Law Office of Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C. --Intellectual Property Law Counseling

News: On March 17, 2011, AeroVironment, Inc. (AV), was informed by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) that AV's Nano Hummingbird is now included in their Gallery of Notable Inventions.  The Nano Hummingbird joins the other 28 inventions of this Gallery; inventions that include an HIV Vaccine, Google, Segway and SpaceShipOne. As noted on their website, the criteria used by WIPO to select an invention for the Gallery is:

the “importance or contribution of the invention or inventor,” and

the “acknowledgment ... [of the invention] ... in the popular media.”

•   The patent attorneys of Michael Blaine Brooks, PC, are humbled to have had a part in this 21^st Century advancement.
  
  WIPO Gallery of Notable Inventions:
  
  http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/inventions/index.html
  
  Nano Hummingbird Gallery Page:
  
  http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/inventions/index.html

 

 

U.S. PATENTS ( UTILITY & DESIGN ), TRADEMARKS ( FEDERAL AND CALIFORNIA ), & U.S. COPYRIGHT REGISTRATIONS

As the technology officers and in-house patent counsels of innovative companies are all too aware, making efficient use of US and international patent law and procedure is critical to sustained growth and profitability. When looking to outside experts in patent law and procedure to prepare, file and prosecute their utility patents, these discerning innovators frequently find themselves driven to narrow those they rely on to patent attorneys possessing both the technical education and technical experience necessary to rapidly absorb and adequately assess and explain their innovations as multiple exemplary embodiments and with successively structured legal claims that are intended to maximize their company's prospective patent rights. To minimize their management burden and not unduly burden their inventors, these discerning innovators typically look to experienced patent attorneys with the technical background to readily adapt to their company's various fields of technical endeavor. 

 

NOTICE: If you arrived at this website as an inventor new to the patent system, please view the educational material provided by the US Patent Office: www.uspto.gov . The US Patent Office has recently posted an informative presentation for independent inventors new to the patent system.

Who we are:

Dr. Michael Blaine Brooks is one of the few patent attorneys you may meet who holds a PhD in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), is a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer in the state of California, a Senior Member of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ), and has led the in-house legal and R&D departments of a very high-tech company for several years. This company was based in San Diego with its scientists and engineers principally located in Los Angeles. While Dr. Brooks headed its intellectual property portfolio development in 1998-1999, this company became one of America's fastest growing, privately-held, high-technology corporations. Dr. Brooks was Adjunct Professor of Patent Law, Spring 2011 and Spring 2010, Pepperdine University School of Law. Dr. Michael Blaine Brooks established the present law firm over ten years ago in Calabasas, California, to provide the Greater Los Angeles region and most of Southern California with intellectual property services, particularly patent application drafting and prosecution services, seasoned by his technical, business and legal experiences gained in fast-paced, commercially exploitable and budget-directed high-tech innovations.

Jim K. Dawson, Esq., has been practicing intellectual property law for more than 15 years.  He has extensive experience drafting U.S. and international patent applications (“ PCT ” applications), Office Action responses, responses to Written Opinions and in providing guidance to foreign patent prosecution counsel.  He also performs US patent infringement and validity analysis; drafts and negotiates intellectual property licenses, and complex IP-related legal documents including: technology and product development agreements, service and consulting agreements, trademark licenses, non-disclosure agreements, and other agreements necessary to bring ideas successfully to market. Mr. Dawson holds his Juris Doctor from University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio, as part of their Program in Law and Technology.  He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Karol Pessin, Esq., heads our Life Sciences Department spanning innovations in biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmacological products, medical devices, and methods of medical treatment. Ms. Pessin received her Juris Doctor from University of California Berkeley's Boalt Hall. Her twenty-three years of legal experience includes trade secret litigation and patent prosecution practice at Lyon & Lyon, and her experience includes in-house practice at Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks, California, where her scope involved matters at the European Patent Office. In addition to being a skilled patent prosecutor, Ms. Pessin is adept at evaluating patent portfolios of our clients and/or their competitors, and integrating patent strategy into her client’s business strategy.

Pejman Yedidsion, Esq. , supports our clients in various technologies, some of which include electrical, electronic, and/or computing systems and processes. Mr. Yedidsion has extensive experience in telecommunication technologies, and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), and his Juris Doctor from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law.

 

DISCERNING, INNOVATIVE CLIENTS: As an experienced patent attorney, in-house IP counsel, general counsel, and professional electrical engineer, Dr. Brooks founded the firm in 2000 to compliment those business entities having a need for developing and refining their patent portfolios in support of well reasoned business objectives. The intent then and now remains to focus our patent and trademark practice around our technically innovative and creative clients, and by doing so provide a value-added boost to their efforts aimed at defining, refining and protecting their intellectual assets.

This is why, at the Law Office of Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C. , each patent attorney possesses substantial technical education  and has ample practical and high-tech engineering and/or scientific experience as well. That is also why each intellectual property law counselor and lawyer is the kind of patent attorney who readily absorbs technical specifications and protocols, system and device design and development, and troubleshooting techniques particularly those that may lead to further innovations. In addition, as a lawyer and technologist, each patent attorney applies the latest federal court cases to analyze unexpired patents for possible infringement and assess the effects that published documents may have on patentability of a purported invention.

EXPERIENCED WITH AN ARRAY OF TECHNOLOGIES: Review our Practice Areas web pages for some of the complex and highly innovative technologies for which we draft and prosecute patent applications to assess for yourself whether, as both a registered patent attorney and registered professional electrical engineer, Michael Brooks, PhD ( Engr. ), PE ( EE ), our life sciences patent attorney Karol Pessin, Esq., have extensive experience in understanding, addressing and protecting a wide array of technologies.

Numerous clients along the Pacific coast including those in the State of California, the Tech Forest of the States of Oregon and Washington, and those that are based in international commerce have sought our services to assist them with their patent needs , including: pre-filing patent services , patent prosecution , utility patent portfolio advice, patent licensing and related issues, patent infringement and patent right-to-operate opinions, and to provide support for your patent litigation team .

To discover first hand how we earned our reputation for integrity and expertise, contact our office of technically-trained, experienced patent lawyers  to schedule a confidential consultation by calling Toll Free: 1-866-LAW-PAT1 ( 1-866-529-7281 ) .

NOTICE: US Supreme Court, June 28, 2010: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's sole test for patent eligibility of a process, i.e., the machine-or-transformation test, was reduced by the US Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos from the sole test to an evaluative tool for determining patent eligibility. The Opinion immediately affects business methods and patents implemented via software. Before claims that are directed to a method or a process can be examined for novelty and non-obviousness, each claim must be directed to more than merely an abstract idea, law of nature, or mathematical formula. Patent practitioners and patent applicants are encouraged to review the opinion of the US Supreme Court.  In defining a patent-eligible process, the Court cited 35 USC §100(b) and the Court's "guidepost" opinions of Benson, Flook, and Diehr. The USPTO interim patent subject matter eligibility examination instructions issued on August 24, 2009 were superseded by the interim guidance published for comment on July 27, 2010.

PATENTS & TRADEMARKS: The bulk of the services provided by the Firm pertain to the preparation and prosecution of trademarks and complex patent applications for electrical, optical, mechanical, electro-mechanical, electronic, computer-based, network-based, and software-related inventions before the US Patent and Trademark Office. In collaboration with foreign patent attorneys and agents, the Firm prosecutes foreign patent applications and trademark registrations often via the Patent Cooperation Treaty ( PCT ) and, for trademarks, via the Madrid Protocol. The Firm is prepared to provide professional assistance to foreign entities so that their patent applications may enter the US national phase upon exiting the PCT process. The Firm is equally prepared to pursue federal registration of trademarks and servicemarks of foreign entities.

NOTICE: Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Application, Search Authority Designation

Please make note that in addition to the US Patent Office, the USPTO reminds us that the only International Search Authority competent, authorized, and willing to search all classes* of technology for a US-originating PCT application is the (South) Korean Intellectual Property Office.  

*Although KIPO is not obliged to search claims directed to methods of treatment (by surgery or therapy) tied to the human body, and is not obliged to search claims directed to diagnostic methods practiced on the human body.

 

 

NEW LOCATION:  From its location in the Executive Center of Simi Valley, Ventura County, California, the Firm continues to offer its client- focused manner of intellectual property practice especially for those seeking utility and design patents and trademark registrations. With our new location northeast of Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks, the Firm has improved freeway accessibility and parking for its regional and local clients while remaining minutes from Los Angeles and the Bob Hope Airport (Burbank).

Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C., 1445 East Los Angeles Avenue, Suite 208, Simi Valley, CA 93065

REGIONAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: While headquartered in Ventura County, the Firm provides its style of collaborative, cost-effective services principally to high-tech companies along the Pacific Coast, principally the southern counties of California, particularly corporations in Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Orange County and San Diego County. The Firm is proud that it prepares and prosecutes patent applications for Fortune 500 companies across the US as well as for the next newly-formed, micro-capitalized company down the street. The Firm is experienced with several of the major international intellectual property issues facing American companies doing businesses with foreign entities in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Kingdom of Sweden, Japan and the PRC. We would be happy to provide price sheets upon request for our services before the United States Patent and Trademark Office,  particularly for those businesses headquartered in: the United Kingdom ( utility and design patents and trademarks ); the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesrepublik Deutschland - patent ); French Republic ( République française - brevet ); the Italian Republic ( Repubblica Italiana - brevetto ); the Kingdom of Sweden ( Konungariket Sverige - patent ); Japan ( Nippon tokkyo patento 日本   特許    パテント) ; and the People's Republic of China ( 中华人民共和国      专利       中華人民共和國     專利 ). *

US REGISTERED PATENT ATTORNEYS

Patent attorneys Dr. Michael Brooks, Jim K. Dawson, Karol Pessin, and Pejman Yedidsion, assist clients internationally (Canada, Europe & Asia), domestically (United States, from California to the State of Washington, and to Washington, D.C.), and locally (California, including the cities of: Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley, Irvine, Newport Beach and the counties of Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Orange County, San Diego County, as well as throughout the Tech Forest of the Pacific Northwest, including Vancouver & Camas, Washington, and Portland, Oregon) with a variety of patent issues , including: utility patent prosecution , patent pre-filing services , patent infringement issues , and patent litigation support .

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