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Bao Tran
Santa Clara, CA Patents Lawyer with 31 years of experience
(669) 232-3440
4701 Patrick Henry Dr, Building #16
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Free ConsultationPatents and IP
Univ of Houston Law Center
Experienced Patent Attorney Specializing in IP Strategy and Valuation
With three decades of expertise, I am a seasoned patent attorney dedicated to helping businesses protect their Go-To-Market plans and increase company valuation through IP-based transformation. My focus is on converting innovative ideas into valuable IP assets.
Areas of Expertise
*Intellectual property strategy development and execution
*Patent portfolio management and monetization
*IP initiatives for enterprises of all sizes
Notable Experience
Medical Device Industry
*Guided companies from startup to IPO
*Handled procurement, prosecution, due diligence, opinions, and litigation
*Worked with technologies including dental materials, 3D printing, software systems, and HIPAA compliance
Semiconductor and Technology Sectors
*Represented a fabless 3D semiconductor company (FinFET and monolithic...
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Marin Cionca
San Francisco, CA Patents Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, IP and Trademarks
Concord Law School
Since 2009, Mr. Cionca is a registered patent attorney and founder of CIONCA IP Law P.C. ("CIONCA IP"), an intellectual property law practice based in Irvine, Orange County, California. He has an extensive technical background having graduated from a five-year European engineering program, having practical engineering experience and having taught College Physics. He helps clients with patent application and prosecution matters in various technologies including, engineering, computer, software, mechanical, physics-related and medical device technologies.
He also helps startups and businesses acquire and enforce their intellectual property rights in patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other IP, such as by sending cease...
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Christopher McElwain
Monterey, CA Patents Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, Business, IP and Trademarks
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Chris is experienced in a range of practice areas affecting business owners and creative professionals, including trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, plant variety protection, domain names, licensing and other contracts, sweepstakes and contest regulation, online speech and civil litigation. ? Prior to founding Knowmad Law, Chris was head of the trademark and transactional practice at LaRiviere, Grubman P.C. and head of the litigation practice at Saper Law Offices in Chicago. He attended law school at USC, where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. Before entering the legal profession, he also taught English at Northwestern Polytechnical University in...
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Ali Makoui
San Jose, CA Patents Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
I am very responsive to clients' inquiries and easy to get along with. I am used to doing heavy lifting for tough tasks.
My practice concentration is in writing Patent and Trademark applications. We write patent specifications and prepare trademark applications with the possibility of future litigation in mind. Examples of my patent technology fields include software, electronic, telecommunications, semiconductors, Internet-of-Things, medical devices, smart phones application, data encryption, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, virtualization, medical devices, eCommerce, and mechanical devices.
I have also prepared numerous office action responses and appeal briefs in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, including European Patent Office (EPO), Japan,...
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Gerald Ray Prettyman
Pleasanton, CA Patents Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, Business, IP and Trademarks
Golden Gate University
Gerald R. Prettyman has been preparing and filing patents since 2001, and since 2006 has filed trademarks, copyrights and business filings, and worked to prevent and solve legal problems for his clients. Mr. Prettyman has prepared and filed over 200 patent applications for his clients and over 70 trademarks. Mr. Prettyman was previously an engineer and business manager, making him uniquely qualified to work with and protect the intellectual property of tech companies and to advise start-ups on how to make money without spending money. Mr. Prettyman is a U.S. Navy veteran.
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Feras Mousilli
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
Feras Mousilli is a founding partner of Lloyd & Mousilli and regularly advises business clients on a range of technology law issues. He specializes in counseling technology companies from start-ups in their early formation and development, through support of multi-billion dollar business operations of the largest companies in the world.
Mr. Mousilli has served as Senior Corporate Counsel for both Apple Inc. and Dell Inc., where he counseled clients on product development and intellectual property matters, including advertising & marketing, copyright, and trademark strategies and risks. Prior to serving as corporate counsel, Mr. Mousilli practiced with DLA Piper in the intellectual...
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James Gulseth
Livermore, CA Patents Attorney with 50 years of experience
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
UC Hastings COL
James H. (Jim) Gulseth was born and attended high school in Devils Lake, North Dakota and graduated with an A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Jim earned his JD degree at the University of California Hastings School of Law in San Francisco and is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the Federal District Court, Northern District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Corporations, Business Transactions, Securities and Tax and Intellectual Property Sections of the State Bar of California. Jim’s reported cases include...
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Stephen E. Zweig
Los Gatos, CA Patents Attorney with 17 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
William Howard Taft University
Experienced patent attorney with a strong technical background, over 250+ issued patents, and many trademarks.
In addition to my legal background, I have a Biophysics STEM background (PhD) and experience with medical devices, software, electronics, and biotech. I have a lot of experience with startups, due diligence, and litigation support.
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Peter Tormey
Pleasant Hill, CA Patents Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
John F. Kennedy University
Mr. Tormey has over 20 years of experience in product development, marketing and intellectual property protection. As a company startup veteran, Mr. Tormey brings a unique perspective on the value of intellectual property to a small and growing business. As such, he also speaks to entrepreneurs and business executives on how to protect and leverage IP assets. Mr. Tormey is the author of the "Startup Guide to Intellectual Property." As a patent attorney, Mr. Tormey has drafted over 100 patent applications covering software, electronics, wireless, radio, mobile applications, encryption and automation controls. Besides intellectual property law, ...
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David Jeanchung Tsai
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(415) 983-1176
Four Embarcadero Center
22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-5998
Patents, Antitrust, Business and IP
Santa Clara University School of Law
David Tsai is a Partner in Vinson & Elkins LLP’s San Francisco office. David's practice focuses on patent, trade secret, complex breach of contract, and product defect litigation for companies innovating biotechnology (pharmaceuticals and genetic engineering), medical devices, software (Internet and mobile apps), and hardware (semiconductors, set-top boxes, smartphones, solar wafers and light-emitting diodes/LED/OLED). His legal experience includes second chairing international arbitration cases, litigating in the areas of copyrights and trademarks, preparing and prosecuting U.S. electrical engineering patent applications, drafting patentability, freedom-to-operate and non-infringement opinions, as well as patent interference in the area of biotechnology. He also represents clients...
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Quynh Chen
Newark, CA Patents Attorney with 11 years of experience
Patents, Business, Family and Trademarks
Quynh (“Quinn”) Chen is a bilingual attorney that has been admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit of the United States Appellate Court. Her practice areas primarily focus on family law, entity formations, and intellectual property. Her interest is in software patents and helping underrepresented clients in her community.
As part of her interest in software patents, Ms. Chen is proficient in programming in Ruby on Rails, MEAN stack Javascript, and working with various databases. While at Golden Gate University, School of Law, she served as Vice President of Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
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Robert Lockhart Taylor
Livermore, CA Patents Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Robert L. (Bob) Taylor was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended high school in Berkeley, California. Bob graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 with an A.B. degree in Economics. Bob graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley) in 1985, where he was a member of the California Law Review. In 1985, he was admitted to practice in the State of California and before the Federal District Court, Northern District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He has since also been admitted...
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Marcus N. DiBuduo
Fresno, CA Patents Attorney with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, Business, IP and Trademarks
San Joaquin College of Law
Mr. DiBuduo is a patent attorney at Dowling Aaron Incorporated in Fresno, CA that has been registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His practice is focused on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, Internet law, and unfair competition. Mr. DiBuduo has a Distinguished® Peer Review Rating in Intellectual Property, Patents and Litigation from Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for the last four years by SuperLaywers® to the Northern California Rising Star List. These peer recognitions exemplify Mr. DiBuduo’s legal abilities and ethical standards.
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Richard Bennett Salles
Walnut Creek, CA Patents Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, IP and Trademarks
Univ of Oregon School of Law and U.S. ARMY TJAGCLS
Richard is a USPTO Registered Patent Attorney who loves helping creative people realize their dreams. Rich received his BA from Princeton University, then completed his Physics coursework at San Francisco State University. Rich received his J.D. with Honors & Certified in Intellectual Property from the University of Oregon School of Law. Rich has practiced in patent prosecution, patent litigation and military law, having served as an Army JAG Corps Captain stateside and overseas.
Many lawyers call themselves "i.p. lawyers," but few are truly Registered with the USPTO, licensed to secure you your patent or ® Trademark.
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John D. van Loben Sels
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer
Patents, Business and IP
Georgetown University Law Center
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Laurence Hyman
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer with 32 years of experience
(415) 440-3100
Hyman IP Law / canady + lortz LLP
1070 Green Street, Suite 401
San Francisco, CA 94133
Patents
Boston University School of Law and University of Chicago
Mr. Hyman provides patent services, licensing assistance, strategic counseling, and intellectual property portfolio reviews to biotechnology companies and academic institutions. Clients receive expertise and insight honed as a partner in a large firm, and client service informed by in-house experience, but without the fees associated with large firm overhead.
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Andrew Oliver
San Jose, CA Patents Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Patents and IP
University of Virginia School of Law
Andrew is a trial lawyer and intellectual property counselor helping clients build and protect their intellectual property portfolios and defend against accusations. He appears in the Federal Circuit and District Courts in several jurisdictions, including CA, DE, NY, TX, and VA and represents clients in the patent and trademark office and in arbitration. Andrew provides counseling including opinions regarding patent validity and infringement, intellectual property due diligence, litigation-avoidance strategies, etc.
Andrew has a degree in systems engineering and software engineering experience (designing and coding client/server software and relational databases). He has extensive experience litigating cases in a variety of...
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Dorian Cartwright
San Jose, CA Patents Attorney with 22 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
Univ of Iowa COL
Patent Attorney, Dorian Cartwright, has over 20 years of experience in providing intellectual property services to hi-tech companies of Silicon Valley and worldwide. He specializes in patent prosecution matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, primarily in the electrical arts, and additionally, supports patent litigation and patent licensing matters. His technical expertise includes computer networking, computer architecture, microprocessors, video compression and recognition, social networking, mobile apps, digital and analog circuits, and robotics, among others.
Mr. Cartwright understands the interplay of technology and business objectives. Currently, at the Law Office of Dorian Cartwright, a range of clients from large technology companies,...
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Jubin Dana
Menlo Park, CA Patents Attorney with 19 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Jubin Dana is the founder and principal attorney of Dana Legal Services. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Jubin went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law. Jubin has always had a passion to help others and that passion translates through to his interactions with Dana Legal Services’ clients. His main focus at DLS is to ensure his client’s future business revenue is secure. As his philosophy holds: “Building an IP portfolio without connecting it to the business model is a missed opportunity to grow the company.”
His expertise in IP...
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William Nelson
Modesto, CA Patents Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
San Joaquin College of Law
Registered patent attorney with several years of experience in practicing intellectual property (IP) law, particularly in the areas of preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications, patentability and infringement analyses, strategic IP counseling, and enforcing intellectual property rights.
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Mr. Stuart James West P.E.
Walnut Creek, CA Patents Attorney with 25 years of experience
Patents and IP
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Joseph Davidson Calhoun
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer with 40 years of experience
(415) 483-5525
Four Embarcadero Center
Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94111
Free ConsultationPatents, Business and IP
University of San Francisco School of Law
Joe Calhoun, a registered patent attorney also licensed in Arkansas and California, has over twenty-five years of legal and related business experience in commercial litigation and client counseling, especially in the intellectual property fields. His primary practice areas include the creation or registration of intellectual property rights, the guiding of clients’ commercialization of those rights, the assignment or licensing of such rights to or from others, and the enforcement of (or defense against) infringement claims.
After earning his Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University (Biology and Psychology), and graduating from law school at the University of San Francisco,...
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Neil Juneja
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
Neil Juneja is an intellectual property and cannabis lawyer. He is the founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, a cannabis law firm headquartered in Seattle, WA. His impeccable track record and years of cannabis business law experience – including navigating the complexities of patents, trademarks, and copyrights – helps Gleam Law stand out from the competition.
Neil founded Gleam Law because he realized other cannabis law firms provided legal advice to businesses in a vacuum. He wanted to provide legal decisions in the context of the business world and counsel long-term success. Other cannabis business attorneys are not just risk-adverse...
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Jason Cameron
San Francisco, CA Patents Attorney with 11 years of experience
(415) 238-7200
201 Spear Street, Suite 1100, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA 94105
Free ConsultationPatents, IP and Trademarks
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Jason brings a unique perspective to patent law based on his experience. He started his career in the U.S. Marine Corps working on satellite communications. During and after his enlistment, Jason attended night school and eventually earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a master's degree in electrical engineering, a MBA, and finally, a law degree. Jason has over 25 years' experience working as an engineer in fields as diverse as computer networking, UAV technology, GPS guidance systems, avionics, semiconductor technology, and many others.
Jason is motivated by ensuring his clients are able to...
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Eric Whitehead
San Francisco, CA Patents Lawyer with 9 years of experience
(415) 852-3114
Steuart Tower, One Market Plaza
1 Market St., #1100
San Francisco, CA 94105
Patents, Consumer, IP and Insurance Claims
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Dickinson College
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Samuel Kesil Simpson
San Jose, CA Patents Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Patents
George Washington Univ LS
I am a patent attorney that focuses on obtaining software patents. Having an engineering degree in computer science in addition a law degree, I routinely work with software engineers in terms they understand. I have eperience in a wide array of software technology areas, such as mobile app development, networks, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, and databases.
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Douglas Lafontaine Weller
Santa Clara, CA Patents Attorney with 41 years of experience
Patents and IP
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
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Alan Ernest Heimlich
Santa Clara, CA Patents Attorney with 23 years of experience
Patents, Business and IP
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Mark Daryl Miller
Fresno, CA Patents Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
Mark D. Miller is a registered patent attorney, and over the past 35 years has obtained hundreds of patents and trademarks on behalf of his clients from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has also assisted in obtaining hundreds of patents and trademarks in foreign countries. Mr. Miller is also an experienced business litigation attorney specializing in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition and related matters. He has been the instructor for intellectual property law classes at the San Joaquin College of Law since 1993. Mr. Miller is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated with Martindale-Hubbell®. He was selected...
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John C. Stattler
Portola Valley, CA Patents Attorney with 32 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
Golden Gate University
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Charles Louis Thoeming
Lafayette, CA Patents Attorney with 42 years of experience
Free ConsultationPatents, Arbitration & Mediation and IP
Gonzaga Univ School of Law
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Andrew Kevin Jacobson
Oakland, CA Patents Attorney with 34 years of experience
Patents, Antitrust, Business and IP
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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Adam J. Cole
San Francisco, CA Patents Attorney with 4 years of experience
Patents and IP
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Paul L. Hickman
Palo Alto, CA Patents Attorney with 40 years of experience
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Sherrie Marie Flynn
Fresno, CA Patents Attorney with 18 years of experience
499 W. Shaw Ave., Suite 116
Fresno, CA 93704
Patents, Business, IP and Trademarks
San Joaquin College of Law
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Richard Alan Ryan
Fresno, CA Patents Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Patents, IP and Trademarks
Arizona State University
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Karthik Krishna Murthy
Fremont, CA Patents Lawyer
United States Patent Attorney Karthik Murthy has over 10 years of experience in patent and trademark law. He has written and filed numerous patent applications in a wide variety of technical fields. He has responded to office actions, talked with patent examiners, and brought several patents to issue.
He also has several years of experience in patent litigation. He is well versed in writing complaints, writing claims charts, responding to motions, settlement negotiations and electronic data discovery. He has worked with all types of clients, including large multinationals, growing startups and individuals, from all around the world.
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Shawn George Hansen
Palo Alto, CA Patents Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Patents and IP
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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Valery R. Polyakov
Oakley, CA Patents Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Patents, Family, IP and Landlord Tenant
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Robert Michael Harkins Jr
Berkeley, CA Patents Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Patents and IP
UC Davis School of Law King Hall