The Initial Consultation & Your Intellectual Property

We look at each new client through a wide lens from beginning to end.  From starting a new venture to ongoing operations, we want to identify and protect your intellectual property while creating a plan of action that fits in your needs and budget.  

We would be happy to answer general questions with every potential client.  However, questions regarding patent, trademark and copyright law quickly move into providing substantive legal advice. 

Providing substantive legal advice to ensure a client makes informed decisions requires time, knowledge and occasional research. 

You should be serious about your business and you want an attorney who  is going to be honest and objective about your legal matters.  The majority of experienced patent attorneys charge for their time and their advice.  

In contrast, many free consultations are not even handled by a patent attorney but rather a sales representative.  A free consultation is in many cases nothing more than a high pressured sales pitch attempting to push services on you that you may not even need.  

All of our work is handled "in-house" and we never farm any searches or legal work out to subcontractors.  We believe this creates a better work product, especially with regard to the thoroughness of our patent searches and trademark searches. In addition, keeping all searches and legal work  "in-house" greatly reduces the chance of your invention and/or trade secrets ending up in the hands of a third-party.