When it comes to professional services in the United States, competition would be most likely next to none compared to other advanced countries. Hiring professionals in the field of Intellectual property would be no exception. Like other professionals in medical and financial services, performance and results would significantly vary depending on who to hire since only a few would qualify for your needs.

A recommended approach is to verify his or her past performance. When you hire a patent attorney who has filed none of patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), you would definitely come up with a lot of critical mistakes that might jeopardize the protection of your valuable ideas in America. I would be almost impossible for a novice patent attorney to provide expertise. The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Practices (MPEP) that cover patent laws and practices cover so many that its volume is more than 3,000 pages. You would be able to guess who to hire at this point.

Depending on specialty, lawyers are called patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, trial attorneys, immigration attorneys.  other specialized legal counsels. It might not be difficult to think that a legal counsel practicing immigration law won’t be able to keep up with ever changing patent laws. If you are an innovator seeking protection for your innovative ideas, you better avoid a patent attorney practicing bankruptcy law or immigration law. Jack of all trades, master of none.

We, IPLA P.A., are a boutique law firm practicing solely patent and trademark laws with an average yearly record of getting forty to fifty U.S. patents granted for our clients. You may check the list of totals patents issued by the USPTO and we represented for our clients since 2005.