North Star Intellectual Property Law, P.C. is a Washington, D.C.-based intellectual property law firm focused exclusively on intellectual property law protection, strategy, and enforcement. The firm serves multinational corporations, smaller domestic businesses, inventors, and organizations with United States and international interests. Attorneys bring experience from global companies, major law firms, engineering roles, research positions, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This combined legal and technical knowledge supports sophisticated innovation strategies.
North Star Intellectual Property Law, P.C. handles utility patents across electrical, mechanical, chemical, biological, biomedical, software, semiconductor, telecommunications, and medical-device technologies. The firm conducts prior-art searches, evaluates patentability, prepares applications, manages domestic and international prosecution, and handles appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Counsel also addresses licensing, technology transfers, joint development agreements, reissues, reexaminations, validity questions, and infringement opinions.
North Star Intellectual Property Law, P.C. protects product designs, brands, creative works, and commercial identities. The firm prepares and prosecutes design patent, trademark, service mark, and copyright applications in the United States and abroad. Design and trademark services include clearance searches, portfolio management, enforcement planning, trade dress advice, graphical user interface protection, and strategies addressing counterfeit products. The firm’s design patent practice is recognized among the country’s larger practices.
North Star Intellectual Property Law, P.C. represents clients in intellectual property disputes before federal courts, appellate courts, the International Trade Commission, and USPTO administrative tribunals. The firm handles patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and copyright enforcement or defense matters. Specialized groups address artificial intelligence, advanced telecommunications, quantum computing, post-grant proceedings, and interference practice. The Washington office provides access to agencies and courts central to national intellectual property policy and enforcement for clients across varied industries and markets.