Lyle Gravatt: Patents and Other Intellectual Property Basics

Lyle Gravatt

 

Attorney Lyle Gravatt joined the Forrest Firm’s Raleigh office in January of 2018, and leads the firm’s intellectual property practice.

In his new role at the firm, Lyle focuses on patents, trademarks and intellectual property licensing and agreements. His strategic perspectives and experience in a wide range of technologies allow clients to protect and monetize their intellectual property assets in coordination with their business’s goals. Lyle provides end-to-end services, from competitive intelligence and portfolio reviews to filing and prosecuting applications for building value.

Lyle joined the Forrest Firm after more than three years practicing intellectual property law in the Raleigh office of NK Patent Law, where he prepared and prosecuted patents and trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as international regulatory entities.

Lyle began his legal career at Neopatents in Raleigh, spending nearly three years providing insights to businesses using patent analytics and prosecuting patent applications across multiple industry sectors, including mechanical and medical devices, as well as applications for telecommunications, manufacturing, biotechnologies, biological processes, computer software, data analytics, and consumer products.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Wake Forest University in 2001, where he performed biophysics research. He attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor degree in 2010.

Lyle is licensed to practice law in the state of North Carolina. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association.

Education (Lyle Gravatt)

♦ J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law, 2010

♦ B.S., Physics, Wake Forest University, 2001

Contact Info:

[e] lyle.gravatt@forrestfirm.com

Twitter @lylegravatt

www.ForrestFirm.com

Lyle Gravatt: Intellectual Property

Lyle Gravatt

 

Attorney Lyle Gravatt joined the Forrest Firm’s Raleigh office in January of 2018, and leads the firm’s intellectual property practice.

In his new role at the firm, Lyle focuses on patents, trademarks and intellectual property licensing and agreements. His strategic perspectives and experience in a wide range of technologies allow clients to protect and monetize their intellectual property assets in coordination with their business’s goals. Lyle provides end-to-end services, from competitive intelligence and portfolio reviews to filing and prosecuting applications for building value.

Lyle joined the Forrest Firm after more than three years practicing intellectual property law in the Raleigh office of NK Patent Law, where he prepared and prosecuted patents and trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as international regulatory entities.

Lyle began his legal career at Neopatents in Raleigh, spending nearly three years providing insights to businesses using patent analytics and prosecuting patent applications across multiple industry sectors, including mechanical and medical devices, as well as applications for telecommunications, manufacturing, biotechnologies, biological processes, computer software, data analytics, and consumer products.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Wake Forest University in 2001, where he performed biophysics research. He attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor degree in 2010.

Lyle is licensed to practice law in the state of North Carolina. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association.

Education (Lyle Gravatt)

♦ J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law, 2010

♦ B.S., Physics, Wake Forest University, 2001

Contact Info:

[e] lyle.gravatt@forrestfirm.com

Twitter @lylegravatt

www.ForrestFirm.com

Provisional Patents with Kevin Flynn

Show Date: TBA

Topic: Provisional Patents: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Overview

Provisional patent applications can be an important option for an entrepreneur or early stage company that wants to protect an idea but is not yet fully committed to filing a non-provisional patent application (regular application).

As a provisional application is intended to support any subsequent non-provisional application, you cannot know what belongs in a provisional application unless you know how a non-provisional patent application is evaluated for completeness.  There are places where you can defer costs from a provisional application to a non-provisional application safely and there are places where skimping on detail is a fatal mistake.

About Kevin:

KeKevin Flynnvin E. Flynn is a hybrid — part engineer, part lawyer, part advocate, and part coach. For more than twenty-five years he has used all these skills to be a patent attorney for start-up companies. Initially trained in both Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, he later obtained a Master’s Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering. After working as an engineer with Duke Power and earning a Professional Engineering license from the State of North Carolina, he went back to school and earned his law degree with honors from Duke Law School. After a few years in patent litigation, including time spent with Fish & Neave in New York City, he moved to help companies protect their ideas and avoid legal problems.

With a broad engineering background, Kevin works with companies with a range of technologies but his practice has an emphasis on multidisciplinary engineering innovations including medical devices, minimally invasive surgical techniques, medical instruments, orthopedic solutions, industrial processes, and clean energy. He helps clients decide where to spend their money to get the most value while seeking patents in the United States and abroad. Then he works collaboratively with clients to create patent applications that are partly required technical disclosure and part sales pitch to get enthusiastic patent examiners. In addition to helping companies obtain protection, he works with companies to help them avoid trouble with patents owned by others.

After working at a firm that specialized in assisting start-up companies, Kevin is very comfortable working directly with CTOs and CEOs in companies that do not have in-house lawyers.

If an engineering team developed the innovation, there is a good chance that Kevin will be a right fit for navigating the innovation through the patent process.

Website: www.FLYNNipLAW.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinflynnpatentattorney/

Justia: https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/kevin-flynn-880338

Martindale-Hubbell: http://www.martindale.com/Kevin-E-Flynn/157573847-lawyer.htm

Resources:

Definition: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/provisional-patent-application.asp

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