The Law Offices of Herbert T Patty is a law firm uniquely positioned to provide strategic patent and intellectual property services. Located in Silicon Valley’s technology and venture capital community, our firm leverages technical, business, and legal expertise to help budding companies transform business concepts into industry-leading enterprises.

Our Firm offers a wide range of intellectual property services for patent, trademark, copyright, licensing, and trade secret matters. Our professionals are capable of drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a number of technologies such as electrical, semiconductor, telecommunications, networking, software, medical, and mechanical areas. Our professionals also have experience in patent portfolio analysis and management, patent licensing, patent counseling, and litigation support.

The Law Office of Herbert T. Patty is committed to working within the budgetary goals of our clients. Our professionals strive to understand our client’s financial expectations and objectives before working on a particular matter.

Our firm is uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology, business, and law. Principals at the Firm have extensive technical experience and counsel clients on the legal and business impact of their matters. Whether it is helping individuals license their inventions or advising individuals on the best way to protect business trade secrets, our Firm can help individuals and entities meet their specific needs.

Herbert T. Patty, Esq. is a Registered Patent Attorney licensed to practice law in California and licensed to represent inventors and companies before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).

Mr. Patty has over ten years of Intellectual Property (IP) experience which includes drafting and filing patent applications, filing and prosecuting trademark applications, licensing IP assets and managing trade secret matters

Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Patty worked as a process engineer at Intel’s high-volume- manufacturing factory in Chandler, Arizona. Later, Mr. Patty transferred to Intel’s legal department where he performed patent licensing and patent prosecution duties. Mr. Patty has also worked for boutique IP firms in Silicon Valley working primarily on licensing, patent prosecution, and pre-litigation matters.

Mr. Patty graduated from Georgia Tech (class of 1999) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and from Santa Clara University’s School of Law (Class of 2007) with a Juris Doctor degree and certificate in High Technology Law.

Known to family and friends as “Teddy,” he currently works and resides in San Jose, California.

The Law Office of Herbert T. Patty has both legal and scientific expertise to handle various intellectual property (“IP”) matters for the constantly changing information and communication technologies. Professionals at our firm have experience in electrical, electro-mechanical, mechanical, communications, software, computer systems, optical technologies, and other technologies.

In addition, we offer in-depth knowledge of medical devices, fluid and thermodynamics, heat transfer, system-level electronics, advanced materials, virtual reality systems, and other computer-related inventions. We bring depth, scope, and creativity to our domestic and international law practice.

We also provide a full range of portfolio management services. Always aware of clients’ business needs, we apply our worldwide experience to help our clients decide which inventions to patent, where to obtain patent protection, and when to maintain those patents.

Clients have turned to our firm for trademark and copyright guidance and representation. We carefully identify our clients’ IP, devise strategies for selection and clearance, and look for innovative ways to ensure that their marks, creative works, and other materials are protected.

To protect a company’s creative and intellectual capital, legal counsel must effectively prosecute applications for trademarks in every jurisdiction where the company does business. To assist in this effort, we have a team of skilled professionals with a collective of diverse experiences.

Our firm assists clients to establish brand and media licensing programs, patent and technology transfer ventures, service businesses, and software or data licensing initiatives for multiple distribution channels. We work with clients to identify key patents, analyze infringement, and quantify infringement exposure. Many licensing programs are built around instances of known infringement.

Likewise, companies must ensure that their own activities do not give rise to assertions of misappropriating trade secrets from others. These issues are particularly important today as joint ventures, partnerships, and confidential relationships with employees, customers, and vendors have become standard procedures for growing businesses.