Oregon IP Attorney & Registered Patent Attorney

Expertise & Case Areas

Practical IP and AI counsel—so you can keep building while I protect what’s next.
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Core IP

Patents

Patent Drafting & Filing

Provisional, utility, and design applications with claims aligned to your roadmap. Full USPTO filing and foreign coordination.

Patent Prosecution

Office actions, examiner interviews, continuations/divisionals/CIPs, and allowance strategy to keep momentum.

Patentability & FTO

Prior-art searches, patentability opinions, and freedom-to-operate/clearance to de-risk launches.

Portfolio & Transactions

Portfolio build-out, competitive mapping, valuation snapshots, licensing and deal support.

Trademarks

Clearance & Knockout Searches

USPTO, state, and common-law checks with risk calls and filing strategy.

Trademark Filing & Prosecution

TEAS filings, specimens, IDs, Office Actions, and ITU/SOU/extension workflow.

Monitoring & Enforcement

Watching services, marketplace/social takedowns, cease-and-desist, and pragmatic settlements.

TTAB Matters

Oppositions, cancellations, extensions, and evidence strategy aligned to your brand plan.

Copyright

Copyright Registration

Single & group registrations for software, media, and marketing assets with best-evidence deposits.

DMCA & Enforcement

DMCA notices/counter-notices, platform complaints, and settlement frameworks that resolve disputes quickly.

Content & Software Licensing

Work-for-hire, contributor agreements, and inbound/outbound licenses for compliant growth.

Fair Use & Risk Reviews

Publication risk calls and practical guidance on transformative use and commentary/education.

AI & Emerging Tech

AI Legal Services

AI Product Compliance & Risk Readiness

Readiness checks against EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF/GenAI profile. You get gap lists, prioritized fixes, internal policy, model cards, impact/risk assessments, and partner-ready playbooks.

AI Data, Training-Set & Content Licensing

Clean rights to scrape/buy data. Publisher/dataset licenses, contributor agreements, output terms, and safe-harbor language for synthetic data; copyright plans for human-authored parts.

Copyright for AI-Assisted Works

Go/no-go calls on registrability, correct AI-use disclosures, filing tactics to preserve human authorship, and appeals where warranted.

AI Inventorship & Patent Strategy

Claim drafting for AI-assisted inventions, correct inventorship, smart disclosure practice, and filing roadmaps for models, workflows, and applied systems.

AI in Hiring & HR Audits

Bias-audit readiness, notices, vendor terms, and deployment memos for AEDT-style rules—useful for Oregon employers hiring nationwide (incl. NYC).

Generative AI Marketing & FTC Substantiation

Pre-release claim review, substantiation files, required disclosures, reviews/endorsements hygiene, and “hot-claim” response plans.

Deepfakes, Voice Clones & Publicity Rights

Consent frameworks, takedown/enforcement playbooks, and product terms that keep user features legal; voice/likeness strategy (e.g., ELVIS-style coverage).

Healthcare AI & FDA Pathways

Device classification calls, PCCP strategies for adaptive models, submission checklists, and post-market change plans for SaMD.

AI Safety, Security & Incident Response

Red-team/eval clauses in vendor deals, misuse/abuse playbooks, and documentation mapped to NIST GenAI profile expectations.

Open-Source AI, Model Licenses & API Terms

Clearance for open models/datasets, attribution practices, and business terms for shipping a model/API—rate limits, safety gates, and downstream responsibility.

AI in Contracts & Commercial Deals

Master terms covering training on customer data, confidentiality of prompts/outputs, SLAs for model drift, and tailored indemnities.

AI for Kids & Schools

COPPA and student-data mapping, guardian disclosures, and approval plans that pass school-district reviews.

AI Governance for Startups

Lightweight policy and approval flows that match reality, clear roles/record-keeping, and board-friendly updates referencing NIST GenAI profile.

Creator/Influencer & Studio AI Packages

Licenses for training/cloning, provenance/watermark language, and fast takedowns for unauthorized clones across streaming/socials.

AI Ethics & Impact Statements (Public Sector)

Procurement-ready disclosures, risk mitigations, and compliance matrices aligned to current public frameworks—so bids don’t die on paperwork.

Industries

Where My Background Helps Most

Software & Internet

Apps, SaaS, AI/ML workflows, automation.

Electronics & Hardware

Embedded systems, sensors, wearables, IoT.

Medical & Health Tech

Devices, diagnostics, digital health.

Mechanical Systems

Mechanisms, tools, robotics, manufacturing.

Energy & Sustainability

Clean-tech, efficiency, control & monitoring.

Consumer Products

D2C products and e-commerce innovations.