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

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.

NOTICE: US PATENT RULE CHANGES - ON HOLD PENDING LITIGATION

August 21, 2007: The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Published Changes to Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, and Examination of Claim in Patent Applications (the "New Rules"), most of which had an effective date of November 1, 2007.  THEN, on October 31, 2007, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a Preliminary Injunction enjoining the USPTO form implementing the New Rules. Patent practitioners and patent applicants are encouraged to review these changes at www.uspto.gov and may link to an overview of these changes, some of which are presently applicable at www.mypatentpending.com. 

 

DISCERNING, INNOVATIVE CLIENTS: Dr. Michael Blaine Brooks is one of the few patent attorneys you may meet who holds a PhD in engineering from UCLA, is a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer, 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. Michael Blaine Brooks established the present law firm over six years ago in Calabasas, California to provide the Greater Los Angeles region 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. As an experienced patent attorney and professional electrical engineer, Dr. Brooks founded the firm 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 possess substantial technical education  and have ample practical and high-tech engineering experience as well. That is also why each intellectual property law lawyer is the kind of patent attorneys who readily absorbs technical specifications and protocols, system and device design and development, programming languages, 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 ), has 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-fiing 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 Federal Circuit Opinion Affects Business Methods and Patents implemented via software, October 30, 2008: Before claims directed to a method or a process can be examined for novelty and non-obviousness, each claim must tie the method to a machine OR transform elements or represenations of those elements addressed within the claim. Patent practitioners and patent applicants are encouraged to review the opinion of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and may link to an overview of the Court's opinion at www.mypatentpending.com.

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), US International Search Fee Changes

Effective November 9, 2007: The US Patent Office will eliminate the reduction in international serach fees for PCT applicants designating the US as their International Search Authority and having a prior-filed US non-provisional patent application AND the new search fee will be $1,800.  Patent practitioners and patent applicants are encouraged to review these changes posted by the USPTO and may link to an overview of these changes at www.mypatentpending.com.

NEW LOCATION:  From its new 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 301Z, 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 and particularly in Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Orange County and San Diego County of California and 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 ATTORNEY

Patent attorney Dr. Michael Brooks assists clients internationally (Canada, Europe & Asia), domestically (United States, from California 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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