Washington, DC Patent Attorney
The Law Office of Michael E. Kondoudis is a law firm that focuses exclusively on patents, trademarks, and copyrights. We help individuals, businesses, and clients of other law firms to protect their patentable inventions. We also help international law firms prosecute patents in the United States. We are located in Washington, DC, just minutes from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and our principal, Michael Kondoudis, is a Washington, DC patent attorney.
PATENT AND TRADEMARK LAW - OUR EXCLUSIVE FOCUS
A Fixed Fee Intellectual Property Law Firm
Representing U.S. and International Businesses and Law Firms
Contact: 202.349.9850
E-mail: mkondoudis (at) mekiplaw.com
We are a law firm focused exclusively on patent, trademark, and copyright law. These specialties are collectively known as "intellectual property" or "IP" and Information about each of these areas of IP law, as well as their strategic use, is located in our Patent Practice Areas. We specialize in intellectual property protection and have experience prosecuting applications for inventions in the mechanical, optical, electrical, computer hardware, and semiconductor arts.
Representative Technologies:
- Electrical devices
- Telecommunications
- Optics and Optical systems
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Wireless technologies
- Disk drives
- Robotics
- Signal processing
- Consumer electronics
- Optical recognition systems
- Hydraulics
- Printers and photocopiers
Our services include US patent prosecution, US trademark prosecution, drafting intellectual property opinions, and international patent prosecution through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and its two phases, the PCT international patent phase and the PCT national patent phase.
In addition, Mr. Kondoudis is the author of Patentably Defined, a leading patent prosecution blog regularly read by thousands of patent practitioners from all over the world. Selected posts from Patentably Defined are available here.
If you are looking for information about our popular fixed fee trademark filing services, follow this link to more information.
IT IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE AND COST-EFFECTIVE SERVICE
Our Client List Includes Businesses and Law Firms from the Following Countries:
- Canada
- China
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Israel
- Japan
- Korea
- Mexico
- Norway
- Poland
- United Kingdom
- United States
What are you looking for in a law firm? If you are an individual or small business, most likely it is assistance from a patent attorney who is knowledgeable, who responds to you, and who treats your patent needs as important. If you are a law firm, you are most likely seeking straightforward, efficient, and skilled patent counsel. These are our goals.
We provide large-firm expertise, with small-firm service and attention and rely on fixed fees wherever possible. To learn more about our patent, trademark, and copyright practice, select any of the topics listed above or contact us.
For example, while we serve clients across the United States and in foreign countries, our Washington, D.C. office location gives us access to the patent examiners at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for filing needs, hearings, and personal interviews with patent examiners. Our location and experience make such interviews extremely economical, and serve to speed prosecution and narrow issues quickly, thereby saving the client prosecution costs over the long-run. This is an advantage to being a patent attorney in Washington, DC.
Experienced Guidance From A Business Perspective
Patent laws are complex. Significant skill, technical acumen, and experience are required to navigate the intricacies of patent law. You need an experienced guide to give you direction and focus. We can provide that direction and focus.
If you are a business, we will help you identify and prioritize your potential patent assets; execute a pragmatic, strategic plan to secure broad protections for those assets; and leverage those assets to meet your business objectives.
If you are a law firm, we will help you represent your clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a pragmatic, cost-effective manner applying all of our experience. In fact, we are "of counsel" to several other law firms whose clients require a DC patent attorney.
If you are interested in working with us, please complete the contact form below. We welcome your interest. However, please note that sending a communication does not in and of itself create an attorney-client relationship. You should refrain from sending private and/or confidential information until an attorney-client relationship has been established.
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Recent Patent News
November 8, 2011 - The USPTO and China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) have signed a Joint Statement of Intent to launch two new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot programs on December 1, 2011. These pilot programs will apply to qualifying patent applications filed under both the Paris Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The one-year pilot programs will end on November 30, 2012. Both offices may extend the one year trial period by mutual agreement. The goals of the PPH pilot programs are to gauge the interest of applicants and to evaluate the programs for patent quality, efficiency and the reduction of the Offices' workloads.
On September 16, 2011, the America Invents Act (AIA) was signed into law and introduced substantial changes to the United States patent laws. Over the next 18 months, various provisions of the AIA will go into effect requiring patent practitioners, applicants, and patentees to revise their practices and strategies for patent preparation, prosecution, protection and enforcement. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has introduced an informational page on its website to provide direct information about the implementation of this very important legislation.
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