepared, filed, and prosecuted numerous utility, continuation, and design patent applications as well as federal trademark applications. He regularly conducts telephonic interviews with USPTO Examiners, prepares claim amendments and office action responses, renders invalidity or infringement opinions, and performs patentability and infringement studies. Mr. Tong has substantial experience in litigating unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, and patent, trademark, copyright, and trade dress infringement cases.He has served as General Counsel and In-house IP Counsel for industry leading companies. In these capacities, Mr. Tong built their IP portfolios, conducted brainstorming sessions with their inventors, designed and implemented IP review systems for their products so that IP infringement risks are minimized, and prepared various types of IP agreements. Mr. Tong's clients come from a broad range of industries, including gaming device, medical device, printer cartridge remanufacturing, video games, and golf equipment design and manufacturing. For two consecutive years, Mr. Tong has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers Southern California Rising Stars in 2011 and 2012. Only 5% of the practicing attorneys in Southern California receive this distinction.

1385 N Adoline Ave , Fresno , California 93728

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Firm: Law Office of Ryan E. Hatch, P.C.

13323 W. Washington Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90066

Practice Areas: Patent Infringement

Firm: Viking IP

19431 Sierra Santo Road , Irvine , California 92603

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense , Patent Infringement

My focus is on acquiring, enforcing and analyzing intellectual property rights - inventions, trade secrets, trademarks, technology agreements, licensing, negotiations, compliance. I was recently principal outside intellectual property counsel in a $650 million acquisition of an Israeli medical device company. It was the largest deal of its type in the history of that country.Avery Dennison, Abbott, Edwards Lifesciences, Greenberg Traurig, Hewlett Packard, Nike, actress Regina Hall, Royce Medical (subsequently acquired by Ossur) and Western Digital have entrusted me with legal matters (I was in-house at Western Digital). As a partner in international and boutique law firms, I led patent litigation teams against 3M, Hunter Douglas, Dover and Whirlpool. Other duties have included:* Managing large IP portfolios worth hundreds of millions of dollars* Defending my written patent opinion in deposition, in litigation my client settled for $1 billion* Testifying for a heart surgeon/inventor, who then deservedly won millions in patent royaltiesPrior to my legal career, a startup run by a renowned professor hired me as a research engineer. NASA Ames and Cray Research funded my development of high-powered engineering algorithms and software.Work has taken me to Korea, Japan, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, and Canada. The Los Angeles IP Law Association elected me President - a collaborative position in which communication, teamwork, budgeting and project management are key. Thomson Reuters has listed me six times as a "Super Lawyer." Martindale-Hubbell® rates me as an AV-Preeminent attorney. My J.D. (w/honors) is from a Top 25 law school. In the community, I serve on the Finance Committee of the Irvine Unified School District and work with Team Kids, Inc. to empower youth.

Firm: Adli Law Group P.C.

444 South Flower Street , Los Angeles , California 90071

Practice Areas: Biotechnology, Patent Application

Scott McPherson, is Senior Counsel of Adli Law Group P.C. His practice is primarily focused on Intellectual Property Management, Advocacy and Protection, and Litigation. Mr. McPherson’s extensive legal background includes all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent prosecution, litigations, opinions, clearances, due diligences, licensing, interference practice, and oppositions.. Prior to joining Adli Law Group P.C., Mr. McPherson was the President and Founder of S McPherson IP Law in San Diego. Mr. McPherson brings to the firm more than 10 years of experience representing clients in the Biotech, Cleantech, Medical Devices, High Tech, Pharmaceutical, Mechanical, Consumer Goods, and Action Sports Industries. Mr. McPherson’s practice focused on Intellectual Property Management, Advocacy and Protection. Mr. McPherson has spent the last decade working in large international multipractice law firms, large intellectual property boutique law firms, and in-house with technology based companies. While working in law firms Mr. McPherson’s practice focused on Intellectual Property Management including patent, trademark and copyright protection, as well as opinion and strategy opinions based on licensing, funding or competitor analysis in a broad range of technologies ranging from simple mechanical (knives, spinal implants) to complex diagnostic machinery (non-invasive glucose monitors, DNA Microarray systems) and assays, to compositions of matter, immunoassays and vaccines and adjuvants. While working in-house as a Patent Specialist and Contract Administrator with Nanogen Inc, he managed their patent and trademark portfolio and wrote and reviewed contracts.. Before his career in law, Mr. McPherson spent over nine years with start-up biotechnology and non-profit research institutions developing and managing research used to identify the efficacy and safety aspects of drugs, devices and biologics.

Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP

655 N Central Ave Ste 2300 , Glendale , California 91203

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Firm: West & Associates, A PC

190 N. Wiget Lane, Suite 280 , Walnut Creek , California 94598

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Mr. West formed West & Associates in February 2004. Mr. West and is the managing patent attorney at West & Associates. Mr. West is responsible for coordinating prosecution, transactional, and litigation matters. In addition to counseling clients in matters related to the litigation and licensing of intellectual property rights, Mr. West's practice also includes counseling clients in obtaining, protecting, and enforcing rights associated with patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade secrets and copyrights. Mr. West has extensive experience in obtaining, protecting, and enforcing rights associated with patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, and copyrights. The technical fields of Mr. West's practice include flash memories, programmable logic devices, architecture and fabrication of semiconductor devices, disk and tape drive mechanics and electronics, holographic optical elements, optical networking, optical data storage and transmission, voice and data telecommunications and other technologies related to mechanical, electrical, civil and/or structural engineering.

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: Todd Friedland

2603 main street , Irvine , California 92614

Practice Areas: Patents, Litigation

Mr. Friedland’s practice focuses on commercial litigation and strategic counseling including complex contract disputes, class actions, unlawful business practices, trade secrets, business torts, real estate and appellate matters.  Prior to forming Stephens Friedland LLP, Mr. Friedland practiced with the multi-national law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.  Mr. Friedland was also a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul Boland and the Honorable Alexander H. Williams of the Los Angeles Superior Court, and a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, U.S.  District Court, Central District of California.. Mr. Friedland is a Past-President of the Orange County Bar Association, Past-President of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Orange County, serves on the executive committee of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers - Orange County Chapter, and is a member of the board of Project Youth OCBF.  Mr. Friedland is also Martindale-Hubbell AV - Preeminent rated, a California "Superlawyer" for 2011-2018, and is listed in U.S. News and World Repots' Best Lawyers and Best Law Firms.

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: Bartko LLP

1100 Sansome Street , San Francisco , California 94111

Practice Areas: Civil , Intellectual Property , Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property

Paul Schuck represents plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation, typically technology related.  Mr. Schuck focuses on patent litigation and has litigated patent disputes involving a broad array of technologies ranging from biotech to software to mechanical devices such oil drilling equipment and gaming machines.  He also has extensive experience with trade secret, trademark, right of publicity and licensing matters.  His practice has included matters in district courts across the . Schuck also regularly counsels clients on intellectual property matters in order to avoid future liabilities.  In addition, Mr. Schuck has handled appellate matters before the Federal Circuit, the Ninth Circuit and California Appellate Courts.

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.