Firm: Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Practice Areas: Patent Application
B C Killough has counseled businesses and professionals for over 30 years. His experience, business training and education provide him with the tools to facilitate deals, solve problems and protect assets. As a registered patent attorney, Killough has obtained more than 350 United States patents for clients, participated in prosecuting more than 100 foreign patent applications and filed more than 1500 trademark applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of his clients. In addition, he has obtained numerous foreign trademark registrations for clients and his foreign patent work includes participation in contested proceedings before the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office. B C Killough formerly served as an adjunct professor, teaching patent law, at the University of South Carolina School of Law.. As a litigator, Bill regularly litigates intellectual property, unfair competition, and trade regulationmatters before US District Courts, and trademark matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Institute, a national fellowship of intellectual property litigators.. Bill is certified as a mediator by South Carolina Supreme Court Arbitrator and Mediator Certification Board, and he is a member of the International Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution. In order to focus on matters in which he is most experienced, he limits his mediation practice to commercial disputes and intellectual property matters. Bill Killough’s education in the fields of engineering, business and law, as well as his experience, give him insight into and understanding of disputes in these areas and is proactive in developing creative solutions to complex business issues.
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Firm: Thrive IP
Practice Areas: Patent Application
After flying for the U.S. Navy for over a decade and serving with General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.) on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I became an electro-optics engineering center manager and eventually a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).. My practice of law is focused on intellectual property. I seek to protect my clients' valuable intellectual property in the most efficient and cost-effective manner for the individual client.*. I obtain U.S. & international patents, U.S. & international trademark registrations, and U.S. copyright registrations for my clients. Furthermore, I help clients protect and enforce their valuable intellectual property rights, including, when necessary, via litigation in federal and state courts as well as in administrative tribunals such as the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and the International Trade Commission.. My experience in patent prosecution includes mechanical, optical, computer, and electro-mechanical arts in which I have obtained hundreds of U.S. & international patents for my clients. I have also conducted dozens of patent non-infringement and validity analyses, trademark analyses and I have advised my clients with respect to copyright, trade dress, trade secret and domain name concerns.. My litigation experience includes copyright, trademark and patent infringement cases, from both the defendant's and the plaintiff's points of view. My cases have also included issues related to intellectual property, such as Unfair Business Practices and commercial disparagement.. I help clients improve their bottom line with their intellectual property. By way of a recent example, a well known national company purchased my regional client's patents and pending applications for nearly $20 million. In that case, I helped build the client's patent portfolio from scratch then assisted in its acquistion nearly 8 years later.. On the lighter side, I coach Little League and Travel Baseball teams and hope to develop our young boys into competitive gentlemen and to help them reach their God-given potentials on and off the baseball diamond.. *A South Carolina ethics opinion suggests that client testimonials are not permitted. However, AVVO will not remove testimonials because: "It is critical to Avvo’s independence and consumer credibility that attorneys not control whether reviews appear on Avvo. Accordingly, we do not delete reviews. As you can’t control whether reviews appear on your profile, there should be no issue with the SC Bar."
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