Craig A. Neugeboren
Craig A. Neugeboren is the founder and a Shareholder of Neugeboren O’Dowd PC. He started the firm after spending 15 years as a design engineer and as an attorney in both private practice and as in-house counsel for a multi-national publicly traded company. Craig is a patent attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice law in California and Colorado. He is also admitted to practice in many district and appeal courts throughout the country.
Sean R. O’Dowd
Sean’s practice focuses on intellectual property, with a particular emphasis in the areas of patent counseling and procurement, patent licensing, and support of litigation and transactional matters. Sean has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications covering a spectrum of technologies including cellular telephony, semiconductor fabrication, Internet software, network architecture and management; anti-spyware software; renewable energy and wireless local area networking.
Shane C. Percival
Shane obtains, manages, and enforces intellectual property assets for clients. Whether the client is involved with consumer products, SAAS, data-processing, or finance, Shane ensures their ideas, designs, and brands are secured world-wide. Shane also prevent others from using these secured assets. By integrating himself within the executive, development, design, and/or marketing teams and working closely with in-house counsel, together we proactively assess the needs of the client to determine the proper scope of protection. We then establish a plan to reach our goals. Shane uses his experience as an engineer and project manager at both large and startup companies, together with 10+ years of experience as an IP attorney. He is able to uniquely guide the client around many pitfalls associated with managing intellectual property.
Steve Gruber
Steve Gruber is a Partner with Neugeboren O’Dowd PC and is a patent attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and to practice law in Colorado. Steve counsels clients of all sizes with an eye toward maximizing not just product coverage, but also the value of the company. His portfolio strategy focuses on attracting investors, deterring knockoffs, and seizing market share. Steve analyzes each invention as well as the product, market, and business’s unique goal for each product to develop a strategy for each invention that combines provisional applications, clearance and prior art searches, non-provisional applications, Track 1 prioritized examination, international protection, and trade secret protection.
Carolyn Juarez
Carolyn Juarez is an experienced attorney focused on representing business and individuals in civil litigation, commercial disputes, litigation avoidance, and intellectual property matters. She has substantial experience representing clients in state and federal courts in a variety of areas including breach of contract and license; counterfeit goods; false advertising; unfair competition; patent, copyright, and trademark infringement; and misappropriation of trade secrets. She advises clients on the selection, clearance, adoption, and use of trademarks; domestic and international trademark prosecution; and trademark portfolio management.
Emma Harty
Emma is an experienced intellectual property attorney in trademark portfolio management, transactional matters, due diligence, patent prosecution and clearance. She also has substantial experience representing clients in a variety of litigation matters, including patent, copyright, and trademark infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. She researches and analyzes technologies to understand their strengths and pitfalls to help clients obtain patent protection. She additionally advises clients throughout the trademark process, including clearing trademarks, and filing domestically and abroad.
Drew Smith
Drew counsels clients to develop and implement effective IP strategies, with a particular focus on patent prosecution, invention harvesting, and managing patent portfolios. He has prepared and successfully prosecuted hundreds of patents in the electrical, computer, software, and mechanical engineering fields, including many projects related to communication systems and networks, integrated circuits, and aerospace technologies. Drew also assists with clearance and prior art searches, licensing agreements, and litigation support.
Sammit Nene
Sammit Nene is a patent agent with Neugeboren O’Dowd PC and he focuses on drafting and prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications covering a wide variety of technologies, with a particular emphasis on the electronics, mechanical, and computer-related arts. He works with our attorneys in analyzing novel and inventive concepts of our client’s inventions prior to drafting patent applications. He also assists in developing detailed strategies, including potential claim amendments, for responding to office actions from US and international patent offices.
Yoriko Morita
Yoriko specializes in creating and executing tailored IP strategies for early stage hardware companies with complicated technologies. She started working in patent prosecution in 1996, became a U.S. Registered Patent Agent since 2001, and has been working with and within startups her entire legal career, including starting three companies of her own in the past. Yoriko holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Optics emphasis), an M.B.A., and a B.A. in Physics, and is also a Certified Licensing Professional, recognized by the Licensing Executives Society. She has native fluency in both English and Japanese, as well as extensive experience working and negotiating in Asia.
René Roskam
René assists in the prosecution and maintenance of US and International trademark and patent portfolios. This includes working with our attorneys in creating, preparing, and filing legal documents associated with the registration and application processes and continued maintenance of our client’s intellectual property portfolios. René’s responsibilities include docketing, generating reports, receiving and processing communications from the patent and trademark office, communicating with clients and foreign counsel, monitoring registrations and renewals, and conducting research and analysis relating to patent and trademark matters.
Shannon Gallagher
Shannon joined the firm in 2018 and provides cross disciplinary support to all of our professionals as well as our back-office manager and outside consultants. Shannon also assists in the prosecution and maintenance of US and International trademark and patent portfolios and assists our attorneys and paralegals in creating, preparing, and filing legal documents associated with our client’s patent and trademark portfolios.
Lindsey Spallone
Lindsey has been in IP law since 2014 and assists in the prosecution and maintenance of US and International trademark and patent portfolios. She assists our attorneys in creating, preparing, and filing legal documents associated with the registration and application processes and continued maintenance of our client’s intellectual property portfolios. Lindsey’s responsibilities include docketing, generating reports, receiving and processing communications from the patent and trademark office, communicating with clients and foreign counsel, monitoring registrations and renewals, conducting research and analysis relating to patent and trademark matters, and assistance in litigation matters.
Cody Dobson
Cody assists in the prosecution and maintenance of US and International trademark and patent portfolios. This includes working with our attorneys in creating, preparing, and filing legal documents associated with the registration and application processes and continued maintenance of our client’s intellectual property portfolios. Cody’s responsibilities include docketing, generating reports, receiving and processing communications from the patent and trademark office, communicating with clients and foreign counsel, monitoring registrations and renewals, and conducting research and analysis relating to patent and trademark matters.
Barbara Westphal
Barbara assists in the prosecution and maintenance of US and International trademark and patent portfolios. This includes working with our attorneys in creating, preparing, and filing legal documents associated with the registration and application processes and continued maintenance of our client’s intellectual property portfolios. Barbara’s responsibilities include docketing, generating reports, receiving and processing communications from the patent and trademark office, communicating with clients and foreign counsel, monitoring registrations and renewals, and conducting research and analysis relating to patent and trademark matters.