Patent Application lawyers in Tennessee

Firm: Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis

511 Union Street Suite 2700 , Nashville , Tennessee 37219

Practice Areas: Patent Application

Blake Bernard focuses on patent and trademark prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the areas of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret law.  Blake primarily prosecutes patents in the mechanical, electromechanical and industrial arts.  His technical background is in mechanical engineering, including designing portable medicinal refrigeration equipment for the CDC and working on industrial engineering and optimization processes for a large grocery supplier.  He was also a teaching assistant for the physics department at the Georgia Institute of Technology.. Easy-going and straight forward, Blake enjoys working with clients as they develop new products that could evolve into the next big thing.  He frequently prepares freedom to operate opinions related to new product development and marketing efforts for clients ranging from start-ups to well-established corporations. He also represents private equity and venture capital investors in due diligence and analysis of international patent portfolios held by target companies.

Firm: Luedeka, Neely and Graham, P.C.

1871 Riverview Tower , Knoxville , Tennessee 37901

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property , Patents, Trademarks, Patent Application, Patent Application, Patent Application

David’s practice includes a broad range of intellectual property matters, with particular emphasis on patent prosecution. David has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting patent application in technology areas such as pharmaceutical formulations, lubricants, biopolymers, pesticides, papermaking, and environmental remediation.. David supervises the ongoing prosecution and maintenance of the patent portfolios for multiple clients. He has also advised clients in negotiating the purchase of various patent portfolios.. In regard to litigation, David has assisted in multiple patent infringement lawsuits, including pre-trial discovery and motion practice, negotiating settlements, and appeals to the Federal Circuit. He also regularly prepares opinions of counsel in regard to questions of patent infringement and/or validity.. David joined LuedekaNeely as a law clerk in 1998. He became an associate of the firm in 1999 and a shareholder in 2008.. Prior to attending law school, David worked as Process Manager at Ethox Chemicals, in Greenville, SC. At Ethox, he worked extensively in the preparation and manufacturing of a broad range of surfactant chemicals, including ethoxylated and propoxylated alcohols, amines, and acids; esterified ethoxylates and propoxylates; and phosphate esters.

Firm: Christopher Intellectual Property Law, PLLC

1100 Market St. , Chattanooga , Tennessee 37243

Practice Areas: Corporate, Licensing, Intellectual Property, Internet, Contracts, Business, Patent Application, Patent Infringement, Trademark Application, Trademark, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation

Kevin Christopher is an art, business, and technology lawyer, specializing in Arts and Crafts, Biotech, Energy, Government, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Startups, and Transactions.. Previously, Kevin led bioinformatics, bioscience, and biotech licensing activities at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, steered large scale partnerships in renewable energy and synthetic biology for UC Berkeley, and mentored SBIR-funded startups under the National Instittues of Health. Additionally, Kevin has served as a foundational team member or key advisor for startups with algal production, biomass conversion, microbiome editing, and hepatocellular carcinoma diagnostic technologies.. As a student, Kevin was a teaching assistant to former State of Michigan Governor Jeniifer Granholm at Berkeley Law, outstanding scholar in the UC Hastings Law and Bioscience program, judicial extern for U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer, law clerk for the U.S. Attorney's Office, and regularly featured poet in To An Unknown God - A Journal of Christian Thought at Berkeley.. Kevin's logo dervies from the Turner Cross, a German insignia featuring four opposing letters F standing for words roughly translated to English as cheerful, hardy, godfearing, and free. While an attorney is ethically obligated to be the best possible advocate for his client, it is important to do so in a principled manner. The "four f's" are principles that Kevin has adopted for life and legal practice.. Affiliations

Firm: Luedeka Neely Group, PC

900 S Gay St Ste 1504 , Knoxville , Tennessee 37902

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property , Patents, Trademarks, Patent Application, Patent Application

My intellectual property law practice is focused on prosecuting patent and trademark applications and counseling clients regarding patent and trademark matters. Using my electrical engineering background, I have secured patents for semiconductor devices and semiconductor manufacturing processes, GPS asset tracking systems, license plate recognition systems, vibration monitoring and analysis systems, medical devices, medical device inventory management software, electro-optic devices, inkjet and laser printers, X-ray imaging systems, ultrasonic test instruments, communication systems, radiation detection systems, employment law compliance software, programmable hearing aids, fluid waste treatment systems, and golf club analysis software.. I counsel clients regarding management of intellectual property portfolios, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, and defense against charges of intellectual property infringement. This includes the preparation of opinions on patent and trademark freedom-to-practice issues and patentability of inventions, and assisting clients with intellectual property due diligence. I also negotiate and prepare patent and trademark license agreements for clients seeking to monetize their intellectual property rights.. In my litigation practice, I have represented plaintiffs and defendants in patent cases involving a wide range of technologies, including vehicle diagnostic monitoring systems, GPS tracking systems, and furniture products.. Before becoming a lawyer, I was an electrical engineer with Lockheed Martin in Orlando, Florida, where I designed and tested antennas, radomes, and low-observable structures for missiles and aircraft. My design tasks included a millimeter-wave radar seeker antenna and "frequency-tuned" radome for the U.S. Army's AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire radar-guided missile.  I also participated in the design, testing and integration of an antenna and radome structure used in the target-designation radar system of the U.S. Army's AH-64A/D Longbow Apache helicopter.  I also did system-level analysis and testing of millimeter-wave radar systems, including testing of the Longbow Hellfire radar seeker in the Millimeter-wave Simulation System at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. In recognition of my work on low-observable and frequency-tuned radome structures, I was named Engineer of the Year of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society of Orlando, FL.. Bachelor of Science (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee – 1984. Doctor of Jurisprudence (Cum Laude) from the University of Tennessee College of Law – 1998

Firm: Adams and Reese, Llp

Crescent Center 6075 Poplar Ave Ste 700 , Memphis , Tennessee 38119

Practice Areas: Patent Application, Patent Infringement, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Trademark Application, Trademark, Licensing

Firm: Knox Patents: Kulaga Law Office, PLLC

8044 Ray Mears Blvd Suite 108 , Knoxville , Tennessee 37919

Practice Areas: Patent Application