Intellectual Property - Legal Services

Corporate IP Training, Audits & Strategic Counsel

When Employees Leave, Does Your IP Leave With Them?

Most companies can’t say what they own — until they need to. Your engineers are creating patentable inventions. Your team is handling confidential processes. Your brand is building value. And in most companies, none of it is being systematically captured, documented, or protected — until a dispute, an acquisition, or a departure forces the question. We run IP audits, invention-harvesting sessions, and employee training that surface what your business already owns and lock it down before it becomes someone else’s. Acting as an extension of your management and in-house counsel, we build the practical protections that hold up when they’re tested.

Not sure what your company actually owns? That’s the audit. Start here.

Trademark & Copyright Protection

Someone’s Using Your Name — Or You’re About to Launch and Don’t Know If You Can.

The wrong name can cost you a rebrand. The right clearance costs a fraction of it.You’re naming a company, launching a product, or you’ve just found a knockoff of your work for sale online. Both directions carry real exposure, and both have deadlines. We handle trademark and copyright clearance, registration, portfolio management, licensing, and enforcement — whether you’re securing a new brand or shutting down someone trading on the one you built. The goal is simple: make sure the name and the work that distinguish you in the market actually belong to you, on paper, enforceably.

Launching soon, or found an infringer? Time matters. Tell us the situation.

Intellectual Property Litigation & Dispute Resolution

You Got a Cease-and-Desist. Or You Need to Send One.

Either way, the first move sets the tone for everything after. An IP dispute can threaten your product, your reputation, and your position in the market — and how you respond in the first days often shapes the outcome more than anything that follows. We provide strategic counsel across patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, and infringement disputes, working to protect your interests through negotiation where it serves you and litigation where it’s necessary. Not every fight is worth having; we’ll tell you which one this is.

Holding a demand letter, or need to send one? Don’t respond until we’ve talked.

Patent Strategy & Portfolio Management

You Invented Something. A Patent Isn’t Automatically the Answer.

Filing on the wrong thing is expensive. Filing on nothing is worse. Founders and inventors routinely spend tens of thousands patenting the wrong feature, or skip protection on the one that mattered. The difference is strategy — knowing what’s actually protectable, what’s worth the spend, and what a competitor can design around. Our patent counsel is a registered practitioner before the USPTO with a mechanical engineering background and two decades in industry, which means your technology gets evaluated by someone who understands both the claims and the machine. We build filing strategies aligned to your commercial goals, not a filing count.

Bring us the invention before you file. That’s when strategy is cheapest.

Trade Secret Protection & Information Governance

Your Most Valuable Asset Isn’t Patented. Right Now, Anyone Could Walk Out With It.

Trade secrets protect themselves only if you protect them first. A company’s edge often lives in things that are never patented or published — formulas, processes, customer data, methods. That protection exists only as long as you’ve taken real steps to keep it secret. Miss the agreements, the policies, the exit protocols, and the legal status quietly evaporates. We help you identify what qualifies, then build the confidentiality agreements, internal policies, and risk assessments that keep it defensible — before a departing employee tests it.

If a key person left tomorrow, are you covered? Let’s find out.

Technology Transactions & Commercial Agreements

You Own the Rights. Now Make Money From Them Without Giving Them Away.

The deal that monetizes your IP can also quietly surrender it.Securing IP is only half the value — the other half is in the agreements that license, transfer, and commercialize it. A poorly structured licensing deal, NDA, or joint-development arrangement can hand away rights you spent years building. We draft and negotiate licensing agreements, NDAs, technology transfers, and commercial deals structured so your IP gets monetized on terms that keep it yours. With engineering, business, and legal training on the same side of the table, the technical and commercial terms actually line up.

Structuring a deal involving your IP? Have us look before you sign.

Qualifications

  • Admitted to Practice in Washington and the District of Columbia

  • Registered Patent Attorney, United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Juris Doctor (J.D.)

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  • Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (M.S.M.E.)

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.M.E.)

  • More Than Twenty Years of Industry Experience in Engineering, Technology, and Business Leadership

  • Experience in Intellectual Property Counseling, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Music & Entertainment Matters

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Tell us about your intellectual property matter, business objectives, or legal concerns. We will review your inquiry and contact you to discuss how KPLR IP Law may assist you.