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Len Watkins
Richmond, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Antitrust, Bankruptcy and Business
University of San Francisco School of Law
A resident of Oakland, Len spent much of his legal career with prestigious, top-ranked, San Francisco law firms. Mr. Watkins brings the same level of expertise, and standard of excellence, to his practice in the East Bay. Focusing on consumer bankruptcy and business law, Mr. Watkins’ depth of experience and training include:
A Masters of Business Administration, concentrating on finance, from the University of California, at Davis
A stock brokerage license (inactive) from the National Association of Securities Dealers
A California Real Estate Broker’s license
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Josetta Idelle Jones
Richmond, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 24 years of experience
IP
The George Washington University Law School and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
J Steven Svoboda
Richmond, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 27 years of experience
IP and Patents
Harvard Law School
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Kathleen Hunt
El Cerrito, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Communications and Entertainment & Sports
Hastings College of Law
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Richard Elliot Korb
Kensington, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 41 years of experience
IP, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Civil Rights
UC Hastings COL
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Steven Anton Nielsen
Larkspur, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 34 years of experience
IP and Patents
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
U.S. registered patent attorney with many years of experience in obtaining patents and obtaining favorable results in federal court in the field of intellectual properly litigation. Mr. Nielsen is the current chair person of the Intellectual Property Section of the Marin County Bar Association. For potential clients who are unable see Mr. Nielsen in Marin County, web conferences and/or telephone conferences are available. Mr. Nielsen currently serves clients located throughout the world.
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Vincent Tong
Oakland, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 11 years of experience
IP, Business, Employment and Trademarks
Santa Clara University School of Law
Vincent Tong is an award winning, community oriented lawyer. He is the founder of TONG LAW, an employment business law firm located in beautiful downtown Oakland, California. Vincent exclusively represents employees in employment litigation and businesses in business-to-business disputes. In his business transactions practice, Vincent counsels individuals on forming and growing their social ventures. Connect with Vincent online at www.tong-law.com.
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Antone F. Johnson
Berkeley, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Communications and Securities
Columbia Law School
For 24 years, Antone Johnson has served as lawyer, advisor, executive and advocate for emerging growth technology/digital media ventures, founders and investors in a diverse range of business and intellectual property matters. Raised in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, California, suffused with Silicon Valley's unique culture of innovation, he came of age professionally during the Internet explosion of the late 1990s, an entrepreneurial crucible of unprecedented wealth and job creation, reinvention of countless industries, and related venture capital and Wall Street dealmaking. Antone was fortunate to have a ringside seat at major Los Angeles and Silicon Valley law firms, followed...
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Greg L Beattie
Berkeley, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 42 years of experience
IP, Business and Securities
Harvard Law School
Greg Beattie practices corporate and technology law, and represents a broad spectrum of hardware, software and internet based companies, food and beverage companies including several wineries, cleantech/greentech companies and a variety of other distribution, retail, service, and manufacturing concerns, often serving as their general counsel. Greg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1980 (J.D., cum laude) and from Stanford University (highest honors) in 1976. His started his career at Cooley Godward, and has served as General Counsel of UB Networks, a pioneering Silicon Valley tech company, chair of the Venture and Technology Practice Group at Reed Smith,...
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Eric Sternberger
San Rafael, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 23 years of experience
IP, Business, International and Real Estate
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Eric Sternberger is a partner of Ragghianti Freitas LLP. Mr. Sternberger acts as outside general counsel to corporations, LLC's and partnerships with an emphasis on business and corporate transactions including entity selection, succession planning, joint ventures, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, secured financing, licensing, and real estate matters. His representative clients include technology and intellectual property driven companies, shipping, construction, advertising/branding, web based, and the real estate and healthcare industries. Mr. Sternberger's business counseling also includes advising directors, officers, and managers regarding business strategies, consensus building and corporate governance. Additionally, he advises shareholders and LLC interest holders regarding...
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Eric Francis Pierson
Oakland, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 24 years of experience
IP, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Employment
Stanford University
Eric Pierson is a practical and results-oriented generalist attorney with over twenty years of law firm and in-house experience and a proven track record of success as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor.
Prior to starting his own firm, Eric spent over twelve years in-house in New York as a corporate generalist and lead U.S. attorney supporting the Americas division of Mitsui, a Fortune Global 500 Japanese multinational conglomerate. Previously he practiced at San Francisco-based McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen and its successor firm, Bingham McCutchen, for ten years, primarily as a litigator focused on intellectual property and contract...
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George Joseph Frost
Berkeley, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 27 years of experience
IP, Antitrust, Business and Communications
UC Hastings COL
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Jann Stanley Moorhead
San Rafael, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 26 years of experience
IP
Columbia Univ School of Law
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Doug Bend
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfIP, Business, Real Estate and Trademarks
Georgetown University Law Center
Doug is the founder of Bend Law Group, PC, a boutique law firm focused on advising small businesses and startups and BLG Properties, a real estate firm that helps buyers and sellers in the Bay Area.
Doug has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, Time, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Fox Business, MSN, Inc., Time and VentureBeat, has a 10/10 Avvo score and was selected to the SuperLawyers "Rising Stars” lists for having demonstrated excellence in the practice of law.
Prior to opening Bend Law Group, PC, Doug was a corporate attorney for a law firm in New York City....
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Pierre Zado
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business and Communications
Valparaiso University
Astute business professional with a track record of influencing, negotiating, supporting and interacting with senior management. Excels at resolving complex issues, developing critical business solutions, and delivering robust analysis and guidance. For the last 10 years, I've counseled clients on various technology and intellectual property matters. Participated in six acquisitions (4 for buyer and two as target) with an aggregate deal value over $10 billion.
As a business professional, I've been involved and/or responsible for managing deal flow and partnership agreements spanning across IOT, Fintech, Logistics, Medical and Enterprise 3.0 industries totaling approximately $100 million over the last 7 years....
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Steve Charles Vondran
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfIP, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
Whittier Coll School of Law
Our law firm is a leader in intellectual property and piracy law. We have handled more software audits and torrent defense lawsuits than most other firms combined. We have a niche speciality practice in copyright infringement law and handle the following types of cases:
1. Software Audits and Licensing Disputes (Business Software Alliance, BSA, SIIA, Vero, Siemens, Solidworks, Autodesk, Adobe and Microsoft)
2. Torrent Defense Cases (ex. Malibu Media pornography, Flava Works and Strike 3 Holdings, LLC BitTorrent litigation cases in California Federal Court in the Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern District)
3. TV Signal Piracy cases (boxing...
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Feras Mousilli
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Communications
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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Lindsay Gunn Spiller
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 36 years of experience
(415) 991-7298
595 Pacific Avenue
Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94133
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Estate Planning
Georgetown University Law Center
Spiller Law is a business, estate planning and entertainment law firm located in San Francisco, California.
Business:
We serve small to medium-sized businesses in the areas of contracts, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, partnership agreements, corporate formation and dispute resolution. We have advised businesses in involved in aviation, finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, music, film, and television.
Estate Planning:
We work with individuals and couples to create simple to sophisticated estate plans, depending on their needs.
Entertainment Law:
We advise film/TV, new media, and music clients as to business planning, business formation, contract negotiation, and licensing
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Marin Cionca
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfIP, Patents and Trademarks
Concord Law School
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 trademarks, trade secrets and other IP. Further, he defends his clients when they are...
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Kevin R. Martin
Oakland, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Appeals, Business and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
Over his 18 years of practice in the Bay Area, Kevin Martin has developed a reputation as a fair- minded but tough negotiator representing client’s interests in intellectual property, business, real estate and personal injury actions. Kevin’s practice includes trademark, copyright and patent litigation, prosecution, licensing, business disputes, commercial litigation, personal injury claims, employer/employee disputes, trade secret and unfair competition claims, real estate litigation, contract disputes, and general advice and counsel. Mr. Martin maintains a regular blog on legal and other issues at www.landshark5000.wordpress.com. Mr. Martin regularly appears in both State and Federal Courts throughout California, before the Trademark...
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Michael Mortimer
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 29 years of experience
P.O. Box 2342
San Francisco, CA 94126
IP
Univ of Oregon School of Law
Former prosecutor, combat veteran (USCG), complex dispute resolution, competitive business litigation, depositions, trials, law and motion, appeals.
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Andrew John Chan
Concord, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 13 years of experience
IP, Construction, Insurance Defense and Legal Malpractice
University of Miami School of Law
Andrew is a senior counsel in the Oakland/East Bay office of Ericksen Arbuthnot and co-chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. He is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star by Thomson Reuters. Andrew has extensive litigation experience representing individual and institutional clients in state and federal court. His areas of practice include insurance coverage and defense, intellectual property, personal injury, professional liability, real estate, and other commercial issues.
Andrew has B.A. degrees in Cognitive Science and History, and a minor in Philosophy, from the...
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Robin D. Gross
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San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 23 years of experience
IP, Business, Family and Trademarks
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Mr. Ronnie R Gipson Jr
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 17 years of experience
IP, Business and Insurance Defense
University of San Francisco School of Law
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Henry Murphy Burgoyne III
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 23 years of experience
IP, Business and Communications
Stanford University
Hank Burgoyne is an AV-rated counselor and litigator with more than a dozen years' experience advising technology and other businesses on commercial, intellectual property, advertising, speech, trade secret and data security issues. Hank has particular expertise in digital forensics and evidence, and in licensing, outsourcing, development and similar technology-related transactions.
Hank has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in some of California's most important Internet-related advertising cases, both at the trial court level and before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. A former reporter and newsroom lawyer, Hank counsels clients on copyright, defamation, trademark, privacy and other communications-related issues, and has...
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Drexel Andrew Bradshaw
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Divorce and Real Estate
St. Thomas University
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Ansel Jay Halliburton
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Communications and Trademarks
University of California, Davis, School of Law
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Vivek H. Vaidya
10.0
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Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfSan Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 6 years of experience
IP and Trademarks
University of San Francisco School of Law
I provide legal counsel surrounding intellectual property, brand protection and creative content, including the life-cycle of trademarks and copyrights, from registration and licensing to enforcement.
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Richard Bennett Salles
Walnut Creek, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
Univ of Oregon School of Law
Richard is a USPTO Registered Patent Attorney who loves helping creative people realize their dreams. Rich received his BA from Princeton University, and then completed his physics coursework at San Francisco State University. Rich received his J.D. with Honors from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he received a Certificate in Intellectual Property for his coursework in patent infringement. Rich has a technical background in electronics, solid state and integrated circuits. Rich has practiced in patent litigation and military law, having served as an Army JAG Corps Captain stateside and overseas. After passing the...
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Peter Tormey
Pleasant Hill, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 17 years of experience
IP, Business, Patents 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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Timothy Craig Williams
Walnut Creek, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 35 years of experience
(925) 933-9800
1850 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 340
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Construction and Real Estate
Pepperdine University School of Law
Mr. Williams is the founder of The Williams Firm and has over 21 years of extensive experience in the areas of real estate, construction, business and corporate law. Mr. Williams' practice areas include all aspects of civil litigation and dispute resolution in all courts, government hearings, arbitrations and mediations in the areas of real estate, construction and business law. Mr. Williams also represents and advises clients in business transactions, corporate law, real property transactions, and trademark law.
In real estate matters he has represented owners and developers of residential and commercial properties, including multi-million dollar properties, negotiated sales...
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Mark Anthony Pearson
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 16 years of experience
IP, Business and Entertainment & Sports
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
Mark A. Pearson is a founding partner at ARC Law Group (www.arclg.com), a law firm focused on counseling Creative, Talented and Entrepreneurial clients. His primary practice areas involve forming business entities, counseling on trademark & copyright issues, and drafting contracts for music, film & new media clients. His list of interesting and eclectic clients include entertainment industry tech firms, social media outlets, online content providers, film, radio & television producers, live entertainment companies, publishers and video game developers. Mark and his partner, Anne Yarovoy, have also been known to associate with various theater producers, musicians, industry execs,...
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David Jeanchung Tsai
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(415) 979-6900
Vinson & Elkins LLP
525 Market Street, Suite 2750
San Francisco, CA 94105
IP, Antitrust, Business and Patents
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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Karl Stephen Kronenberger
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 29 years of experience
IP and Business
Univ of Cincinnati COL
Karl Kronenberger is a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Kronenberger Rosenfeld, LLP. He is an intellectual property litigator and transactional attorney, and his sole and exclusive focus is on Internet, media and e-commerce disputes and transactions.
Karl has spoken as an Internet law expert on national television news programs such as MSNBC and ABC News, and he has appeared on various industry panels.
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Justin John Glyer
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 16 years of experience
IP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
Pepperdine University School of Law
Justin Glyer's practice focuses on media, entertainment, marketing, technology and commercial contracts, start-ups, copyright, trademark, content, internet, communications, privacy and general business law.
Mr. Glyer has conducted successful negotiations with digital media start-ups, artists, producers, movie studios, television networks, promoters, talent agencies, multi-channel internet distributors, record labels, publishers, software developers, internet service providers, social media companies, business development professionals, accounting firms, public speakers, job recruiters, universities and academics, advertisers, marketing, telecommunications and technology companies, insurance carriers and a wide range of other individuals and businesses from the very small to the Fortune 500.
As a long-time former business and legal...
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Terrance James Evans
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 19 years of experience
(415) 957-3130
One Market Plaza, Spear Tower
Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94105
IP, Antitrust, Appeals and Business
Loyola University School of Law
Terrance J. Evans is a partner in the Trial Practice Group of Duane Morris in San Francisco. He concentrates his practice in representing the financial services industry, which includes international, national and community banks; loan service companies; and insurance companies.
With respect to the insurance industry, Mr. Evans concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation and policy interpretation and analysis. He has represented commercial primary, excess and umbrella insurers in a wide range of multimillion-dollar cases, including declaratory relief, bad faith, rescission, subrogation, indemnity, additional insurance, interpleader and reformation actions.
In relation to the banking industry, Mr. Evans has represented international,...
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Kevin Brendan Murphy
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 42 years of experience
IP
University of San Francisco School of Law
Franchise attorney and court-accepted franchise expert with 35-years of experience in the franchise industry. Represents franchisors as well as franchisees in franchise litigation matters as well as Franchise Disclosure Document preparation and due diligence review. Also a franchise attorney who has started, owned and operated a very successful franchise. So I don't just "talk the talk" but have actually walked the walk. Author of over 30 publications including three books on franchising.
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Mr. Stuart James West P.E.
Walnut Creek, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 23 years of experience
IP and Patents
Golden Gate University School of Law
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William Nelson
Walnut Creek, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 10 years of experience
IP, Business, Patents 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.