Welcome To My Site

I help businesses manage the legal risks associated with building something new:

	Protecting inventions, content, and business information with Intellectual Property (patent, copyright, trademark, etc.)

	Structuring complex commercial relationships with Contracts

	Navigating business formation, regulations, and other issues that slow startup and growth

I am a veteran business advisor, transactional attorney, and U.S. patent attorney with over 10 years of corporate, law firm, and consulting experience. I enjoy supporting local clients in Central New York State, but my practice is virtual and international in scope.

I offer Fixed Fee Pricing with defined deliverables so that my clients know what to expect and how much it will cost before we start a project. For growing businesses with recurring legal needs, I offer Virtual In-House Counsel services to manage intellectual property, contract, compliance, or litigation projects and support day-to-day operations until permanent legal staff can be justified. My goal is to be a flexible and responsive member of my clients’ business teams, providing feedback within 24 hours of any request and guaranteeing the business value of my work.

I am currently seeking new clients who are startup or growth companies involving new products, services, technology or media with a combination of intellectual property, contract, and general business issues. I want to help entrepreneurs and innovative companies start and grow great businesses.

About Client Resources

Client Resources are PDF downloads for people to read, save for future reference, share with others, etc. They are primarily short articles on various legal topics. I plan to add a new resource each month. So please check back. If you have an idea for a topic you would like me to cover, please e-mail me.

Resource Of The Month

Should I File a Provisional Patent Application?

The Situation:

You have a prototype of your invention that works. You want patent protection, but you don’t have enough money to file for a full utility patent yet. Your next step is to start talking to potential customers, suppliers, and investors to sound out the market, develop your business plan, and hopefully get some money in the door. Is it worth filing a provisional patent application?

This Client Resource is a 2 page PDF article to help entrepreneurs and startups consider whether filing a provisional patent application makes sense and how to do it effectively. To go directly to the PDF rather than the landing page, click here.