About Us

John D. Gugliotta, P.E., Esq.
Managing Partner

As a Registered Professional Engineer since 1985 and Registered Patent Attorney since 1993, John has been called by his various clients (in the U.S. and internationally) to assist in new product development, business development, and intellectual property protection in thousands of different projects and hundreds of different ways.

His clients are independent inventors, technology startups, and small- and medium-sized business that rely on new product design and development to prosper. They rely on John's expertise to identify potential landmines and pitfalls along the way and to help guide the process with sound advice: not just academic, letter of the law 'legal-ese,' but real-world legal advice designed with their particular business in mind.

For those interested in the basic resume:

 

  • Juris Doctorate, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, OH
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Bar Admissions:
    • United States Supreme Court
    • State of Ohio, Registration No. 0062809
    • Northern District of Ohio; Western District of Pennsylvania
    • United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 36,538
    • Professional Engineer, State of Ohio, Registration No. E-54503
  • Patent protection services, both U.S., PCT, and National Phase (Europe; Taiwan; Japan; China; others).
  • Intellectual Property (IP) counseling, including monitoring and guiding of research at the idea stage to determine avenues of patentability, marketability, licensability, and enforceability; referral of inventions to joint venturers, OEM production facilities and independent contractors for production and sale.
  • Patent surveillance services, including working with clients in monitoring infringement of patents; determining the validity and scope of third-party patents in order to provide "right of use" opinions; counseling on related legal and business options, including licensing, cross licensing, procurement of IP rights in bankruptcy arena, business formation, and liability risk management.
  • Transactional services, including, drafting and negotiating IP license agreements, as well as secrecy, joint development, consulting and indemnification agreements.
  • Business formation services, including business plan development, market research, marketing plan development, and seed financing and startup funding procurement.