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“I have sat on every side of a patent: as the named inventor, as the attorney who drafted it, and as the litigator who fought over it.”
John Roberts · Registered Patent Attorney, USPTO Reg. No. 50,453
John Roberts
Most patent attorneys came up through paper. This practice came up through shop floors, drafting boards, federal courtrooms, and a company P&L. Every stop on this timeline shows up in how your patent gets written.
Before the law degree, before the engineering degree, there was a wrench. Years spent diagnosing and rebuilding machines built a mechanic's instinct for how things actually work, and how they fail.
Earned while working co-op assignments in high volume powdered metal manufacturing with Mitsubishi Metals, flow measurement systems with Endress+Hauser, including on site in an underground mine, and tool design for a Rockwell Automation company.
When Saab 900 production shut down over an unidentified noise, a large team of engineers went hunting. A first year engineer and a colleague built the mathematical model that found it, then invented and implemented the cure. Parts he designed run in millions of vehicles today.
Named inventor · U.S. Patent No. 5,469,929Designed aerospace style sealing systems for automotive and industrial applications, including key parts for GM's famous LS series V8 engines, and added $7 million in sales to a $20 million division as a design and sales engineer.
Recruited into Lyon & Lyon, one of the country's storied IP firms, drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the medical device, wireless, and electro-mechanical arts while researching arguments in patent litigation with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
Well over 100 federal IP litigations around the country, including matters involving K-Swiss, Target, Puma, FTD, ProFlowers, St. Jude Medical, Guidant, Dish Network, Kyocera, and Frito-Lay. Led a five attorney team defending a $20 million patent suit to a favorable settlement. Co-counsel for the plaintiff in a trademark action that produced a public $30 million settlement. This is where you learn, claim by claim, what survives a fight and what does not.
Drafting, prosecuting, and licensing mission critical mechanical, electro-mechanical, and medical device patents for inventors and businesses across the country, including a recent $6.17 million Lanham Act judgment in federal court.
Ran sourcing, engineering, marketing, and operations for a wholesale automotive electronics business. Sitting in the client's chair, with a product to protect and a budget to defend, is why this firm quotes one number instead of an hourly rate.
Everything above, distilled into one system: a worldwide search before you spend real money, a straight Green, Yellow, or Red recommendation, and a flat fee that carries qualifying cases through an expedited filing to issuance or final office action.
The fastest way to judge a patent attorney is to look at what he has patented. A small sample, all public record, all real products. There are many more.
Consumer products, sporting goods, garden tools, water systems, safety equipment, musical accessories. If your invention is a real, physical thing, it has company here. See the full portfolio.
You will not spend your consultation explaining how a cam follower works. An attorney who has designed production parts understands your product the way you do, and writes a specification that proves it.
Having been the client, with his own name on a patent and his own money in a product company, he built the process he wished existed: fixed prices, straight answers, no meter running.
Years of federal courtroom work over other people's patents taught exactly where weak claims break. Yours get drafted with that day in mind, whether or not it ever comes.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different.
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