Christopher Alan Brown

Chris is a registered patent attorney. His practice involves all intellectual property topics, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and right of publicity analysis and infringement issues.

Chris concentrates on assisting clients of all sizes in developing of patent and trademark portfolios and has significant experience with medical and health-related companies. He helps small or startup companies with protection for core intellectual property assets, and reviews products for clearance over intellectual property rights of others. Specifically, he has obtained domestic and foreign trademark and patent protection in the health and life sciences, communications, mechanical arts and other fields. Chris also provides non-infringement, freedom to operate, and validity analyses and opinions concerning patent and trademark rights, as well as assistance with proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (such as patent interference, re-examination and reissue matters or trademark oppositions and cancellations) and with European patent opposition proceedings.