Patent strategy
Patentability, filing sequence, disclosure timing, ownership, portfolio priorities, and coordination with product and commercial plans.
Patent services overviewCognivito services
Patent and IP services for technology, brands, creative work, and ownership
Cognivito provides defined-scope legal work across the intellectual-property lifecycle, with patent services as the primary practice and Federal Innovation Counsel as a separate specialty.
Written and reviewed by Stewart Myers, Oregon attorney and registered patent attorney · Last reviewed
Primary practice
Patent strategy, applications, prosecution, and portfolios
Short answer: patent counsel helps translate a technical contribution into a filing and claim strategy that accounts for prior art, disclosure timing, inventorship, ownership, product evolution, competitors, and budget.
Provisional applications
Early U.S. filing strategy and drafting with attention to disclosure support and the later nonprovisional plan.
Provisional servicesUtility applications
Preparation and prosecution for qualifying functional inventions and technical improvements.
Utility servicesDesign applications
Drawing-led protection for the ornamental appearance of an article of manufacture.
Design servicesBrands, creative work, and transactions
Related IP pathways
Trademark services
Selection and clearance, federal applications, USPTO prosecution, maintenance, monitoring, ownership changes, and selected disputes.
Explore trademark servicesCopyright, licensing, and ownership
Registration, assignments, defined licenses, chain-of-title review, recordation, takedown work, and selected enforcement communications.
Explore copyright and IP agreementsSeparate specialty
Federal Innovation Counsel
When federal awards, inventions, patent families, reporting, ownership, and commercialization must be understood together, use the Federal Innovation Counsel pathway. Its pages, Portfolio Review, and intake remain separate from Cognivito's primary Patent & IP flow.
Visit Federal Innovation CounselScope and professional boundaries
Each matter begins with fit, conflicts, and a written engagement.
Cognivito evaluates the legal issue, jurisdiction, competence, capacity, conflicts, requested timing, and professional-responsibility requirements before accepting work. Federal patent matters may be handled nationwide subject to applicable rules. State-law matters outside Oregon may require association with or referral to other counsel.
No website description is a promise of acceptance, timing, cost, or outcome. Government filing fees, searches, drawings, foreign counsel, specialists, and other third-party costs may be separate.
Primary sources
Official starting points
These agency materials support the general service distinctions summarized here; they do not decide a particular matter.
Start with the IP asset, the business trigger, and the timing.
Keep the first message nonconfidential. Cognivito will assess conflicts, fit, and the appropriate scope.