Summary
I specialize in helping small- to medium-sized businesses compete with larger companies, using trademarks and patents to build a strong brand identity and protect their key products from competition.
Key attributes:
1) A focus on and knowledge of the IP issues of small businesses
2) An emphasis on customer service: quick responses to email and phone messages, availability at all hours by cell phone, no charge for short phone calls and emails, etc.
3) Reasonable, up-front fixed fees
Intellectual Property Law: Patent searches, applications, responses, and appeals, patent infringement and patentability opinions, trademark searches, applications, responses, and appeals, trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, patent and trademark licensing, transactions, and due diligence, comprehensive intellectual property rights strategy counseling
Registered Patent Attorney
Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Virginia, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and D.C. Court of Appeals
Member, Virginia State Bar
Member, USPTO Bar
Education:
George Mason University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
Virginia Tech, B.S. Aerospace Engineering, magna cum laude